10.07.2015
Wide Range of Projects Receive Bishops’ Appeal Allocations
At their last meeting, Bishops’ Appeal was delighted to be able to allocate substantial funding to a Christian Aid Ireland project in South Africa that focuses on highlighting the injustices around the mining industry that has caused radiation levels higher than Chernobyl and off the chart toxicities in the water for many poor communities. Bishops’ Appeal believes that we must address the injustice causing the poverty as well as responding to the symptoms these injustices produce.
Bishops’ Appeal also funded a SAMS project in Paraguay that allows many families in several villages to take up bee keeping and honey making as both a nutritional and income generating initiative.
They funded two more boreholes for Fields of Life in Uganda which allows up to 4,000 people access to fresh, safe drinking water. They part–funded a further water and sanitation project through Habitat for Humanity Northern Ireland where water harvesting and potable water projects will be instigated in Cambodia. Finally, Bishops’ Appeal donated to a School for the Deaf in Beirut.
At the time of the meeting, donations for the Nepal Appeal had reached €42,600 and £11,700, funds which have been released through Christian Aid and Tearfund Ireland for their ongoing relief and rehabilitation work among those most affected by the earthquake.
Bishops’ Appeal thanks all those who give them continuous support.