Microcredit to 160 individual businesses ($4,425 yet to be funded, out of a total of $7,425) and to 219 farmers for maize seed and fertilizer ($7,800). See Microcredit.
Miscellaneous
- onsite visit by 2 KEF board members from California, for 3 weeks, September 2008; a similar visit planned for 2009 (at no cost to KEF).

- 4,000 used textbooks collected then shipped by Friends of Malawi (at no cost to KEF).

- 317 uniforms provided for orphans and impoverished students ($1,300).

- organization put in place at the village level: KEF Committee Coordinator acting as liaison with the KEF Board of Directors.