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Long Live Rainbow School! (25.9.2007)
- The Rainbow School for handicapped and autistic children in Lushoto, Tanzania, encourages parents to bring their handicapped children for a consultation and to receive support. Rainbow School is one of the projects for this autumn's fund raising campaign Equal Sharing.
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Echos from the FELM Annual Festival (5.7.2007)
- The FELM Annual Festival was celebrated early June in the town of Hyvinkää by more than 13 000 participants.
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Help for Chinese earthquake victims (5.7.2007)
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The FELM promotes Fair Trade (5.7.2007)
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African peace activist women visited Finland (5.7.2007)
- A current fundraising campaign of the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission, Equal Sharing, supports basic education in line with the FELM 2007 theme”Help to learn”.
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A new funding contract (26.4.2007)
- The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland has made a new funding contract of 25 841 495 euros with the FELM for its development co-operation in 2007–2010.
- The director of the FELM Seppo Rissanen and his colleague in the FinnChurchAid Antti Pentikäinen left an appeal for the 0.7% target to the leading Finnish parties before they agreed on the new government programme.
- ACT Development is an alliance of church organizations mandated to work in development. It’s formed by 55 Southern and Northern organizations working in 157 countries.
- The ”Christmas present for mission” -fundraising drive of the FELM ended in February. Its total return of 585 218 euros will be used in support of the Lutheran Church of Angola. Some 10% of the returns will be directed to work for peace and reconciliation in different countries.
- The national Mission Festival of the FELM takes place from 8th till 10th of June in Hyvinkää with the theme of international responsibility.
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Ten theses of mission work challenge debate (15.2.2007)
- The FELM challenges clergy to ponder about the meaning of mission work and encourage them to see its possibilities in their every-day action. To stimulate this, ten debate theses about mission work have been published. The aim is to generate versatile and vivid debate.
- "While public financing for NGO-led development projects increases, the FELM widens its action correspondingly", stated the executive director of the FELM Seppo Rissanen in January.
- Finnish parliamentary elections take place in March. The FELM encourages congregations to organize public debates with candidates for parliament.
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