MISSIONARIES OF ST ANDREW
ANGLICAN AID ABROAD
PATRONS The Most Reverend P
Aspinall, Archbishop of Brisbane
The
Right Reverend D Farrer, Bishop of Wangaratta
The
Right Reverend J Lewis, Retired Bishop of North Queensland
The
Right Reverend R Appleby, former Assistant Bishop of Brisbane
The
Right Reverend Michael King, OSB, Abbot of Camperdown
The
Reverend Brother Daniel SSF, Minister General, Society of St Francis
Mother
Eunice SSA, Society of the Sacred Advent, Brisbane
Mrs
Avis Mathieson, Past President, MU Australia, Diocese of Brisbane
Mrs
Barbara Price, Past President, MU Australia, Diocese of Brisbane
Dear
Members, Friends & Supporters
Is
it just my imagination, or do the Christmas decorations in the shops sneak up a
little earlier each year? In one shop,
the message was “Spend, Spend, Spend and Save”, and November had just begun! If only people would stop and think for a
moment about why we have a Christmas festival in the first place, our society
would be more concentrated on the real sources of happiness.
Perhaps
the Christmas spirit – the real one that is – might well be exemplified by an
article you will find within our pages.
It concerns a gift, and a substantial one, which some of our co-workers
in South Africa recently received.
Someone, touched by the plight of the young, orphaned children on the
streets of Capetown, gave a house to provide (at least) some of them with a
home.
How
often we hear people say, “Christmas is all about children”, but how easy it is
to overlook the fact that for hundreds of millions of them, Christmas, if they
have heard about it, is just another day of hunger, fear, abuse or
hopelessness.
Nor
is it just children who suffer. That
Christmas spirit we speak about should surely be the motivating force behind
what we do on every other day of the year for everybody. That is why I am happy to be penning this
editorial for our Newsletter at this time.
To be able to write about positive, caring and exciting events is a real
tonic in today’s world and I am sure you will be happy to see some of the
things we have achieved over the past three months.
Our
co-workers around the world are very touched by the help they are receiving
from people like us. They see the
appalling need around them day by day and know what could be done with just a
little help so they are very grateful when your gifts arrive – not for
themselves, but for those they long to help.
Perhaps
Father Thami Shange put it clearly in a recent letter. “Please convey our thanks and appreciation
to the Missionaries of St Andrew for their support in initiating, implementing
and maintaining all of our projects for the poor.”
This
I am happy to do and at the same time, wish you all every joy for Christmas and
many blessings in the New Year from our local volunteers and myself. For all of us, the first Christmas Gift,
2000 years ago, is the greatest Gift of all.
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God
bless you all. (Rev)
Fr ND Nixon |
The Quarterly Meeting of
the Missionaries of Saint Andrew Anglican Aid Abroad Will be on |
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GIFTS SENT DURING QUARTER (01 / 08 / 2007 - 31 /
10 / 2007) |
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AFRICA |
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GHANA |
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ORDER OF THE HOLY
CROSS |
Employment Schemes, Schools |
4,100 |
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LIBERIA |
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ORDER OF THE HOLY
CROSS |
Rehabilitaion work after civil unrest |
1,000 |
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SOUTH AFRICA |
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HOLY PARACLETE WELFARE
FUND |
Water tanks, agricultural projects |
3,000 |
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ORDER OF ST FRANCIS |
Rehabilitation of farming land |
1,500 |
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AUGUSTINIAN BROTHERS |
Work amongst rural poor |
1,200 |
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SISTERS OF THE HOLY
NAME |
Children's welfare projects (Nongoma) |
1,200 |
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SISTERS OF THE HOLY
NAME |
Orphanage, farming (KwaMagwaza) |
4,500 |
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TANZANIA |
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SISTERS OF ST MARY |
Building of Clinic (Sayuni Msima) |
1,500 |
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SISTERS OF ST MARY |
Children's education, relief work (Korogwe) |
1,500 |
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SISTERS OF ST MARY |
Children's wefare (Njombe) |
1,500 |
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AMANI DEVELOPMENT TRUST |
Wells, agriculture |
4,500 |
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ZAMBIA |
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LITTLE SISTERS IN
JESUS |
Women's training courses |
1,000 |
26,500 |
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AMERICA |
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BRAZIL |
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SOCIETY OF ST FRANCIS |
Social service work in slums |
600 |
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC |
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SISTERS OF THE
TRANSFIGURATION |
School clinics, nutrition projects. |
1,500 |
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HAITI |
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SISTERS OF ST MARGARET |
Care of sick, aged, school sponsorships |
2,300 |
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PORT AU PRINCE
ORPHANAGE |
Children's needs |
1,500 |
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TAPIO MISSION |
Relief work after Hurricane |
2,000 |
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USA |
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GOOD SAMARITAN
SERVICES |
Post Hurricane Katrina assistance |
800 |
8,700 |
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ASIA |
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SRI LANKA |
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SISTERS OF ST MARGARET |
Ongoing Tsunami relief |
2,500 |
2,500 |
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PACIFIC |
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SOLOMON ISLANDS |
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MELANESIAN BROTHERHOOD |
Tsunami relief, welfare work |
4,200 |
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DIOCESE OF MALAITA |
Clean water project |
1,500 |
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SISTERS OF THE CHURCH |
Welfare projects for women & children |
3,600 |
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VANUATU |
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MELANESIAN BROTHERHOOD |
Medical and agricultural work |
1,500 |
10,800 |
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TOTAL GIFTS SENT
DURING QUARTER |
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48,500.00 |
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Around
two years ago, two young priests in Kenya gave up opportunities for advancement
to begin work in a new environment, the Korogocho Slums, which form a gigantic
blot on the Kenyan landscape and provide Nairobi with its least desirable
suburb.
The
work flourished. The midst of this vast
tangle of tiny shacks and muddy streets, Good Shepherd Church tends to the
spiritual and material welfare of several hundred parishioners. This concern to help people out of poverty
has led the parish to plan a school as educational activities in Korogocho are
virtually non-existent.
So,
“House School” was born – two classrooms in a small living place, which, if all
goes well will hold 150 children in grades 1 and 2 in January 2008. For around AUD10 / term ($40/yr) a child can
be supplied with all necessary text books, writing materials and exercise books
and the teachers with the relevant teaching materials.
They
have asked for our help and an anonymous donor in the USA, who knows the
Parish, has promised to match each Australian Dollar for an American one. Their Bishop backs their appeal and AAA
thinks it sounds too good an opportunity to miss.
We
commend this Project to our readers!
An old friend
has appeared in a new setting. Father
Fungayi Nyandoro is usually at work at Bonda in Zimbabwe, where he is a
member of the Brothers of the Holy Transfiguration, but has just surfaced in
South Africa. He is there at the
request of Bishop Dino Gabriel who has asked him to lead a new venture in the
Diocese of Zululand.
A few months ago, the Sisters of the Holy Name who had laboured Isandlwana for many years, returned to their Mother House but will be retaining management of the large children’s welfare project they have set in train in that part of South Africa. |
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X - Isandlwana
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What
Next?
Nursing,
teaching, driving tractors – it is all in a day’s work at Tanga Convent.
Recently, the
Bishop of Tanga, on Tanzania’s northern coast, asked the Sisters of St Mary to undertake courses in tractor driving,
maintenance and repair.
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An email carried sad news from Haiti. Two of the villages which received their water supply through the kindness of AAA donors now have water problems of another kind.
They now have too much. A massive tropical storm dumped a deluge on the mountains behind Port-au-Prince. Haiti’s hillsides, long denuded of their luxuriant rainforests, sent torrents of water rushing through flimsy shacks in Tapio and Manonville, and several neighbouring towns. The homes were flattened.
As yet, there is no news on loss of life but people who were already desperately poor will have to start again – literally with nothing. Fortunately water systems still work and so at least there will be clean drinking water, but little else.
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At the best of times, most of these people need the help of the Church through its clinics, schools and welfare programs. Now they will need food, clothing and shelter and Haiti’s cash-strapped and – not exactly reliable – government is not likely to be of much assistance. Only the Church will help. Its buildings are already sheltering the homeless, but with the tiny subsistence farms, on which people rely, now buried deep in mud or washed away by raging floodwaters, help is needed, both now and for some time to come. |
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In response, AAA has sent off $2,000 but that is only a tiny drop in the bucket. These villages now need a flood of help.
Some months have elapsed since we last heard from Fr Leonard Abbah of the Order of the Holy Cross. There was a good reason. He had a stroke in late June and only returned to his normal routine in late September.
Before taking ill, he mailed part of our last gift to Cameroon where it is to help with the education of a group of teenage boys. He was to take the rest to Liberia and Ghana but was prevented by sickness. Now he hopes to travel in January but in the meantime has some news to share.
Ghana too, has had heavy rain recently, but the large farm outside Kumasi belonging to the Order had little damage to its existing crops. With our help a new batch of oil palm seedlings are ready for planting and a nursery for cashew trees has been established. Young men and women from neighbouring villages are learning basic agricultural techniques which are ecologically sound, and the farm employs several local families.
Sadly Father Anthony Stevens died on 21 September. He had gone back to Liberia to train a group of young men, the Brothers of the Love of God, whose vision is to help rebuild their country which has been shattered by years of civil strife.
We may look forward to further news following a visit he hopes to pay to our west African co-workers in January.
Through the kindness of the Sisters of the Sacred Name, AAA has been sending some support to St Andrew’s School, the Church High School in Nuku’Alofu, Tonga.
This year, the School commenced a major upgrading of all facilities, beginning with the classrooms and furniture. As they operate on a slim budget, the gift from AAA was a welcome help according to Mr Lokuvalu Leha, the School Treasurer. Everyone has been helping – the Parents and Teachers Association, the local parishes, old students and people like us overseas.
Besides the work to be done in the classrooms, the school will be tackling major renovations in the buildings used for classes in Industrial Arts and Home Economics, the Science Laboratory and students’ library.
By the end of 2008, the School is hoping to be fully modernised and able to increase its present student intake which currently stands at 335. Some 27 staff members operate the school and three Sisters of the Sacred Name (all Tongans) provide a caring presence for the school community and their families.
Out of school hours, the nuns provide a range of recreational programs for the young people and assistance to families in need or in times of crisis.
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Students raising funds
for St Andrew’s at a “Barbie” in the Convent grounds. |
Sr Fehoko is
determined the young people will know where Australia is (note the
map!). The yet-to-be inflated soccer
balls are another gift from us. |
In an email from co-workers in South Africa, we have just heard that a house has been given to the Church for the establishment of a much-needed refuge and residence for AIDS orphans in Capetown.
Many children who have lost their parents live on the streets of major cities in Africa. Of these, a significant number are HIV positive and those who are not stand a very good chance of acquiring the illness through abuse, drug addiction, or being forced into prostitution. Too few places of care are available to meet this increasing need, so the opening of a new facility is a cause for rejoicing.
At present, the house is unfurnished but in good order, although some renovations will be necessary to make it suitable for its new use. What more appropriate time than Christmas to provide these children with a roof over their heads.
If you would like to help (these prices are notional only): - plates $1 each; sheets $5; clothing $10; shoes $20; and school needs $50. There are any number of needs to set up this house and these are only suggestions.
Every Picture
Tells a Story
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LEFT: I am not alone: Sister Martha and AAA are my friends and they take care of
me. A
little AIDS-epidemic orphan at Bwawani faces the future with hope. Tanzania. |
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RIGHT:
Nor are the aged and poor neglected.
These regular visitors to the Convent of St Mary in Dar-es-Salaam
wanted their photograph sent to say ‘thank-you’. Tanzania |
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LEFT:
We tried! Somehow we just couldn’t
fit ALL of our 1,500 students in. Greetings
to you all from your friends at St Martin’s School and Orphanage. Nagpur, India |
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RIGHT:
However, they did round up a few of the orphan boys of St Martin’s School who
receive support from AAA funds for a close up. Nagpur, India “Thank
you.” |
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Southern African
Update
Brother Timothy Jolly wears three AAA hats, and has just brought us up to date on them all.
As Prior of the Mariya u Mama we Themba Monastery outside Grahamstown in South Africa, he oversees the Scholarship Fund conducted by the Order of the Holy Cross. “Holy Cross is now working with 44 young people, ranging from pre-school to university as well as conducting our Retreat House and Conference Centre. Most afternoons we have around 20-30 of these young folk with us in the rooms set aside for their studies. Three qualified volunteers help with their work.
He also sends funds on for us to two other Orders, one in Mozambique, the other in Madagascar. “There are 7 sisters in Maciene (Mozambique). They conduct a children’s crčche and take assistance to patients in the hospital next door. Much time is occupied with AIDS orphans and these in particular, need to stay at the Convent. During Lent each year, they have a focus on the elderly and distribute clothes and food.
“As you can see, the sisters very generously share their meagre resources with others, and we are trying to help them obtain their own bank account. Because they have no property this is difficult and funds which go through the Diocese Office move painfully slowly.
“Much the same applies to the Sisters in Madagascar. They too, are poor and the local Church can do little to help their work. Many rely on their small clinic for medical help and there are numerous children who come to the Convent for just about everything. I have been designated to attend to the improvement of their financial situation and will keep you informed.”
In his letter, Brother Timothy stresses two things: The wonderful work being done; and the fact that it cannot be supported in developing countries by local funding. Without outside help nearly everything he outlines would cease. Surely this must not be allowed to happen.
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HIV in Children “Each day, some 1500
children under 15 years of age become infected with HIV, an estimated 90% of
who live in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2005, there were
2.3 million (1.7–3.5 million) children living with HIV worldwide, most of
whom acquired the virus while in the womb, during birth or while being
breastfed - ways of contracting HIV that can be prevented.” World
Health Organisation (WHO), Taking
Stock: HIV in children. September
2006 |
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The Merle Werne Memorial Fund for
Water – An Update
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This quarter, $1,500 went to Bishop Terry Brown on the Island of Malaita in the Solomons. Bishop Brown has an ambitious project to place a water tank in every village in his Diocese as water-borne diseases are a major health hazard in this area.
At least 2, possibly 3, tanks will result from this latest gift.
Tanks were also installed in Sovenga and Grahamstown in South Africa.
May we commend this ongoing memorial to you, our members.
Western Eyes View African Answers
A dusty dirt road runs beside the Convent of the (American-based) Sisters of St Mary at Luwinga in Malawi. Passing vehicles send clouds of the red dust so typical of much of Africa over the security fence where they coat the simple buildings with a reddish tinge and blend them into the Malawian landscape.
It is a sign of just how well this Convent, with its ten (10) young African nuns has fitted into the local community. Mother Miriam, on a visit from the USA recorded a few thoughts on this subject for AAA.
“When I was there in July, I saw the pump fully functional and able to supply – not just the Convent compound – but a long queue of neighbouring women with water to fill their five gallon buckets each morning. I wish I had my camera with me one morning when I encountered a line of women walking down our road with full buckets of clean water on their heads and happy smiles on their faces. Before the well was drilled, these women were taking water from a run-off stream near a tobacco auction house and Coca Cola bottling plant. Not a good source of drinking water.
“Currently we are working on a facility to accommodate visitors. When finished, it will enable the Sisters to take groups of women or girls for week-long conferences on better agricultural methods. The Sisters studied bio-sensitive agriculture while in America, double digging by hand, compost making, green manure, crop rotation and diversification, drip irrigation and erosion control. They will use the convent land to teach these skills once they have a place for their students to stay.
“Even hiring local men for the construction work is as much a service to the community, as the outreach education program. The people are so poor and have few opportunities to earn a living. Particularly needy families are included in a food distribution scheme as the gardens produce more than we need. A tailoring business has been started and a tailor hired to make clergy shirts and Mothers’ Union uniforms. The revenue supports him and his family and gives a small profit to the Convent.
“As the Sisters are part of the culture, they understand the needs from the inside in ways that Westerners cannot anticipate. What I saw them doing all seems so very simple but it is highly effective.”
Mother Miriam conveyed the thanks of her nuns for AAA’s assistance for the well and advised that our latest gift will be helping with the building of the Guest House for the agricultural students.
Advancing Years
Since the mid 1960s the English-based Sisters of the Holy Name have laboured amongst the people of KwaZulu-Natal, mostly in rural areas. More recently, they have ventured into South Africa’s cities, and currently 2 of them are working in a depressed part of Johannesburg where their work is rapidly transforming a whole neighbourhood.
Today, the Sisters, numbering around 60 are all South African-born and together with their fellow nuns in Lesotho, constitute an important arm of the Church’s social welfare outreach in their respective countries.
Unfortunately, they face a major problem – and it is a very big one. Their main house at KwaMagwaza is old, very crowded and poorly situated. Thick fogs and a moist climate have caused considerable deterioration of the buildings and now that several of the Sisters are elderly, it has become something of a health hazard. Even more worrying is the fact that the Convent is isolated and recent months have seen several “raids” on its crops and equipment.
After much consideration, the only practical course appears to be a move to the nearby town of Melmoth which is still well within reach of schools, hospitals and other facilities where some Sisters are working. Such a project has been costed and presents a financial impossibility for these hardworking and dedicated nuns.
Mother Bonakele says, “I am writing to you just to share with you our situation and appealing to our friends to help us make this necessary move a reality.” It is possibly a good time to ask as the South African Rand is running at almost 6 to the Australian dollar.
Meanwhile, she adds, “Our Isasa project for the AIDS orphans is doing very well. Zinhle, the girl staying with us is getting unwell again and her condition is deteriorating.” (Zinhle is an AIDS orphan with no available family and has a number of AIDS-related health problems. Ed)
AAA first made contact with the Sisters almost 30 years ago and they have been valued and valuable co-workers in South Africa. If they are to continue their selfless work they will need our help, both now and in the future.
Early in June, a letter arrived from the Tanzanian government requiring the Sisters of St Mary to build a ‘recovery ward’ where patients could rest after treatment at the Sayuni Msima Clinic.
Sister Martha takes up the
story: “We told them we had no money so we received a small
grant but it was much too little for what was needed. Your gift arrived just in time and we
were able to pay the builder the one million and eight-nine thousand
shillings that were owing. The
money left over went to our tree nursery and St Asnath, who is in charge of
that work was very grateful.” Her letter continues, “Our Sisters in Dar-es-Salaam have
been caring for orphans in conjunction with Mothers’ Union. We bought some good second-hand clothes,
sugar, soap, and school exercise books and went out of town to Bwawani
where there are many orphaned children.
They were so happy when they received these gifts as nobody else is
helping them.” Thanks to your generosity, Christmas arrived early at
Sayuni Msima and Bwawani.
What Our Help Has Achieved
In late October, a comprehensive report arrived from the Oratory of the Good Shepherd in South Africa. It outlines enormous growth over the past twelve months and attributes a lot of this to the regular help they are receiving from us.
Our co-worker, Father Thami Shange wished to bring us up-to-date. There are now 16 Brothers with more in the process of joining the Oratory and these are all part of a growing network of social services being conducted in KwaZulu-Natal Province. They are ably assisted by a large number of Associates, both men and women and by the local Parishes and the Mothers Union.
With the help of our Burse Fund, they have room for training some of the new entrants but are still awaiting the completion of the second house which the Diocese has given them.
His report is as follows. “Our computer school is now self-reliant and is fully managed by the Parish of the Epiphany at Osizweni. It is producing graduates who are able to find employment in South Africa’s tight job market.
“The vegetable gardens we established at Osizweni are doing well but we still need help financially because the bulk of the produce is used to feed the orphans and other children at St Hilda’s Centre.
“Also at Osizweni we have a Catering Committee which was started to provide employment for young women. It has been so successful that they are now making a decent living from the proceeds.
“St Hilda’s HIV/AIDs Centre has grown tremendously. There are now two separate departments. Our Drop In Centre is largely self-funding and caters for older children, teenagers and young adults. The Day Care Centre is for smaller children and babies and this is not yet financially viable. We still need a lot of help with these.
“At Umlazi, we have started a second project called Zamimpilo HIV/AIDs Committee. This group is composed of professional nurses and as part of their commitment they provide care for the sick in their own homes. They donate food to the needy and organise nourishing meals for orphans who survive when the parents pass away. We also receive food from local businesses and our Brothers organise the packing and distribution of food parcels over a wide area. Some of the children often visit our House. We started to look after many of them when they were only 2 – 3 months old and now they are going to school. These are mostly not HIV positive.
“We are constantly asked to take on more and more work and as our Brothers are trained, we shall look at these possibilities.”
You will find his words of thanks in our Editorial.
Volunteers and Housekeeping
This year, we have welcomed: Miss Joan Erickson - Treasurer; Mrs Glenda Murell - Secretarial duties; Miss Deborah Cook - Newsletter production and overseas correspondence; Father Michael Chiplin OGS and Sister Rosalind NovSSA – Assistance with accounts; Mrs Pam Woolcock – Garage Sales who have joined our existing volunteers: Father Doug Wellington – Dispatch of receipts and general assistance; Mrs Colleen Whittall – Second-hand jewellery sales; and Mr Anthony Noble – Shipments for the Solomon Islands.
In our February issue, we hope we can restore much of our financial reporting but you will find a start earlier in this Newsletter. Many thanks for gifts of second hand costume jewellery, foreign and local stamps, goods for the Solomon Islands and money for the cards we send overseas. These are all very helpful.
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From Our Correspondence As always our mail bag for the Quarter is packed with reports and
requests for help. Here is a sample
to help keep you up-to-date. |
Appropriately, with Christmas approaching, we begin our journey across AAA work with a visit to the Holy Land where our correspndent is our co-worker, Sister Vreni of the Sisters of Emmanuel. She writes, “You will be delighted to know that the result of the 12th grade final examiniation (Tawjihi) was outstanding. All of the students were successful and the average mark in the Science stream was 90%. Many of our students will continue their education at Birzeit University. Our new school year commenced on 25 August with almost 700 children on our Home and School Compound.”
From Fiji, we hear from Sister Alina of the Sisters of the Sacred Name who is in charge of St Christopher’s Home, “We are fortunate to have so many friends and they have been very generous to us in recent months. All of the children are well and rejoicing in the presence of so many young people amongst our visitors. Three students from the International School have volunteered to help the children with their reading and homework and 10 students from Suva Grammar have commenced Community Service at the Home. Please convey our thanks to the members of AAA for continuing to be good friends of St Christopher’s.”
St Luke’s Hospital at Chilema in Malawi has launched an appeal to obtain more bed linen. Mr Anthony Chilembwe fills us in on some of the details. “Just to answer our current needs we have to purchase 618 pairs of bedsheets and 776 blankets which will cost the hospital 1,394,700 Kwachas. (Ed: There are around 110 – 120 K to an Australian Dollar.) Our reason for this appeal is that it is difficult for us to meet infection prevention standards in all of our hospital departments, and it is now two years since we have been able to purchase linen. We have had to focus on the purchase of drugs and the prices for these tend to increase rapidly because of the instability of our currency.” (Ed: Blankets cost approximately AUD12 each and sheets AUD8 per pair.)
Despite rising fuel costs, our Capetown co-worker, Fr Michael continues his errands of mercy. “Three times a week I take the Ford delivery truck, which AAA helped us buy, and collect food donated by retailers and then deliver it to poor residents in Cape Flats Township. This work took on added urgency when continuous heavy rain triggered extensive flooding in the areas I cover.”
To work at Fiwila Mission in Zambia, one has to be multi-talented, or so it seems from Sister Jane’s email. “We have continued to render help to the community at Fiwila. Our involvement includes pre-school teaching, helping conduct a rural health centre and working in the Mission Shop. Some Sisters work on our Nutrition and Better Farming Project. Here we keep chickens, ducks, goats and pigs and teach ecologically-better ways of growing the subsistence farming crops. There is also what we call our “Survival Skills Project”, where we teach knitting, tailoring, cooking and the elements of a balanced diet.” It seems the Sisters of St Mary are a busy lot!
Our final word comes from Sister Hilary of the Community of the Transfiguration. “Conditions are bad here in the Dominican Republic after the recent hurricane but we know you will remember us. A blessed Christmas to you all.”
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The
AAA Committee and volunteers would like to wish all of our friends,
supporters, co-workers every blessing for the Christmas season and ask that
you remember those we support around the world at this time of year. |
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PRAYER
REQUESTS
PLEASE
PRAY FOR:
The
people of Haiti, the Dominican Republic,
Mexico and Central America whose homes and livelihoods have been destroyed
by a recent hurricane.
Requested by Sr Maree
Margaret (Sisters of St Margaret, Haiti); Fr Jean (Parish Priest, Haiti) and Sr
Hilary (Sisters of the Transfiguration, Dominican Republic).
St
Luke’s Hospital at Chelima in Malawi as
it struggles to provide good health care with minimal resources in the midst of
an expanding HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Requested by Mr Anthony
Chilembwe (Hospital Administrator, Malawi)
Expansion
of the tree nursery to provide native trees as well as trees for fruit and
timber to help reforest Western Tanzania
with a view to preventing the increasing land degradation.
Requested by Sr Martha
(Sisters of St Mary, Tanzania)
Two
groups of young men, the Brothers of the Love of God, Liberia and the Community of St Augustine, South Africa, who have come together to serve God and the poor in
their respective countries.
Requested by Fr Leonard
Abbah (Order of the Holy Cross, Ghana) and Bishop Dino Gabriel (Bishop of
Zululand, South Africa)
The
Sisters of the Holy Name facing the need to leave their fast-deteriorating
buildings at KwaMagwaza in South Africa and build a new convent in
a safer area, that help may be forthcoming to enable an early move.
Requested by Mother Bonakele
(Sisters of the Holy Name, South Africa)
Safe
journeying for the food-distribution truck through some of the crime-ridden
areas of Capetown, South Africa where
car-jacking is a common occurrence. Requested by Fr Michael (Priest, South
Africa)
A
good response to this year’s Christmas Appeal from all around the country.
Requested by the AAA
Committee, Brisbane.
PLEASE
GIVE THANKS FOR:
Very pleasing results for the
academic year gained by the students at the Church school at Ramallah and for
continuing good enrolments. Requested by Sr Vreni (Sisters of Emmanuel,
West Bank, Israel)
The willingness of young
members of the Melanesian Brothers to undertake work in isolated and difficult
situations both in their homeland and overseas, particularly for those working
on Bellona & Tasman Islands.
Requested by Br Caul Weris (Melanesian Brotherhood, Solomon
Islands)
Improved conditions for the
boys at St Martins Orphanage, Nagpur and their sponsorship at school as a
result of assistance from AAA. Requested by Fr Y Sagar (India)
The love of the Sisters of St
Paul at Maciene who, though exceedingly poor themselves, are always willing to
share what they have and do without, so that others may be helped.
Requested by Br Timothy Jolly (Order of the Holy
Cross, South Africa)
A year of many blessings for
the work of AAA and for so many friends in Australia and overseas who
participate in our work. Requested by AAA Committee, Brisbane.
Oh
God, our Heavenly Father, Who didst send Thine only begotten Son into this
world to teach us to love one another, grant that the Missionaries of St Andrew
and their co-workers may so faithfully obey His command that all people may
live free from want, in peace and security, through the same Jesus Christ Our
Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, world
without end. AMEN
Would
Priest members kindly remember our work at the Altar and also those who
distribute funds and those who receive them.
Please
pray for the departed members of those religious orders, which act as our
co-workers:
U Mother Mary Basil Gilbert
(Sisters of St Mary USA)
U Brother Jon Bankert (Society
of St Francis USA)
U Father Anthony Stevens
(Order of the Holy Cross, Liberia)
And our late member,
U Monty Berry (Queensland).
FORM OF BEQUEST
I give the
sum of ………... … (or ……% of the residue of my Estate) to the Missionaries of St
Andrew – Anglican Aid Abroad – for charitable purposes of that organisation and
I declare that the receipt of the secretary or treasurer for the time being
will be an absolute discharge of my trustee/s who will not be liable to the
application of those funds.
DIRECT CREDITS
A safe and inexpensive way of sending your gift is to make a deposit at any WESTPAC BRANCH to our Account at Morningside:
U MISSIONARIES OF ST ANDREW – ANGLICAN AID
ABROAD 034 058 58 0656
U Or use the INTERNET.
If you need a receipt
(for tax purposes) or acknowledgement in the newsletter, please write to tell
us your name, details of the deposit and enclose a self-addressed
envelope. If you intend the donation
for a special project, please let us know, so we can designate it accordingly.
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work of* ………………………. ………………………………………………… (iv)
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donors may like to use this slip when sending gifts.
If you
require a receipt, please enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope.
OUR POLICY: NO
ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS DEDUCTED FROM OVERSEAS GIFTS.
Gifts of $2 and more to AAA’s overseas work are tax
deductible.
WEBSITE:
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