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More disaster aid from FELM to Ethiopia (25.8.2011)
- FELM Disaster Aid Fund has granted another amount of disaster aid worth 70,000 euros to help the drought victims in Ethiopia. The entire sum of aid is now 140,000 euros. The new amount is a response to the lengthened need for help and the rise in corn prices.
- The famine aid given by FELM for Ethiopia was delivered to Gasara in the southeastern region of the country at the beginning of August. The aid was taken there by the Mekane Yesus Church.
- FELM Disaster Fund will grant 70,000 euros of disaster aid for the victims of the drought in Ethiopia. The aim is to help particularly those in the most vulnerable position and to stimulate local food production.
- “The Gomaro are sly. They subjugate us and deceive us,” say the Manja about the Gomaro. “The Manja people are beasts. If we don’t keep them in their place, they will kill us”, say the Gomaro in turn about the Manja. Speaking ill of the other group is common, and this imagery is nurtured and propagated by spreading stories that confirm the misconceptions.
- Mr. Kimmo Kosonen has a goal in his life. Employed by FELM in Thailand, he works there as a Multilingual Education Consultant. His aim is to make education in the vernaculars the right of every single child in every Asian country.
- The entire FELM Co-operation Programme 2007-2010 has been evaluated as efficient and able to produce results. The final assessment was conducted by an independent Finnish consulting company called Alexander Koulutus, which estimated how productive and effective the programme was in relation to its main goals.
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FELM begins family life education in Jerusalem (20.5.2011)
- At the beginning of 2011, FELM initiated a programme supporting family life education in Jerusalem, one based on Christian values. The programme is meant to strengthen the basic structure of the society and the church, as well as the family, the cornerstone of society.
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President Tarja Halonen at the roots of mission (15.3.2011)
- President Tarja Halonen made an official state visit to Namibia on Feb 21-23. The last day of the visit was spent in Northern Namibia, in Amboland, where the first Finnish missionaries arrived in 1870.
- FELM Disaster Fund has granted 50,000 euros for assisting the flood victims in Colombia, as well as 20,000 euros for the victims of an explosion of an ammunition warehouse near Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.
- The annual FELM Equal Share Campaign begins once more at the Vernal Equinox. The result of the 2011 Campaign will be used to help the lower caste of Nepal, that is the Dalits, as well as the disabled there, to improve their level of education and their access in the health care, and to develop their means of living. The aim is to offer an increasing number of children the chance to have basic education and vocational training.
- A year ago, the news from the Christian hospital in Tank in Pakistan were not very promising. The long-term physician of the hospital, Dr. Ulla Schmitz from Germany, had died suddenly in August, and even the last physician, Dr. Becky Eiwen from the USA, had decided to return to her native country. The hospital could only barely function, with what the nurses there were able to do. Now the news are better.
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Africa employing new means in AIDS work (1.12.2010)
- New winds are blowing in the AIDS work in Africa, and the solution is now sought after from a new kind of model for manhood and from family work.
- The flood waters have lowered in Northwestern Pakistan, but the distress is not over. The same miserable story is repeated in one family after another. Homes have been destroyed, properties lost, and the future looks very uncertain. A FELM partner, the Peshawar Diocese, is continuing the distribution of immediate disaster aid, but reconstruction plans are also beginning to take shape.
- World AIDS Day will be observed on Dec 1. Its purpose is to remind people of the multifaceted problem, as well as to increase awareness about HIV. The World Health Organisation (WHO) began to celebrate World AIDS Day in 1988.
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