A scheme based on sacrifical giving, Caring and Sharing East Sussex, which raises money for 16 projects worldwide. Fistula Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, School For the Deaf, Dar- Es -Salaam, Tanzania, Work of Father Edwin Abanga, Bolgatanga, Ghana, You and Me clinic, Sudan, Pensions for clergy, Rwanda, Helwel Pre-Schools Feeding Programme, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, True Love Waits, KwaSiza Bantu Mission, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, Feeding Programme, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Casa Guatemala, 27 de Julio Nursery, Lima, Peru, Street Educators, Medellin, Colombia, Emanuel Crèche and Boys’ Farm, Olinda, Brazil, Day Care Centre, Ebenezer Home, Chennai, India, Little Flower Leprosy Village, Sunderpur, India, Church of North India Social Service Institute, Nagpur, India, Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed, Savar, Bangladesh





Work of Ian and Simea Meldrum, Olinda, Brazil
Ian and Simea Meldrum are Anglican priests in Olinda, a town on the western coast of Brazil, with a population of about half a million people. Simea’s church is called the Church of the Living Waters and it administers to people who live and work around the rubbish tip. It is so popular that it has been rebuilt and can now hold 450 people.

The Farm was started to help boys who live on the streets and is now called the Living Waters Institute. It is 20 km from Olinda and was originally an 80 acre coconut plantation. Youth camps, family camps and monthly prayer vigils are held here now. Families come from the tip and spend a weekend living and playing together as a family unit and are taught basic family skills. A Teen Brigade from the church comes out regularly to learn survival skills.

My Father’s House is a safe house which offers rehabilitation to boys who come from the tip area and are considered to be in a high-risk situation. They may have a father who is alcoholic and violent, or a mother who is a prostitute, while they may be starting to deal in drugs or to be sexually abused. The upper age limit is 12, though some boys at the House are older as they have nowhere else to go. The hope is to be able to send them to the Farm when a suitable couple has been found to be house parents there.


Children from the tip spent a day at the farm


Links
www.olindamission.no-ip.co.uk
http://andyandrose.posterous.com/

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