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SUPPORT OUR MISSION Partners of Child Legacy International can be confident that their generosity creates real results. Our continued presence in rural African communities empowers the local people and strengthens their economies. We believe an investment in Child Legacy International will provide an investment in the future of Africa. TEXAS OFFICE: Support Our Mission PO Box 805 Scan this Code Boerne, TX 78006 CHILDLEGACY.ORG

resources for hope Child Legacy International Inc. is a Christian nonprofit working in Africa to transform lives and break the generational cycle of poverty and despair. We develop the key resources of reliable power, clean water, healthy food and farming, vocational training, and life-saving health care in the rural communities that need them most. Our mission is to cultivate opportunity, self-reliance and sustainability, preparing a fertile soil where hope can grow. CLI provides sustainable development to more than 120,000 rural Africans every year. our story our history Formerly known as Life Sowing Ministries, 1987 Child Legacy International first began operating in Zimbabwe, Africa, in 1987. Founded by Jeff Rogers in Chingele, Zimbabwe Founded and still directed by Jeff Rogers, CLI has made great strides to bring Chingele Children’s Home opens, opportunity to the people of Africa— providing a home-like setting and education to orphans breaking the cycle of poverty and helping people help themselves. The organization 1992 focuses on education, health care, clean The Life Sowing Training School in water, and the development of Chiredzi, Zimbabwe, begins sustainable farming. providing critical trade skills to young people Realizing that meeting immediate needs was not enough to make real lasting 1992-1999 changes, CLI designed, planned, and With Zimbabwe suffering from strategically delivered a new approach to drought and food shortages, CLI humanitarian relief work—the Sustainable implements a comprehensive feeding program, providing over Program Development Model. With a 60,000 rural people with a foundation of wind and solar energy, the nutritious meal every day for seven Sustainable Program Development Model consecutive years can be implemented in remote areas far outside national electricity grids, and it 1993 can be replicated anywhere in the world. Chingele Clinic opens, providing over the last 35 years basic medical services, labor and delivery care, and HIV/AIDS Child Legacy International has worked to build sustainable communities by providing counseling life-changing programs. By facilitating access to clean water, proper nutrition, medical care, education and training. CLI Inc empowers individuals and families with the vital 2007 resources they need so they can make a lasting impact in their communities and Second Sustainable Program change the nation as a whole. Devlepment Model site begins operations in Msundwe, Malawi education 2008 The Life Sowing Training School, our vocational training center in CLI begins repairing water wells in Zimbabwe, has graduated over villages throughout Malawi, 10,000 students, with over 80% bringing clean water to thousands retaining income-earning jobs today. 2009-2012 healthcare By developing wind and solar Since the Labor & Delivery Ward power systems in Malawi, CLI opened at our hospital in Malawi in 2015, establishes renewable energy as it has seen over 7,000 healthy births. the foundation of the Sustainable Program Development Model, agriculture & making it possible to build and aquaculture operate a hospital and many of CLI’s other services CLI operates a 500-acre farm in Malawi that uses modern irrigation and 2010 permaculture techniques, and employs nearly 100 local Malawians in planting, CLI begins irrigating and crop management and harvesting. cultivating 75 acres of land in Msundwe, using agriculture to renewable energy provide food, sustainability, education and dozens of jobs In Malawi, wind and solar power electrifies CLI’s on-site clinic, 2012 hospital, and surgical wards, as well as staff housing, guest quarters, CLI Hospital in Msundwe opens, indoor plumbing and hot water tanks. providing free medical care to meet a wide range of needs—from clean water vaccinations to surgeries CLI teams are repairing wells in 2012-2016 Malawi at a rate of 1 per day. CLI collaborates with researchers from Ohio State University to conduct community-based health research in Malawi that provides baseline data for health care policy and services 2015 CLI Hospital in Msundwe opens Labor & Delivery Ward 2019-2020 CLI plants 8,000 macadamia trees in Msundwe, along with bamboo and coffee plants, laying the groundwork for new agricultural markets 2022 CLI establishes Moyo Goods, a new business that will better commercialize the harvests of the Malawi site and provide a sustainable funding stream for the CLI Hospital