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NEW ORLEANS —
The Presbyterian Committee on the
Self-Development of People (SDOP) has approved grants totaling
$400,980 to 24 self-help projects in the United States and around
the world.
The money is from the One Great Hour of Sharing offering.
The national SDOP, which met here Jan. 23-24, enables members
and non-members of the Presbyterian Church (USA) to form partnerships
with oppressed and disadvantaged people in order to help them
achieve self-sufficiency.
The projects and grants:
- American United Forces, Sioux City, IA, $20,000 to an immigrants’
co-op that makes and sells a range of products.
- Grass Roots Organizing (GRO), Mexico, MO, $35,000 to support
a group that advocates for equal access to basic healthcare
without regard to ability to pay.
- Valley Transportation, Valley, NE, $32,100 to a non-profit
co-op that provides transportation for elderly and disabled
people.
- Empower Women To Be Self-Sufficient, Raices Latinas, Holyoke,
MA, $35,000 to a group that provides training, education and
guidance to low-income Latino women.
- Excalaber Cards Development Group, Roxbury, MA, $20,000 to
a greeting-card business operated by 10 former prison inmates.
- Food Not Bombs, Rochester, NY, $25,000 to improve food-handling
and storage facilities and educational and recreational space
for a project that aids the poor and oppressed.
- Citizens For A Better Greenville, Greenville, MS, $15,000
to a group that helps low-income people address their problems
through political and economic action.
- The Northside Neighborhood Council, Palatka, FL, $17,655 to
provide training and seed grants to low-income business people
in minority communities.
- The Southside Community Center, Lancaster, SC, $14,000 to
be used to buy and renovate a building for use as a community
center for low-income people, especially single parents and
seniors.
- The Parents of Children’s World, Laurinburg, NC, $9,000
to help a multicultural group of low-income parents correct
plumbing problems at a preschool/daycare facility.
- The Women’s Collective, San Francisco, CA, $15,000 to
provide training in social skills, safety and “job-survival
English” to low-income Latino women.
- Casa del Pueblo Cooperative, Los Angeles, CA, $20,000 to a
group of unemployed and low-income immigrants that operates
a health-products store.
- Rio Bravo Residents Association, Albuquerque, NM, $15,000
to help low-income residents organize to improve housing conditions.
- The Bakersfield Performing Arts and Philanthropic Society,
Bakersfield, CA, $19,575 to a collective of 27 performing artists.
- Fruit Farmer, Rio Chico Andino, Machanchaca, Huaura, Peru,
$16,800 to irrigate orchards controlled by a cooperative of
80 farmers.
- Femme Debout (Standing Woman), Masina, Kinshasa, Congo, $16,500
to help pay for a flour mill where Congolese women can grind
and store their own maize, manioc and soya and work toward self-sustenance.
- ACEN Widows Concern (ACW), Apac, Uganda, $9,130 to help a
subsistence-farming organization of widows and young people
improve a goat-raising operation.
- Kinshasa Pig Farm Association, Kinshasa, Congo, $9,120 to
help buy 800 square meters of land and build a complex of pig
pens.
- Indira Mahila Self Help Group, Cuddapah District, India, $8,945
to a group of women who break up stone and make gravel for sale
to builders.
- Christians Together Against Poverty (CRECOP), Kinshasa, Congo,
$12,170 to a cooperative that produces chickens and eggs.
- Sewing Project, Young Orphans, Khartoum, Sudan, $6,600 to
be used to buy equipment and materials for a sewing cooperative
formed by a group of 13 orphans.
- Chimbenas Women’s Association in Action, San Jose de
Chimbo, Bolivar, Ecuador, $5,885 for a sewing machine to be
used in a micro-business that makes and sells clothing.
- Development Committee “El Rincon,” San Martin
Jilotepeque, Chimaltenango, Guatemala, $12,500 to help a group
of landowners restore deforested land and build cooking stoves
that conserve wood and improve family health.
- Cooperativa Agro-Pecuaria de Nyamatona, Chimoia, Mozambique,
$11,000 to enable 15 low-income families to raise and grow enough
food to sustain them for one year.
The national committee also authorized 21 presbytery-level and
four synod-level SDOP committees to allocate funds to local projects
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