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Advance Special Projects.


AFRICA
Location Project Title Advance #
Maua, Kenya Maua Methodist Hospital AID ORPHANS' FEEDING AND EDUCATION SUPPORT

$15 feed and educates an AIDS orphan for one month. $185 feeds and educates and AIDS orphan for one year.

Maternal and Child Health Program 140159

"For AIDS Orphans"

Maua, Kenya

Maua Methodist Hospital PALLIATIVE CARE PROGRAM

$26 provides antiretroviral drugs for one month in the Palliative Care program to keep a mother with AIDS alive.

09613A "For Palliative Care"

Maua, Kenya

Maua Methodist Hospital SERVICE FUND

$1 pays for a malaria test for an outpatient. This is the most common disease in the area.

$2 pays for a doctor to diagnose an illness

$3 buys medicine to cure a child with malaria as an outpatient.

$10 buys antibiotics to cure a patient with typhoid as an outpatient.

$100 cures a baby with pneumonia and malaria as an inpatient for seven days in the hospital.

09613A
Sudan Sudan Emergency

This fund will enable displaced Sudanese people to receive essential supplies and will also help provide supplementary food for malnourished children.

184385
Cambodia, Angola, Mozambique, Liberia & Sierra Leone UMCOR Landmine Removal assistance

Land is being cleared of vegetation to allow for the removal of landmines under a landmines removal program sponsored by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) and its parent agency, the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries.

*69 countries and territories are affected by landmines

*Every 20 minutes, a landmine kills or maims an innocent person

*Of the 26,000 deaths a year from landmines, one-third - 8,700 - are children

*In some countries, 80% of the farm land is unavailable for cultivation because of landmines.

982575

 

How do you contribute to these projects?

* To make a gift to any Advance Special Project, make your check payable to your local United Methodist Church. Be sure to write the Advance code number and the name of the project on the check.

* For local church and annual conference credit, give your gift to you local church treasurer, who will send it to your Conference treasurer.

* If you are not a UMC member, you may write your church to:"Advance GCFA" with the Advance Special code number and the name of the project on the check and send directly to: "Advance GCFA; P.O. Box 9068 GPO; New York, N.Y. 10087-9068

* To make a gift by credit card call: (888)252-6174

* To make monthly gifts by automatic charges to your credit card, call 212-870-3917 and ask for Alice Rodriguez in Cash Receipts at the UMC mission board, the GBGM.