Christmas Appeal to assist the Church in Sudan develop a Micro-Enterprise Fund reaches a third of its target already
The Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA) in the UK and Ireland, in addition to providing a spiritual home for Orthodox Anglicans, are also impassioned to encourage global and local mission. So, standing in solidarity with Anglican Christians throughout the world, the FCA has started the Anglican International Development for Relief and Change (AID) fund.
Over the next few years, AID will be partnering with churches in education, healthcare and job creation through micro-finance projects, especially in regions where access to these basic needs have been restricted or denied to Christians due to deliberate discrimination and oppression.
Anglican Christians account for about a third of the population of southern Sudan. They have thus far survived the brutal onslaught of the military regimes who have favoured the Islamic-oriented government’s attempts to impose Sharia law on the country as a whole. While there is peace, there is a most urgent need to create long-term and sustainable economic development in the region so that beyond 2011 the southern Sudanese can retain autonomy in their day to day living.
Working in partnership with the Episcopal Church of Sudan, AID is setting up a micro finance Project beginning in the Juba Diocese but planned to cover all the dioceses of the province. Projects are typically agricultural and there is great scope for enabling people to make full use of the land that is available to them. The target for this Christmas appeal is £100,000. To date £33,270 has been raised. Please help us reach the goal to assist our sisters and brothers in Southern Sudan.
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