St Mary’s Outward Giving in 2007
Darfur, Africa: The United Nations has described it as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis; more than 200,000 have died from violence, disease or starvation, another 2.5 million people are currently living in displacement camps, dependent on humanitarian aid.
Christian Aid supports large humanitarian relief programmes in north, south and west Darfur, which aim to assist those worst affected by the conflict. Almost half a million people receive help through these programmes, including shelter, food, health, nutrition, water, sanitation, education, and agricultural and psycho-social support. The programmes are aimed at those in need, whether displaced or not, and from all ethnic groups. Click here to find out more.
This is a list of our giving to external good causes during the previous year.
Christian Aid
£400 towards the African flood relief
£700 towards their general work
About £600 from our lunches at Westgate in the summer (will not appear in our accounts)
£2,290 from our house to house collections in our parish (will not appear in our accounts)
We also raised £450 from our faith lunch in December – this was given to them in January 2008
USPG
£650 towards their general Christian work across the world
Chestnuts Play Centre, Peterborough
£700. This organisation was selected by our bellringers to be their nominated charity for 2007
Children’s Society
£150 to support their work with children across the world
Sight Savers
£100 towards their work in relieving blindness overseas
Oxford Mission
£300 to assist in their running of orphanages and schools at their two sites in Bangladesh
Leprosy Mission
£100. A national organisation to relieve the suffering of leprosy, with a local connection
St Theresa’s, Peterborough
£200 to help their clients on a day to day basis
Church Housing Trust
£100 to help in supporting homeless people across the country
The New Haven, Peterborough
£200. To help their residents at Christmas
Shelter
£100 to help them in their work with the homeless and badly housed across the UK
Peterborough Soup Kitchen
£100 to assist their clients during the winter
Chernobyl Children’s Appeal, Peterborough
£100. For the continuing work of John & Rosie Sandall in the Ukraine
Crisis UK
£100 for their work in supporting homeless people across the UK
Sue Ryder (Thorpe Hall)
£100 for their hospice work
Family Care
£100 for protecting children and families in Peterborough and Northampton
Crosslinks
£100, formerly the Bible Churchman’s Missionary Society, working across the world
Bethany Appeal
£50 for working with disabled children in Zambia
The Well, Peterborough
£150 for the continuation of this local counselling service
The Bible Society
£100 for their work in distributing bibles across the world
In total, this amounts to about £7,500 a sum we can all be proud of.
