Projects Funded in 2005

• Guesthouse Profits Help AIDS Orphans
• Basic Healthcare Reaches Remote Myanmarese
• Building Leaders Among Unreached Chinese
• Remote Villagers Learn Livelihood Skills in Malaysia
• Training and New Well Help Malawians Avoid Famine
• AIDS Prevention and Job Skills for Ugandan Youth
• Ugandan Diocese Expands Support for AIDS Orphans
• HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care in Rural Ghana
• Poor Brazilian Children Gain Hope for the Future
• Preventing the Spread of Malaria in Ethiopia
• Microloans Help to Break Cycle of Poverty in Peru
• Kenyan Christians Provide Safe Water and Famine Relief
• Tanzanian Church Helps Famine Victims
• Sudanese Believers Boost Food Supplies
• School for Christian Survivors in Indonesia
• Poultry Farm Boosts Income and Shares the Word in Togo
• Christian Hospital Treats Underserved Egyptians
• AIDS Prevention and Improved Health in Nigeria
• Rural Indians Gain Health Education, Medical Care
• Clean Water, AIDS Testing, and Salvation for Kenyans

Guesthouse Profits Help AIDS Orphans
ID: 1-I7US-0505
Amount: $39,333
Implementor: Anglican Diocese of Central Zambia

The collapse of the copper mining industry has left Zambia’s economy in shambles. Nearly one in five adults is HIV-positive and the ranks of AIDS orphans are growing. Meanwhile the coffers of the Anglican Diocese of Central Zambia are diminishing. To generate its own funds, the diocese is building a guesthouse and will use profits to expand a program to keep 985 orphans in school and ensure they have adequate healthcare. The enterprise will enable the diocese to support its programs for the long-term, without depending on external contributions. This project enables the church to step forward and help some of the world’s most vulnerable children - African AIDS orphans - by establishing practical and sustainable support.

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Basic Healthcare Reaches Remote Myanmarese
ID: 1-GZUA-0405
Amount: $38,000
Implementor: The United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (USPG)

Formerly known as Burma, Myanmar is a nation blessed with precious jewels, oil and teak forests. Yet, despite its natural abundance, many of its people are economically poor, malnourished and sick, driven from their homes or isolated by protracted political turmoil. This effort in the remote Anglican dioceses of Sittwe and Toungoo builds on an earlier project by training an additional 110 community healthcare workers who will treat 55,000 villagers and advise them on preventive care and nutrition. In addition, two medical dispensaries will be stocked with pharmaceuticals and supplies and 5,192 people will benefit from plastic toilet pans and mosquito netting that will stop the spread of disease.

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The Hani in China are one of the world’s least-reached people groups. They live in small, impoverished villages along remote mountain ranges. Most Hani are illiterate and the Bible has never been translated into their language. Hani who become Christians face persecution. This project builds on successful training of 300 local Christian leaders to share the Gospel by building effective home-church ministries and planting about 80 house churches. The project also translates 50 Bible stories and 30 songs into Hani. The project prepares the Hani to take responsibility for their churches, reducing the need for foreign missionaries and outside funding. This grant will result in an estimated 800 people coming to Christ.

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Remote Villagers Learn Livelihood Skills in Malaysia
ID: 1-GK5K-0405
Amount: $20,390
Implementer: Anglican Village Ministries

Embattled for control over forest resources and facing abject poverty, the marginalized Orang Asli people subsist as hunters and gatherers in rural Malaysia. They lack skills in farming, animal husbandry or business. They cannot easily participate in their society’s push toward economic development. This project equips 120 Asli household heads and their family members with skills to become self-sufficient through small businesses. Participants also will receive medical aid and 100 preschool age children will learn to read and write. About 150 Asli will come to know Christ more deeply.

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Frequent food shortages debilitate impoverished rural families in Malawi, where half of children younger than 5 suffer from protein deficiencies. Families struggle with inadequate farming techniques, while a lack of clean water increases their chances of contracting easily preventable diseases. This project trains 224 farmers in modern agricultural techniques, improving food supplies and nutrition for a total of 2,240 people. A new borehole well will bring clean, safe water to 1,000 people, further improving health conditions and reducing the time villagers take to fetch river water.

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While Uganda has had success fighting HIV/AIDS in recent years, many orphans, vulnerable children and infected people still desperately need help. Poor health and lack of job skills trap them in a cycle of severe poverty. In this project, Kyangyenyi Parish - part of the Anglican Church of Uganda’s West Ankole Diocese in Bushenyi - expands its ministry to provide children with vocational training and HIV/AIDS prevention and care services. As a result, 1,500 people will receive HIV/AIDS counseling and testing, 950 family members will benefit from higher household income after 190 youth learn vocational skills and find jobs. In addition, 423 people will adopt healthy behaviors to avoid contracting the disease; at least 300 people will come to Christ and join discipleship groups. More than 200 church members will begin visiting and supporting families affected by HIV/AIDS and more than 200 infected people will receive counseling and care.

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Uganda, one of the African nations hit earliest and hardest by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, suffers from the consequences of years of economic instability and civil war. While the country has successfully battled the disease and countered rising prevalence rates, rural villages dependent on subsistence farming still lack viable healthcare and social services. In this project, North Kigezi Diocese in southwestern Uganda addresses the needs of hundreds of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS and war. This grant will result in 1,500 people benefiting from higher household income, 600 orphans and 240 of their guardians learning to raise livestock, 600 orphans improving their academic performance and coping and social skills, 126 church and community leaders and trainers supporting families with AIDS orphans and an estimated 435 adults and children coming to Christ and being discipled in church-based fellowship groups.

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Despite its natural resources, Ghana is heavily dependent on international aid and more than 60 percent of its people depend on subsistence farming. The government and community-based organizations have boosted awareness about HIV/AIDS, but these efforts have not translated into widespread behavioral change. In addition, rural communities in western Ghana lack adequate social and health services to fight the disease and stigma surrounding it. This project mobilizes Anglican church leaders, youth, and other community members to join the fight in halting the spread of HIV/AIDS. This grant will result in 7,500 people learning about the risks of the disease, 4,000 youth committing to premarital sexual abstinence, 400 adults committing to one sexual partner, and 150 people being tested.

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Thousands of people live in the garbage dumps of Brazil’s northern city of Olinda and subsist on food they find there. Children cannot attend school because they must sort through waste to earn income for their families. Living Water Anglican Parish will educate dump workers and residents about health, the Gospel and life skills. By renovating its church building and establishing more services, the church will be able to help 200 children participate in educational programs and improve their life skills, 300 residents experience improved health, 200 people strengthen family relationships, and 95 people grow in faith. This holistic, church-based project reaches the neediest residents of Olinda and the indigenous leadership ensures that this project will meet the strongest local needs.

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Though malaria is medically treatable, it kills tens of thousands of Ethiopians each year because they lack adequate healthcare. Meanwhile, erratic weather patterns and other factors have caused an increase in malaria in this region. St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, will partner with a training agency to host seminars for 120 women on preventing the spread of malaria and treating the disease with herbal medicines; these women will also receive insecticide-treated mosquito nets. 5,000 people will learn malaria prevention techniques as each of the newly trained women passes on her knowledge to approximately 40 people. This project, by an international congregation of expatriates living and working in Addis Ababa and surrounding areas, focuses on one of the most pressing needs in Ethiopia, the need to help people improve their health and prevent the further spread of malaria.

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In Peru, the Anglican Church provides many social programs. Due to financial instability, however, families continue to live in poverty and social isolation. A few local programs are providing people with microloans to begin or improve businesses, but the Anglican Church in Peru is the only organization also providing training and other services to help people escape cycles of poverty. In this project, the church works in association with the Ecumenical Church Loan Fund to help 200 families receive microloans to expand their businesses. An estimated 400 people take steps toward Christ by joining a church or taking part in discipleship training.

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Severe drought since 2004 has led to famine in many parts of Kenya. The Anglican Church of Kenya will provide potable water to thousands of people affected by famine in West Pokot and Baringo districts and give supplementary food to 1,050 malnourished children.

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Food stocks have dwindled in Tanzania as a result of drought. The Anglican Church of Tanzania, Tabora Diocese, will help starving families through this period by providing them with emergency food relief. This food will enable children to return to school instead of spending their days searching for sources of nourishment or working to pay for food.

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After years of war, southern Sudanese are struggling to secure adequate food supplies. Meanwhile, the Church has faced oppression and many people have fled to neighboring nations. The goal of this project is to rebuild the Church and the capacity of Sudanese in this region. ACMA, part of the Episcopal Church of Sudan, is training 3,400 people to improve crop yields and nutrition. In addition, 125 orphans and children separated from their parents due to war will benefit from improved health and literacy skills.

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The island of Nias where the project is located has a large Christian population. LHS is constructing a school that will serve 220 students from Kindergarten to sixth grade and will reach parents, families and the entire community with preventive adult education and counseling programs. Church planted with an estimated 40 members.

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One-quarter of Togo’s people practice voodoo and tribal religions and another one-quarter are Muslim. Although one-half of the population is Christian, the rate of conversion to Islam is growing. Many Togolese have yet to hear the Good News of Jesus Christ. In response, AMT is starting a poultry farm to sell eggs to women at reduce rates, who will then resell them at a profit. The income will raise the standard of living for 200 women and 1,200 of their family members as they buy more and better food and medicine and pay school fees for their children. Through AMT, an estimated 175 of the women will have opportunities to learn about the Gospel.

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For over 100 years, the Episcopal Church of Egypt has provided quality healthcare services regardless of patients’ religion or economic status. Local leaders have invited the church to establish a new hospital in the fast-growing industrial city of Sadaat. It will treat 20,000 people yearly, deliver hundreds of babies and provide preventive health education, Christian healthcare providers will share the Gospel in this Muslim region.

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Nigeria, African’s most populous country, faces disaster if the spread of HIV/AIDS is not halted. In 2001 at least 3.2 million Nigerians had AIDS and 1.8 million children had been orphaned. Through four general medical care clinics, GHADS has been a significant, committed source in the struggle against HIV/AIDS. In this project, GHADS will renovate two rural clinics and add lab facilities. 5,000 people will receive HIB/AIDS testing and Counseling: 1,000 women will learn basic health care, hygiene methods, and prenatal care to better care for their families and reduce the infant mortality.

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India is home to one-third of the worlds economically poor. Memorial Hospital is a proven Gospel witness in this Muslim-dominated community by bringing medical care and health education to the poorest of the poor living in squalid conditions. This project will provide healthcare for 9,660 villagers through health awareness camps and centers and will vaccinate 1,500 children. It will establish four new community health centers, also training 10 community health coordinators, and will upgrade six health centers in 10 villages. While 5,000 women receive direct assistance during childbirth from 50 trained midwives, 4,000 people will increase their awareness regarding health and lifestyle issues.

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In Kenya’s drought-plagued Machakos Diocese impoverished families lack clean water, resulting in waterborne diseases and failing crops. Inadequate information about farming techniques and HIV/AIDS compound their problems. This grant enables the diocese to construct community wells, improving healthcare of 18,000 people. About 1,800 heads of households will learn water management and small-scale farming skills to increase income and improve nutrition for their families. 1,300 people will receive HIV/AIDS education, and 140 will seek counseling and testing. The diocese will share the Good News and lead an estimated 270 people to Christ as it educates.

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