Women & Youth Skills Development Program, Botswana, Africa, to provide seed money to secure an office and training space in the capital city, Gaborone, for this new initiative by the Anglican Women's Fellowship which will work with high school and college dropouts with HIV/AIDS, providing counseling and mentoring in the areas of job development and money management as well as parenting skills, nutrition, and health and hygiene. Meets Goals 1 & 3. (Requested by Lisa Towle, president of the Episcopal Church Women of the Diocese of NC, on behalf of the Botswana Companion Diocese program).
The Esther Sewing Project, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, to purchase equipment (electric and specialty sewing machines plus lockable cabinets in which to store them) as well as supplies (fabric and thread) for an on-going effort by the women of All Saints Anglican Church to produce a more diverse array of goods for sale. Meets Goals 1 & 3. (Requested by St. Alban's, Davidson)
Honduras Health Mission, Choluteca Region in the Southern Highlands, to focus on the continuing education of local health promoters by training them in matters related to flouride treatment for teeth, women's health, as well as CPR and choking. Meets Goals 4, 5, 6, & 8. (Requested by St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Durham)
KARIMU, Diocese of Central Tanganyika, Tanzania, Africa, to pay for the continuation of classes and instructional material for the Women's Development and Education Project, whose goal is to educate the wives of students at Msalato Theological College. These women, who with their priest-husbands will become leaders in their villages and beyond, are learning to speak English and working to educate themselves beyond the primary level. Meets Goal 3. (Requested by the Rev. Talmage G. Bandy & Jessie Stuart Mackay of the Sandhills Convocation)
Bromley Episcopal Mission School, Montserrado County, Liberia, Africa, to help fund the rehabilitation and expansion of an oil palm farming project so that ultimately the environment is treated more kindly, more people are employed, and more profit is returned to programs at the school, which is for girls as well as boys. Meets Goals 1, 2 & 3 (Requested by St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Durham)
Chiapas Project, Chiapas, Mexico, to pay for health materials, manuals and workshops for the training of healthcare promoters and providers working in a far-flung and poor region populated by Maya Indians who must find healthcare in small, rural clinics or one, understaffed charter hospital. This training, done in partnership with Wake Forest University in North Carolina, will focus on maternal and child health, and infectious disease. Meets Goals 3, 4, 5 & 6. (Requested by St. Anne's Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem)
NetsforLife Campaign, Diocese of North Carolina, to jump start the giving to this program to combat malaria in sub-Saharan Africa by first educating the people of the diocese about the disease then raising enough money in parishes, schools and ministries to purchase 40,000 treated mosquito nets for distribution in Africa. The Millennium Development Goals Committee of the diocese is a partner with Episcopal Relief and Development in this year-long (2011-2012) effort. Touches on all of the MDGs but most particularly addresses Goals 4, 5 & 6. (Proposed and approved by the MDG Committee)
Konbit Sante, Cap-Haitien, Haiti, to help fund a community-wide campaign to stop the spread of cholera by educating people about the disease and establishing cholera prevention and early intervention stations where water disinfection tablets, chlorine, water buckets, hand soap, and oral rehydration solution will be distributed. Meets Goal 6. (Requested by Diane Steinhaus on behalf of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Family, Chapel Hill)
Hospital Albert Schweitzer, Artibonite Valley in central Haiti, to hire extra personnel at the 100-bed hospital to first help address the immediate cholera epidemic, which followed a devastating earthquake, and then institute programs to curb the spread of the disease. Meets Goal 6. (Requested by Margaret McCann of St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Durham)
