Charity News from Saturday, Feb. 19, 2000MCC U.S. board reaches season of changeMennonite Central Committee | -- The Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) U.S. board, meeting here February 4 and 5, reviewed the organization's priorities and successes after the first year of regionalization. "It is also time to embrace the change that is taking place with MCC... Colombian Mennonites ask for Investment in Peace Mennonite Central Committee | The Mennonite Church in Colombia declared its opposition to increased U.S. military aid in a letter to President Bill Clinton on February 11, 2000. Instead, the Mennonites called upon the United States to "substitute military involvement in our ... "Change of Command" awarded Mennonite Central Committee | -- The Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) U.S. video "Change of Command" achieved finalist status in the 1999 International Film & Video Competition of the New York Festivals. This award was presented in recognition of an outstanding achievement ... Muslims and Christians offer themselves as reconcilers in Indonesia's bloody Moluku Islands Mennonite Central Committee | YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia -- News stories from Indonesia these days tend to focus on violent unrest, on Christians and Muslims killing each other on many different islands. UKDW worked together with the public Gadjah Mada University and the Islamic ... Brazilians Celebrate Rainy New Years Mennonite Central Committee | TACAIMBO, Brazil -- While the world marked a new millennium, residents in this small town in northeast Brazil celebrated rains that signaled an end to two years of oppressive drought. Residents had quickly used up drinking water provided by the ... Iraqi Christians also suffer from the sanctions Mennonite Central Committee | Later conversations showed, however, that Iraq's Christians, who form less than 5 percent of the country's 22 million people, suffer the same hardships as the rest. In 1996 the United Nations and Iraq agreed to an Oil-For-Food program allowing ... Commentary: Elian case is politics as usual Mennonite Central Committee | Politics, not humanitarian concerns, again dictate U.S. relations with Cuba. "The embargo placed on Cuba in the early 1960s is increasing suffering of people in Cuba," explains Marty Shupack of the MCC U.S. Washington Office. American drug company teams up with Botswana agencies to fight spread of AIDS Mennonite Central Committee | This celebration on January 27 marked the beginning of BMS partnerships with two Botswana non-government organizations: Botswana Christian AIDS Intervention Program (BOCAIP) and Reetsenang, a drama group, the first beneficiaries of BMS funds. ... Soybeans: An MCC success story in Bangladesh Mennonite Central Committee | DHAKA, Bangladesh -- After 27 years of operation, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) closed its soybean program in Bangladesh at the end of December 1999. Availability of seeds was a problem, to which MCC responded by establishing New Life Seeds ... Arsenic in wells threatens the health of millions of Bangladeshis Mennonite Central Committee | To address these problems Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) and other agencies, along with Bangladesh's government, developed water supply and sanitation programs that continue today. In the mid-1990s, Bangladesh's government tested water in ... Floods in Mozambique wipe out homes, livelihoods Mennonite Central Committee | "We would like to emphasize that we have never seen such flooding," wrote Christine and Harold Wenger, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Mozambique representatives, in a February 10 email message. MCC worker Cheryl Delaplane lives in the village ... Thai authorities question MCC workers' involvement with Burmese Mennonite Central Committee | AKRON, Pa. -- February 11 Thai police raided the offices of Burma Issues, a Mennonite Central Committee (MCC)-supported human rights organization in Bangkok, Thailand. According to Ediger, when Thai intelligence officials learned that Burma ...
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