Charity News from Monday, Jul. 23, 2001USDA Awards $25 Million in Food Relief to Food For The Poor Inc.Food for the Poor | DEERFIELD BEACH, FL - (July 23, 2001) -- The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that it has awarded Food For The Poor Inc. (FFP) contracts worth approximately $25 million in agricultural commodities for immediate ... MCC couple reports on families at risk in Africa AIDS crisis Mennonite Central Committee | Listening to the stories of Stan and Delores Friesen who recently visited Africa for Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), one begins to get a sense of the human scale of this ever-widening tragedy. They visited churches, hospitals, non-governmental ... Stories of strength in a time of crisis Mennonite Central Committee | -- In the face of desperate circumstances caused by AIDS, many African Christians are choosing to be God's light, report Stan and Delores Friesen, who recently returned from a three-month trip to Africa for Mennonite Central Committee, where they ... Refugee teachers in Thailand prepare to train more teachers Mennonite Central Committee | THAM HIN, Thailand -- Teachers in a Karen refugee camp review curriculum they have developed in recent months. This spring a group of 34 teachers, themselves Karen refugees, participated in workshops led by Mennonite Central Committee volunteers ... Colombian indigenous groups protest kidnapping Mennonite Central Committee | In mid-June approximately 1,000 indigenous people from various parts of the country gathered here to protest injustice and conduct a symbolic search for Kimy Pern¡a Domic¢, the abducted leader of the Embera-Katio indigenous group. As a Mennonite ... MCC Learning Tour focuses on arts in Guatemala, Cuba Mennonite Central Committee | Our tour leaders, Deanna Durham of MCC El Salvador, and Bob Brenneman of MCC Guatemala, offered insight based on their own experiences in Latin America. Jeremias Ochoa, sociologist and lay leader in the Casa Horeb Mennonite Church in Guatemala ... Zimbabwe church launches home care project for HIV/AIDS patients Mennonite Central Committee | They gathered at the Mtshabezi Church in southwestern Zimbabwe to launch a new church-wide project to care for HIV/AIDS patients and to celebrate the first installment of a two-year $229,000 Cdn. MCC, which works closely with the BIC church in ... 'Disabled people can do anything!': Drama troupe shares Bible stories, message of hope Mennonite Central Committee | The 10 people who make up the Charis Community Players can identify with David, the unlikely king who is the subject of their most recent drama. But like David, Charis members want to serve God whole-heartedly.
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