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What We Do
These are our projects which were
funded in 2007, 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.
Increased
Income and Improved Living Conditions for Burundians
ID: 1-13XL6-1006
Amount: $51,100
Implementor: Diocese
of Makamba, Anglican
Church of Burundi
In war-scarred and poverty-stricken Burundi, women
and girls spend hours a day processing cassava and corn
by hand or walking many miles to grinding mills. Farmers
in remote areas are often forced to sell their crops
at low prices because they lack efficient means to process
them. With this project, the Diocese of Makamba will
install 20 grinding mills in remote areas of Makamba
province, improving the living conditions of tens of
thousands of people. $51,100
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Empowering
Ugandans to Halt the Spread of HIV
ID: 1-13MPC-1006
Amount: $35,000
Implementor: Central
Buganda Diocese, Anglican
Church of Uganda
The spread of HIV in Uganda’s Central Buganda
Diocese has been fueled by misconceptions, poverty and
limited access to food and clean water. This project
brings HIV prevention education through evangelism,
as well as cleans water and food security, to those
in need. Beneficiaries will improve school attendance
and achievement, improve household nutrition and income
and revitalize the community’s commitment to a
Christian way of life.
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Congolese
Women Learn Skills to Support Their Families
ID: 1-13PIW-1006
Amount: $42,056
Implementor: Diocese
of Kisangani, Congo
Between 1996 and 2004, Eastern Congo’s Oriental
province suffered as 3.5 million Congolese died as a
result of war, famine and disease; another 1.8 million
were internally displaced and more than 300,000 refugees
fled to surrounding countries. Since a peace accord
was signed and a transitional government was installed,
thousands of people have started to return, but women
and children have been left vulnerable. This grant enables
widows and single mothers to start income-generating
projects so they can raise living standards for their
loved ones.
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Malaria Education and Netting
for Kenyan Mothers and Children
ID: 1-107V8-1006
Amount: $32,050
Implementor: Diocese
of Maseno, Kenya
Malaria is a top cause of illness and death in rural
Siaya, Kenya. This grant enables the diocese to educate
thousands of pregnant women, nursing mothers, and students
about malaria prevention techniques and distribute insecticide-treated
mosquito nets. As a result, illnesses during pregnancy
and miscarriages will be reduced. Children will be able
to attend school more often due to improved health and
the child mortality rate will drop.
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Sudanese
Clergy Get Training in Discipleship and Evangelism
ID: 1-ZRYP-0706
Amount: $55,100
Implementor: Carlile
College, Church
Army Africa, Kenya
Christianity is blossoming in Southern Sudan, but the
proportion of educated church leaders is not keeping
pace. Carlile College, part of Nairobi, Kenya-based
Church Army Africa, has developed training materials
for eight clergy in a local context, taking into consideration
environment, language and culture. Training focuses
on holistic discipleship strategy and the hands-on experience
of the eight students during their four years of the
program will spread exponentially throughout the region’s
churches.
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Sierra
Leonean Students Receive a Vocational Education
ID: 1-VN7M-0906
Amount: $69,866
Implementor: Bo
Anglican Diocese, Sierra Leone
In Bo, Sierra Leone’s second-largest city, demand
for education is rising and competition for the few
secondary school slots forces many students to drop
out after primary school. Through this project, vocational
skills training will keep students off the streets and
give them marketable skills they can use to support
themselves.
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Reconciling
Refugees in Sudan With Farming and HIV Prevention
ID: 1-NW4L-0906
Amount: $54,400
Implementor: Episcopal
Church of Sudan (ECS) Sudan
In poverty-stricken Southern Sudan, the confluence
of returning refugees and ex-fighters with the raging
fight against HIV means Sudanese must address immediate
as well as long-term concerns. This grant enables Maridi
diocese leaders to encourage people toward peace and
reconciliation, while helping with resettlement, restored
farming capabilities and HIV prevention.
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New
Churches and Bible Study for Flood-Ravaged Argentines
ID: 1-1045Y-0906
Amount: $56,400
Implementor: Anglican
Diocese of Northern Argentina, Argentina
Floods in early 2006 displaced 10 communities of northern
Argentina’s indigenous Wichi people, destroying
their homes and church buildings. This project builds
and furnishes 10 churches, replaces lost Bibles and
provides materials and equipment for outreach and discipleship.
Hundreds of youth and adults will receive discipleship
training and many will come to Christ.
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Malawian
Farmers Learn to Make Better Use of Their Land
ID: 1-1062C-0906
Amount: $31,448
Implementor: Anglican
Diocese of Northern Malawi, Malawi
Malawi has some of the worst food shortages and malnutrition
problems in sub-Saharan Africa, with 55% of rural people
suffering chronic food shortages and only 14% having
adequate food supplies. Drought and other environmental
and economic factors are making impoverished farmers
even poorer. At the Chiwowa Chisala Agricultural Demonstration
Training Center, ADNM teaches farmers to use basic technology
and small-scale, local approaches to improve land management
and water systems to boost agricultural output.
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Free HIV Tests for Rural Tanzanians
ID: 1-LVKZ
Amount: $21,100
Implementor:
St. Luke’s Dispensary
Despite high HIV infection rates, impoverished, rural
residents of Mpwapwa, Tanzania, lack access to counseling
and testing services due to costs and questions about
confidentiality through government agencies. This project
enables residents to learn how to avoid contracting
or spreading the disease, while enabling families to
care for their infected loved ones. The Anglican Church
is strategically positioned to help in this role due
to its presence in villages and its ability to provide
hope to people dying from AIDS. 1,480 people will be
impacted through this project.
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Churches Reach Out to Help
Poor, Pregnant Brazilian Women
ID: 1-103XU
Amount: $56,910
Holy Spirit Anglican Parish
Many young, pregnant women of Recife and Jaboatao dos
Guararapes and their families are spiritually poor and
live in unhealthy conditions. Many have little enthusiasm
about giving birth and consider abortion an option to
pregnancy. Holy Spirit Anglican Parish will expand its
evangelical and social mission to poor pregnant women
and their families, working through Hope Anglican Mission,
Betel Mission, and Saint Paul Parish, all affiliated
with the Anglican Diocese of Recife. This outreach program
focuses on prenatal care, dental care, and better family
relationships. In addition, this program will encourage
Bible studies that can draw the family together and
closer to Christ. 720 people will be impacted, some
in multiple ways.
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AIDS Education for Ugandans
ID: 1-NVDD
Amount: $34,500
Diocese
of Kinkizi
Because AIDS is believed to be a curse in many parts
of Uganda, educating people about the disease is a challenge.
The Diocese of Kinkizi seeks to fight the virus by building
on the organization’s successful adolescent sexual
and reproductive health program and by encouraging all
people to seek HIV counseling and testing. Volunteers
are mobilized and trained to counsel and care for people
living with AIDS, while community care aides and peer
educators are equipped to provide HIV education. The
program design and plan matches the needs of the area
and the project leader has a skilled team to implement
the project. 11,270 people will be impacted, some in
multiple ways.
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Drought-Prone Tanzanians Receive
Needed Water and Food Relief
ID: 1-XZAN
Amount: $79,210
The
Anglican Diocese of Tabora
In drought-prone regions of Tanzania, the Anglican
Diocese of Tabora is involved in various community development
projects focusing on water, health, environmental sanitation,
environmental conservation and relief services. These
programs are implemented at the grass-roots level and
serve marginalized, economically impoverished people.
This project is a follow-up project to the relief project
funded by ARDF in April 2006 and will mitigate a variety
of food-security threats and bring measurable, sustainable
results. Clean water and improved hygiene practices
will prevent debilitating and deadly diseases. Access
to water also establishes stable communities where people
can settle and contribute to local development. As people
learn proper techniques for managing soil and livestock,
cattle and poultry will be healthier, nutritional value
of food sources will increase and people’s health
will improve. The Diocese of Tabora will bring a holistic
program to rural areas that have not received much support
from the government. Through this project 9,500 people
will be impacted, some in multiple ways. .
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Diocese Provides Daycare for
Brazilian Children and Families
ID: 1-X14Q
Amount: $66,000
Implementor:
Anglican
Diocese of Recife
Two parish daycare centers have been operating in Olinda
and Recife, Brazil, under the auspices of the Diocese
of Recife, for more than 20 years, but without a systematic
plan to help families. People in these two cities are
poor and fall prey to the physical and emotional problems
associated with poverty. Few organizations are trying
to meet the need for daycare because it is an expensive
proposition, yet it is essential for children to have
a place to be cared for so their parents can earn money,
and in these two poor cities there is a waiting list
of daycare services. This project expands daycare opportunities
for young children and helps families reduce conflict
and violence toward children through spiritual counseling
and improved economic conditions. 572 people will be
impacted, some in multiple ways.
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Raising Up Lay Leaders From
Throughout India
ID: 1-107QO
Amount: $41,139
Scripture Applied Leadership Training (SALT) Institute
The growing number of Indian Christians has resulted
in a serious shortage of trained leaders capable of
instructing believers in doctrine, leading Bible studies,
and being effective Gospel witnesses to the unchurched
and those of other faiths. This grant enables SALT Institute
(affiliated with the Church of South India) to construct
and operate a hostel to serve as a residential training
facility. The training will involve a month-long residential
program that equips church leaders from throughout India
to return to their home churches and raise up lay leaders.
After the funding period, about 1,000 trainers and lay
leaders will benefit from this program annually.
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