Requests Originating with Outreach International
Dominican Republic Schools Food and Water Program: These funds help provide clean drinking water and a daily meal to school children in Los Mulos
and La Romana. $19,000.
Gumiguda School, East India: This grant provides continued support of
the nutrition program at Gumiguda School in Orissa State. $14,000.
Zion’s Hope Day Care Center, Brazil: This program provides
nourishing meals and primary education to approximately 100 preschool children in
Ferraz de Vasconcelos, a poor suburb of Sao Paulo, Brazil. $10,000.
Africa Field Project: This grant helps support the work of several
human development specialists working to assist in creating sustainable food
production initiatives among the individuals and families in poor communities in
the African countries of Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, and the Democratic Republic of
the Congo. $52,000.
Assessment of Food Assistance Project in Zambia: This grant is
to enable Outreach personnel conduct a rapid appraisal of the possibilities
for establishing contacts with NGOs and other collaborating organizations in
Zambia and Malawi by means of on-site evaluation. $15,000.
Total amount approved: $110,000
Requests Originating with World Accord
PRR, La Buena Fe, Honduras: This grant supports a long-range program
of training to develop the capacity of small farmers to increase crop
production, food storage, and marketing techniques in the La Buena Fe area.
$20,887.
Clean Drinking Water Project, Swabi District, Pakistan: This project
will provide drinking water through a pipeline to 270 houses in the village of
Dalori Bala within one year. $1,690.
Irrigation and Water Management System, Pakistan: This grant supports
the development of an irrigation water facility for farmers in six villages in
the Punjab area. $3,297.
Farmer Training, Sindh District, Pakistan: The object of this program
is to increase the technical knowledge of farming systems among the poor farmers
in four villages of the Sindh District in Pakistan. $1,067.
SAP Nepal: This grant supports the work of the national training
organization in Nepal that aims to increase food production through education in
better farming techniques, food storage and seed production. $32,795.
Filipino Deportation Reintegration: Provides relief for refugee
Filipinos deported from Malaysia back to Mindanao in the Philippines. $15,054.
World Accord Core Funding: This grant goes to support some of the
administrative costs associated with the operation of World Accord. $25,000.
Total amount approved: $83,228 U.S.
It should be noted that all the World Accord grants are in
US dollars, but will be matched at a ratio of at least 3:1 by Canadian
Government funds.
Direct Requests
Stockton, Missouri Christmas Baskets: This provides start up money for
a program of providing Christmas baskets to needy families in the Stockton area.
$2000.
Loaves and Fishes, Branson, Missouri: This grant assists the Branson
congregation in supplying food to needy persons in the Branson area, especially
through the winter months. $1000.
Least of These Ministries, Kansas City, Missouri: This is a project to
assist in feeding and caring for needy persons around one of the congregations
in the Kansas City area. $12,000.
Emergency Grant for the Africa Field- Liberia: This grant is to
provide for purchasing emergency food supplies for church members in and around
Monrovia who have been displaced by recent war activities. $4,200.
Total amount approved: $19,200
Grand total World Hunger Funds approved: $214,428.
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