International projects
Purchase three computers and three printers to enable those isolated from the world to learn to communicate, socialize and share experiences. Writing and reading skills will be improved.
Mission/Purpose Statement
The project intends to provide technological knowledge for people of all ages in this remote part of Brazil about modern means of communication. In living far away from a city, their local church is the only accessible and reliable place where they can express themselves. The program will also improve the people’s writing and reading of Portuguese.
Develop training sessions and produce educational materials to end the practice of female genital mutilation in Ethiopia.
Mission/Purpose Statement
The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY) focuses on the ministries of health, education and evangelism. Their theme, “Serving the Whole Person,” reflects their commitment to a holistic ministry that addresses the physical and spiritual needs of God’s people.
The Gender Office of EECMY seeks to reduce harmful traditional practices, such as female genital mutilation (FGM) or female circumcision. FGM has been imposed upon Ethiopian women for generations, physically and psychologically violating them.
Train doctors to alert villagers to the seriousness of leprosy and other contagious diseases. Early detection helps prevent loss of sight and limb(s).
Mission/Purpose Statement
China Connection seeks to promote understanding of China and the Chinese people; to make known the work of China’s Christian-initiated Amity Foundation and China Christian Council; and to serve as a channel for needed project funds, equipment and personnel as requested by colleagues in China.
Provide a permanent source of safe, clean drinking water, which will improve economic and social conditions, and eradicate water-borne diseases.
Mission/Purpose Statement
The KMWWP is a community-based project of the non-profit Emayian Development Program, whose mission is to work with the Maasai people in Kipeto who are poor and marginalized. The program works to eradicate poverty by addressing its root causes. The water project will ensure that all have the right to life-sustaining, clean, safe drinking water.
Read thank-you letter from Emayian Development Program.
Provide vocational training for youth who have been abandoned, to break the cycle of poverty and offer help for the future.
Mission/Purpose Statement
Miracles in Action is committed to improving the lives of people who are poor by funding sustainable development projects. Volunteers research projects in developing countries and select those that achieve significant, long-term results. By partnering with trusted charities in Guatemala, Peru and Ecuador, Miracles in Action has built schools, installed water systems and offered vocational education to children in orphanages.
Purchase chicks as layers and boilers, construct a brooder and procure vaccine storage equipment.
Mission/Purpose Statement
To carry out activities that foster the empowerment of people who are poor or marginalized, particularly rural women and youth, so they are able to realize their full potential and participation in the social and economic activities in the community.
Purchase the High Hatch Incubator, a feed mill, chickens, animal feed, feeders and a water trough.
Mission/Purpose Statement
Katuuso Self Help Association is a Christian organization founded by Sembabule Presbyterian Church to provide quality technical services to people in need living in the rural and peri-urban areas of the Sembabule district. Services are provided to all, regardless of religion, ethnicity or gender, however, more emphasis is put on women and children as they are the most marginalized and poor.
Enhance the roles of women with disabilities by providing training, equipment and raw materials for sewing workshops.
Mission/Purpose Statement
The purpose of this project is to enhance the role of women with disabilities in the Lebanese society by equipping them with the necessary tools and skills to become productive, independent, and able to support themselves as equal members in their families and communities.
Purchase maize mill, feed mill and mixer, and maize thresher to process crops and generate income for rural women.
Mission/Purpose Statement
Unity is Strength Women Association supports efforts of the poor and marginalized rural women in combating hunger, malnutrition and domestic poverty in the rural sector of Isango, Kisinga, Karambi and Kyarumba sub counties. The project will help to build their capacities and technical skills so that they can fight hunger, poverty and malnutrition in their communities.
Establish apiary demonstration project and purchase beekeeping equipment for 100 women, enabling them to produce honey and wax for candles and to develop a marketing system.
Mission/Purpose Statement
Beekeeping for Domestic Poverty Reduction will provide technical skills to women in Kibisire who are poor and marginalized. They will learn bee keeping and management, wax extraction and candle making, propolis and honey harvesting, preparation and marketing.
Educate women’s groups in cooperative enterprises, and help them develop skills and marketing techniques for organic farming and hand loomed textiles.
Mission/Purpose Statement
Chethana, a network of 18 grassroots organizations in South India, works with the most deprived communities to deal with problems of hunger and poverty and work towards equal rights for all people. Chethana strives to address the inequities resulting from globalization by offering community education, advocacy, alternative economic activities, lifestyle changes and spiritual grounding for marginalized people, such as tribal people, women, farmers, bamboo workers, rural artisans and tsunami victims.
Establish computer skills development center with the purchase of 30 computers to be used by 150 girls during the week and 30 women from the community on Saturdays.
Mission/Purpose Statement
Irma Pfeiffer Bweya High School provides education and training to girls who are marginalized, disadvantaged and poor in Uganda. Regardless of their religion, race, ethnicity or political affiliation, girls and women will be eligible for training, helping them to realize their full potential for development and future sustainability.
Purchase water installation equipment to provide clean water to inhabitants of slum areas of Muyambe.
Mission/Purpose Statement
Access to clean water is a basic human right, but one that many, including people living in the slums of Muyambe, do not have. The Muyambe clean water project will provide clean and accessible water to the people of Muyambe.
Provide scholarships for 17 African women, enabling them to attend this meeting.
Mission/Purpose Statement
The Africa office of the PC(USA) is committed to building church partner relationships between Presbyterian churches in the United States and Africa. The office builds relationships with the women of the churches, supporting them in their ministries and in their faith. With this grant the Africa office can facilitate a gathering of African Presbyterian women, offering much-needed fellowship, encouragement, validation of their importance in the partner relationship with PC(USA), as well as for identification of common ministries, activities and challenges across Africa.
Install a permanent, safe and clean drinking water system to serve the slum area inhabitants of Kirinda.
Mission/Purpose Statement
Kirinda Water Project will install a permanent safe, clean and piped drinking water system that will help to eradicate waterborne diseases among the poor inhabitants of Kirinda slum area.
Help women living in rural areas reduce poverty and hunger by growing and marketing mushrooms.
Mission/Purpose Statement
Babuyirana Women Group Ministries offers resources to help women combat poverty. With programs such as mushroom growing, the project offers technical assistance with quality information to help women and their families leave poverty.
Provide hand pumps to all community boreholes for a constant supply of clean water.
Mission/Purpose Statement
Ayomso Community/Boreholes project works to resolve Goaso’s acute water problems, particularly eradicating guinea worms and other waterborne diseases. Women and girls typically fetch water for their families, making them more vulnerable to the waterborne diseases. This project will protect women and girls who transport the water as well as those who drink it.
Help women living in rural areas eradicate poverty by breeding, distributing and marketing pigs.
Mission/Purpose Statement
The Masooli Multiplication Center staff of agriculturalists and veterinarians promotes high breeds of crops and animals to fight malnutrition, hunger and poverty among rural poor in Masooli and other areas within the country. The Masooli Rural Women Associations will receive training from the center on how to breed, raise and sell pigs.
Provide garden tools, farm implements and seeds to displaced persons who have been allocated land but cannot afford farm equipment or seeds.
Mission/Purpose Statement
Kitoro Self Help Association works to improve international protection of refugees and internally displaced persons and to offer humanitarian assistance regardless of race, religion, nationality or political views. Some displaced people in the Parabek, Lira and Kitgum districts have been allocated land, but cannot afford to buy the seeds or equipment. By providing garden tools, quality seeds and farming implements to them, the organization offers income and a food supply through farming.
Provide safe and clean drinking water for the community, including an orphanage in the Rakai district slum area.
Mission/Purpose Statement
Mulwana Kalanzi Project is a community-based project and orphanage in the Rakai district slum area; they provide education, nutrition, general mother support and care to orphans and vulnerable children including those affected by HIV/AIDS. The project will provide clean drinking water to the orphanage and the nearby community.
Train displaced persons in modern farming techniques.
Mission/Purpose Statement
Kyeyune Ssenkubuge Project trains resettled displaced people from Burundi, southern Sudan and northern Uganda in modern farming methods and provides them with basic farming implements and seeds. The displaced people have improved social and economic opportunities in their new home.
Alleviate hunger and poverty by selling oil from palm and coconut trees in a community-based self-help group consisting of 50 widows.
Mission/Purpose Statement
The Homeless Widows organization is comprised of 50 women who will be trained to cultivate palm and coconut trees and extract the oil for sale. This training will help to alleviate both hunger and poverty for women who do not have any other income.
Provide safe drinking water to all people of the Kasana slum community.
Mission/Purpose Statement
The Kasana Tadeo Clean Water Project will ensure that people living in the slum areas of Kasana have access to clean and safe drinking water.
Reduce hunger by establishing a hatchery in the slum community of Nakaseke.
Mission/Purpose Statement
Afrika Belt Presbyterian Church offers technical services to people who are disadvantaged, poor and/or marginalized in the rural and the slum communities in the district of Nakaseke, particularly women and children.
Purchase a vehicle to visit those with HIV/AIDS and provide transportation to clinics and hospitals.
Mission/Purpose Statement
The Department of Women and Families (DFF) is the central department in the Presbyterian Church of Kinshasa and works to nurture, support and facilitate women’s work. DFF helps local women to grow in faith with spiritual, physical and emotional health. As the women are helped to live this way, they are better able to help their families, churches and communities to live in the same way.
Improve the living standards of women living in rural areas by teaching them to produce and market bamboo baskets.
Mission/Purpose Statement
Community Development Society offers programs and resources that will improve the living standards of women in India, helping them to attain more financial stability.
Provide consultation and treatment by psychiatrists, psychologists, physicians and dentists.
Mission/Purpose Statement
The Tahanan Sta. Luisa Crisis Intervention Center for Sexually-exploited Street Girls provides a temporary recovery center for girls who live on the streets, have run away from home as a result of sexual or physical abuse, or those who have been prostituted or sexually exploited.
Complete construction of two classrooms and two additional rooms and furnish all four rooms.
Mission/Purpose Statement
The Synod of Zambia HIV/AIDS Program (SoZHAP) exists to contribute to the reduction of HIV infection and reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS through provision of HIV/AIDS information, care, treatment and support to those infected and affected. This grant will complete one of SoZHAP’s Community Schools, which provide education, care and nutrition for children who for social, economic or other reasons are unable to enroll in the government schools. The school will offer a stable, educational setting for the children, many of whom are poor or orphaned.
Purchase mushroom cultivation houses and raw materials, such as wheat, paddy straw, seeds and bags.
Mission/Purpose Statement
Sarojini Mahili Mandili works to improve the quality of life for poor rural women. This project will improve the socio-economic, health and educational opportunities for women in India.
Provide raw materials for construction of a maternity block and training center for traditional birth attendants to serve the community.
Mission/Purpose Statement
The project brings health delivery service to the people who are poor in Legon-Accra, regardless of religion, race, nationality, gender or ability level. With this grant, the organization will provide training for birth attendants to decrease the high rate of maternal and infant mortality.
Read thank-you letter from Associate for Missions Youth Project.
Construct a second building to house girls and boys in separate facilities, per government regulations.
Mission/Purpose Statement
The Prachakittisuk Church Orphanage works to improve the lives of children who have been orphaned due to AIDS or parental addiction. The orphanage fosters an attitude of Christian leadership.
Provide materials to excavate and construct 10 pit latrines to improve the basic health of the community.
Mission/Purpose Statement
Vanda Presbyterian Church has created several projects to improve or provide sanitation facilities and access to water in the Vanda community. Because people die daily as a result of very poor or no sanitation facilities, the projects work to achieve “a healthy body in a healthy church.” Through these projects, the church decreases the number of people suffering or dying from cholera and dysentery.
Provide postage for overseas shipment of 70-pound boxes of medical supplies.
Mission/Purpose Statement
Interchurch Medical Assistance, Inc. is an association of 12 Protestant relief and development agencies. IMA assists church-run hospitals and community clinics in developing countries by providing material resources, training and program management. The IMA Medicine Box program delivers basic medicines and supplies to Presbyterian hospitals in Malawi and the Democratic Republic of Congo. |
The Creative Ministries Offering Committee met in Louisville, Kentucky, February 2007, to review 77 proposals and approve grants totaling $983,194 from the 2006 Thank Offering of Presbyterian Women. Forty-nine projects received grants; 16 are in the United States and 33 are international.
