October Giving Month: Carrying Hope Forward to Africa

🎁 Double Your Impact This October: Help MACONA Deliver Hope to Africa

Dear MACONA Family,

October is the Month of Giving, and you’ve already set generosity in motion. This month, five bags packed with food, medicine, clothing — and one incredible tech box thanks to the Microsoft Philantrophy programs — are on their way from the U.S. to women and children in West Africa in this October Giving Month.
Let’s take a look at the journey your support made possible:

📍 Where the Journey Began

MACONA trackers show real-time movement from Philadelphia to Port of Philadelphia shipping terminals.

MACONA Trackers in shipment containers in Philadelphia enroute to West Africa

MACONA Zulu in shipment containers in Philadelphia enroute to West Africa with needed supplies for Women and Children in need

Two trackers show parcels leaving Philadelphia.
Four more bags were dispatched from Baltimore’s shipping terminals, each one packed with food, medicine, and MACONA’s signature care kits.
Our real-time tracking confirms what we already knew: hope is in motion.

💻 Tech Tools for Education & Empowerment

Thanks to Microsoft Philantrophy Programs, we’re sending:

💻 20 laptops
✍️ 10 styluses
🔌 Wireless accessories
📁 USB drives with educational content

Couriers picking up Computers donated to ship to West Africa for women and children in need

These tools will empower:

🧑🏾‍💻 Mothers re-entering the workforce
📚 Classrooms across underserved regions
👧🏽 Children eager to learn beyond textbooks

🧡 Powered by Community Generosity

This campaign was fueled by kindness:

👕 Neighbors near MACONA HQ dropped off clothes and early readers
💸 Tech conference attendees gave cash and clothing
🥫 One family sent shelf-stable groceries and first aid kits
🙌 YOU made it happen

This shipment reflects the hands and hearts of so many:

Donations of Clothes, Shoes, Toys, and Books to MACONA

MACONA volunteers and CEO sorting, packing, and getting shipment ready for to drive to Philadelphia

MACONA tracker 4 packages of donations in Port of Baltimore

MACONA 4 trackers actively tracking your precisous donations as it travels to the women and children in need.

🚀 October: The Month of Giving

Your support doesn’t stop at packing. With corporate matching programs like Benevity and others, your donation can go twice — even three times — as far. If you or your company uses a workplace giving portal, now’s the time: