Where the money will go...

New School building at Aiome Anglican High School Papua New Guinea.

In Papua New Guinea the churches run many of the schools and health services as well as worship and pastoral care. Only since 1996 has the Highland region had a secondary school - Aiome Anglican High School. The school cannot yet seek financial help from its former students. Half of Aiome's school has been built of local timber and thatch by children themselves. They are temporary structures and leak in the frequent equatorial downpours. Sanitary conditions are rudimentary. The school needs dormitories, classrooms and an improved water, drainage and power infrastructure. Aiome School is in an area listed by UNICEF as one of the five most remote communities in the world. Even a few thousand pounds could greatly improve reliability of water and power supplies.

St Michael & All Angels', Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa school building project

St Michael and All Angels' Khayelitsha, is the link parish of St Michael's East Wickham. The project is to build a primary school to continue the children's education once they leave pre-school nurseries. It is an investment for the future of the Township. The Khayelitsha project also runs a counselling and nutrition service for people with HIV/AIDS; Simamaleni - a ministry for abused children in the area; an income generating sewing group and a craft market providing local jobs and income.

Thanarbaid Village Health Project - Bangladesh

Thanarbaid is a rural parish about 100 miles north of Dhaka. The village health project aims to provide a healthcare programme by and for the local people that is radically committed to the poor to promote a cohesive and caring community. The project has 9 full time workers and 12 part-time. There is a hospital and clinic, together with a neighbouring clinic for diabetes and TB.

Neutral Ground Child Contact Centre, Abbey Wood, SE London

Set up 10 years ago by William Temple Church to enable children of broken partnerships to meet with an absent parent in a safe, friendly and neutral environment. It caters for children from a wide range of minority ethnic groups and people travel from all over the UK in order to have contact with their children who live in or near Abbey Wood. All of the children are emotionally damaged by the inability of their parents to make provision for beneficial contact and many households have a history of domestic violence. Some children have special needs and disabilities. BBC Children in Need have funded 50% of expenditure through to March 2003 but a further £11,000 is needed.

Zimbabwe - Aid to our Link Dioceses

Each Episcopal Area is linked to a Diocese in Zimbabwe:-

• The Croydon Area is linked with Central Zimbabwe;
• The Kingston Area is linked with Matabeleland;
• The Woolwich Area is linked with Manicaland.

Zimbabwe's current unstable political situation is damaging the economy badly. Inflation is raging and trade with other nations is seriously affected. Families suffer, education suffers, health suffers. Lent Call has raised funds each year for projects in our link dioceses, but the situation has become increasingly difficult. We shall still put aside monies from the Lent Call fund, although at present we cannot specify the projects they will be used for.