WORLDWIDE PROJECTS
Literacy and Development Programmes in Burundi, Malawi and the Sudan. The knowledge equips learners to make more informed decisions in their lives.

The Family Life Programme is currently piloting in 31 Diocese in Uganda. It's aim is to improve the quality of life for the most needy. It encourages all sectors of the community, young and old, those with faith and those without to participate. Finding resources to buy food is a daily challenge. Model homes are set up and groups are encouraged to grow crops for consumption and to raise seed for re-growing. They are also taught how to care for livestock. Goats provide offspring and milk. Cookery lessons form part of the project too. The Family Life Programme is having a massive effect on the lives of the poorest people by building up their knowledge.

Relief Fund: The Mothers' Union relief plays a vital role in fulfilling the aim and objects of the MU, especially the objective to support and assist those whose lives have met with adversity. Just some of the countries to benefit from this fund between September 2005 and July of this year are; Kenya, where millions faced starvation due to prolonged drought; Burundi, where MU money helped to buy rice, beans and maize. Malawi suffered from a hunger crisis, again helped by MU relief fund. Congo, Uganda, Florida, Zambia, Tanzania, Bethlehem and Gaza. Each one a recipient of MU help, either in goods or money. So far in 2006 the Mothers' Union has sent Relief Fund grants totalling over £113,500 to help communities in need.

World Wide Parenting Programme: This project was started in 2004 in parts of Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and the West Indies. The programme aims to equip communities to extend their parenting skills, build relationships and contribute to the stability of family life in society.

If you would like more information then please contact Gillian Berry on 01473 298511