Welcome to the Summer 2002 On-Line Edition of

St George's News

Waterlooville's Parish Magazine

CHRISTIAN AID WEEK 2002

What the money raised by your committee is going to achieve:

In the Philippines

£100 - pays for a new banca (a one-person fishing boat).

£200 - pays for second hand engines for eight boats.

£1,200 - pays a year's salary for a community organiser.

£4,000 - pays for small nets for 50 fishermen.

In Ghana

Training for 18 people as traditional birth attendants - £3,000 (18 people x 7 days).

Donkey Traction Training for 18 people - £1,400 (9 days for 18 people).

Maintenance drugs for 15 donkeys - £420.

Salary for an agricultural technical officer for one year - £1,217.

Motorbike - £2,097.

In Honduras

Every £10 raised trains a farmer how to process organic sugar.

Every £100 provides instruction manuals for 23 peasant leaders to learn basic accountancy and administration.

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