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The World Action Group exists to look at international issues and bring them to the rest of the United Church. These may be issues to do with development, justice or human rights. The group regularly arranges talks and social events. The group is responsible for setting up a 2 year project to help the church learn about a specific subject in more depth. This also has a fund-raising element to it.
The current porjetc is the Joliba Trust which supports grassroots development work with farming and cattle-raising communities in some of the most marginal areas of Mali, West Africa. Much of their work is related to stabilisation of land affected by climate change, and tackling poverty. Please see the article in last month's Yours for details of the project, or find out more from the website http://www.jolibatrust.org.uk
The Joliba Trust is the charity that we as a church have agreed to
support for two years. As we start our
second year of fundraising we will be focusing on a new idea that is based on
the Enterprise Credit scheme that the Joliba trust runs for the people of Mali.
MAKE IT GROW
– the
story so far!
In an e-mail Jo
Crocker received on 6 January 2012, Caroline Hart explained how the Make It
Grow money will be used:
Thank you
very much for the beautiful ‘Make it Grow’ pack you made and sent me a copy
of. It is lovely to see what you are
doing, and all the thought and care that has gone into this. Any money raised
from Make It Grow will go towards new microcredit schemes for women who have
had no harvest this year. It has been a
really terrible drought year, and has only rained three times for many families,
so crops have died. The money raised
from the microcredit activities will help the women to buy food for the family,
so it will be really helpful in offsetting food crisis in 2012. The next harvest won't be until Oct
2012. We are also buying stocks of
grain for the women to buy, as this is already three times the normal price due
to shortage, and is likely to rise even more.
Thank you
for all your wonderfully kind efforts on our behalf.
Very best
wishes for 2012.
Caroline
How can we
really stand in the shoes of these men and women in the Dogon region of Mali as they
face parched land, dead crops, food crisis?
They are our neighbour today! Giving money to buy a meal is helpful but
gone after the meal.
4 months in
ü 15 loans (amounting to about £90) taken out and repaid
ü Over £500 sent to The Joliba Trust!
'Good effort!'
all children and young people at United.
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