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What We Do
These are our projects which were
funded in 2006, and are now underway. If you wish to
learn more about how to support this year's projects,
please visit our "Invest"
section.
Please consider investing
in our work. Thank you.
Kenyan Christians
Provide Safe Water and Famine Relief
ID: 1-SZWV
Amount: $70,000
Implementor: Anglican
Church of Kenya
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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Tanzanian
Church Helps Famine Victims
ID: 1-UD2Z
Amount: $65,655
Implementor: Tabora
Diocese, Anglican Church of Tanzania
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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Reducing
Substance Abuse in Kenya
ID: 1-UHM7
Amount: $25,450
Implementor: Substance Abuse Rehabilitation and HIV/AIDS
Network (SARAH Network)
Drug and alcohol abuse is growing rapidly in Kenya,
with youth the most vulnerable. SARAH Network will provide
training in substance abuse prevention for teachers,
church leaders, and prison and probation officers. A
range of tactics will be used, including education,
helping addicts quit, supporting addicts’ families,
and sharing the Word of God. This broad, wide-ranging
strategy confronts the complex problem of substance
abuse, which one Kenyan expert calls a disaster worse
than HIV/AIDS and famine combined. An estimated 3,850
people will be impacted, some in multiple ways.
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Rwandan
Widows Earn a Living
ID: 1-SHEK
Amount: $68,273
Implementor: Kigeme
Diocese of the Eglise Episcopale au Rwanda (Episcopal
Church of Rwanda)
The Rwandan genocide of 1994 resulted in the deaths
of up to 1 million people. People are struggling to
survive after losing family members, animals, and sources
of income. Most households are headed by women and orphans
who lack basic necessities like food and clothing. As
a region, Gikongoro province has very poor soil and
farmers don’t have the farm animals that would
provide manure and improve the soil to fight hunger
and poverty. This indigenous, church based project gives
families opportunities to improve their incomes and
earn a living from the land. It teaches them to use
agriculture and credit to fight hunger and poverty at
the grassroots level through the lending of farm animals
that produce manure and the receipt of loans and training
that can be used to start businesses. 4,596 people will
be impacted.
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Center Serves
Needy Egyptians
ID: 1-TQZV
Amount: $44,740
Implementor: The
Episcopal Diocese of Egypt
Just outside Alexandria on Egypt’s Mediterranean
coast, the suburb of Ras El Souda is experiencing unprecedented
growth. But while construction is booming, many residents
remain mired in poverty. Intervening now can help steer
this rapidly growing, but impoverished, community toward
positive development that benefits all residents. This
diocesan-based project will help to equip a new community
center that will allow the diocese to expand programs
in adult literacy, childhood education, after-school
tutoring, health awareness, and healthcare provisions.
1,934 people will be impacted, some in multiple ways.
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Training
Church Leaders in Sudan
ID: 1-SZYW
Amount: $23,508
Implementor: Good
Shepherd Leadership Training Center
The Church in southern Sudan is in desperate need of
knowledgeable and skilled church leaders. The Good Shepherd
Leadership Training Center will organize training sessions
for hundreds of local church leaders and women and youth
in southern Sudan and northern Kenya. Sudanese pastors
take short courses there in leadership skills, pastoral
counseling, and theological studies, taught by the faculty
of Christian universities in Africa as well as by visiting
teams from the United States.
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Micro loans
for Indians in Slums
ID: 1-UGMP
Amount: $34,711
Implementor: Mar
Thoma Social Action (MTSA)
Teeming humanity in appallingly squalid conditions
throughout the urban communities in New Delhi, India
makes for some of the densest and most overwhelming
poverty in the world. The situation is made worse by
an ever increasing number of economically destitute
people from India’s rural areas arriving in the
city daily. MTSA is the social institution of the Mar
Thoma Church, a church whose roots are founded in Anglicanism
and who is in full communion with the Church of North
India and the Church of South India. Despite local law
that prohibits public evangelism, MTSA has taken a vested
interest in the lives of the people in these communities
and is committed to spreading the Good News of Christ
through their actions. Through past experiences, MTSA
has implemented various interventions, including microfinance
programs in which beneficiaries are allowed to help
themselves. This program is targeting specific slums
and equipping women with micro loans and skills training
to start income-generating activities to take ownership
of their future. An estimated, 1,000 people will be
impacted, some in multiple ways.
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Bible Studies
for Egyptian Youth
ID: 1-PQ3K
Amount: $56,000
Implementor: WORDirect
(Gospel Light Worldwide)
Christ-centered Bible instruction in the form of a
first-ever standardized religious education curriculum
is being introduced to thousands of Anglican Church
and Coptic Orthodox children in Egypt. This initiative,
which has the endorsement and financial support of both
the Anglican and Coptic church leadership, has the potential
to bring renewal among Christians in the country by
strategically serving the next generation of believers.
It also provides an opportunity for these two churches
to work together in a country that is predominantly
Muslim. This program, in conjunction with the support
of the Anglican and Coptic churches, supports the development
and publishing of student books, teacher material, and
teacher training in a curriculum that has been widely
praised and used in other parts of the world. An estimated
6,047 people will be impacted.
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Holistic
Ministry Center Serves Rural Pakistanis
ID: 1-OAE4
Amount: $16,750
Implementor: Diocese
of Hyderabad, Pakistan
The Diocese of Hyderabad will create a holistic outreach
center to share the Gospel and build a community of
believers. It will strengthen the local church and create
a long-term development effort in this region. This
project is based upon other holistic ministries the
Diocese has successfully completed in similar circumstances.
The outreach center will become a permanent base of
operations for community development, providing rural
people with education and access to medical care. An
estimated 250 people Will be impacted, some in multiple
ways.
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Bolstering
Christian Missions in Kenya
ID: 1-P3EJ
Amount: $18,500
Implementor: Anglican
Church of Kenya
While the Christian Church in Northern Kenya is growing,
clergy, missionaries, and other Christian leaders lack
adequate training for helping others grow in their faith.
Young people face difficult life circumstances and lack
guidance and support. Through this initiative, ACK will
provide local leaders with training and organized opportunities
to reach out to other community members and youth with
forums to learn more about the Gospel and wise decision
making. ACK uses a proven approach to training local
evangelists and clergy to reach people in remote areas
of Northern Kenya with a locals-reaching-locals method,
as the region remains a difficult place for foreign
missionaries to earn trust and rapport.
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Rescuing Starving Burundians
ID: 1-114EE
Amount:$42,219
Diocese
of Muyinga, Anglican Church, Burundi
Severe drought in Burundi during 2005 and 2006 has brought
about an emergency famine that killed hundreds and affected
many thousands of people. The famine is famine that
killed hundreds and affected many thousands of people.
The famine is made worse by an ongoing refugee crisis
and a steady repatriation plan, resulting in more people
coming back to ravaged lands. The Diocese of Muyinga,
backed by the Anglican Church in Burundi, seeks to directly
alleviate starvation and disease in the parts of Burundi
worst hit by the drought, through food and spiritual
relief. The Anglican Church has a track record of implementing
relief projects in Burundi since the civil war broke
out in 1994. This project will expand a program to intervene
in food relief efforts, resulting I immediate health
and nutritional benefits to 5,000 people.
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Tanzanian Farmers Earn Income
ID: 1-SL9V
Amount: $47,900
Anglican
Diocese of Western Tanganyika
In Tanzania’s least-developed and second-poorest
region, this grant enables the church to expand its
program of providing high-yield beans and dairy cows,
so people in farm families can take steps toward meeting
their basic needs and becoming self-reliant. As beneficiaries
repay in like-kind, the organization passes on the resources
to additional families, transforming lives for years.
4,160 people will be impacted, some in multiple ways.
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