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Special APW/MWF Project

2008/9 Special APW/MWF Project

The major part of this year’s project is to aid The Hearing Association of New Zealand’s Communication Project.  Hearing loss is a huge handicap to ordinary people.  This project will see us provide the relevant information about hearing loss to both our members and the general public, and hopefully make help affordable.  This project will consist of a number of smaller projects that utilize different media approaches.

The overseas component of the Special Project will support women in Lauru, Solomon Islands.  (More information coming soon.) For more information contact Rae Simpson, I.r.simpson(at)xtra.co.nz

2007/8 Special APW/MWF Project

The APW/MWF Special Project, Opening Doors will support overseas, the Christian World Service partner, The House of Passage in Brazil and in New Zealand, the Churches’ Education Commission’s programme for chaplaincy in state schools. 

The House of Passage opened in the city of Recife in the Northeast of Brazil in 1989 to attempt to meet the needs of young girls living on the streets or in the slums.  The House successfully continues to provide basic needs, such as good meals, as well as training in life skills and vocational skills for these girls who live in extreme poverty, violence and abuse.  Its programmes have now been extended to provide for boys as well.

The Churches’ Education Commission, in its Christian Education programme in primary schools and its Chaplaincy programme in primary and secondary schools aims to enable students to make good life choices.  The Special Project will provide funding for the ongoing training and support of these voluntary chaplains. For further information contact Rae Simpson, I.r.Simpson(at)xtra.co.nz

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