Other Activities in 2007

Other Activities in 2007

In addition to the above projects £12 per month is given to Tearfund’s Children at Risk project to help needy and neglected children in many areas of the world.

ROPE in Malling

Our second year of operation from July 2006 to June 2007 was another very successful year. A budget was set to raise £4,000 but due to the generosity of our supporters in WMBC and sister churches in the area £7,333 was raised. This enabled us to support MIVED in Peru at an increased level of £2,400, to provide further support of £2,900 to the community in Worcester South Africa in their irrigation project, and to help impoverished widows in Cameroon with £1,000. We were also able to fund 2 small projects to help farmers in Zambia and make  a further 2 one off grants to widows in Cameroon.

For the year to June 2008 a budget of £7,500 has been set, being £3,000 for MIVED in Peru, £2,000 for the widows in Cameroon and £2,500 for a project in Chad to train and educate young people. By the end of December 2007 £4,085 had been raised, a little ahead of budget.

In November Michael Wood (the founder of ROPE) took a morning service at WMBC and an appeal was made to help 2 widows with a Christmas gift in response to a request from our Ropeholder in Cameroon. £138 was given that morning and we recently heard what a blessing it had been to Anesta and Winifred.

BMS Globes

£284 was raised in 2007.

Christmas Card Project

Together with the collection at the Christmas morning service £734 was raised and given to ROPE for the following special projects:

£500 - A well in India

£150 - 2 fresh water wells in Cambodia

£50 - 2 small business loans in India

£30 – Wood supplies for widows in India