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"UNITED METHODIST DAILY NEWS" by SUSAN PEEK on Aug. 11, 1991 at 13:58 Eastern,
about FULL TEXT RELEASES FROM UNITED METHODIST NEWS SERVICE (3059 notes).

Note 3056 by UMNS on July 12, 1996 at 16:54 Eastern (2391 characters).

SEARCH: mission, Zaire, refugees, missionaries, volunteers,
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CONTACT:  Ralph E. Baker                    342(10-21-31-71){3056}
          Nashville, Tenn. (615) 742-5470            July 12, 1996

EDITORS NOTE: This story may be a sidebar to UMNS Release #341
{3055}

Board provides equipment for dental clinic,
more tents for children's village in Zaire

by John Coleman Jr.*

     NEW YORK (UMNS) -- Arriving with the new team of volunteers
in Bukavu, Zaire, next week will be the first dental equipment for
a new clinic constructed there from a remodeled home. 
     The United Methodist Board of Global Ministries, here,
purchased the basic dentistry unit -- encompassing  everything
from drills and chairs to tongue depressors -- from The Chosen, an
Erie, Pa., organization that reconditions donated equipment for
mission use. The shipment also includes equipment for the clinic's
work in general medicine and ophthalmology.
     Meanwhile, the children's village in Goma will expand beyond
the 50 children -- Rwandan and Zairean -- it currently serves, as
soon as new tents, which arrived in June, are assembled and
anchored into the foundations.
     "UNICEF has asked us to take more children," said project
coordinator Richard Williams, "but we need more tents, and that
means more donations from supporting United Methodists."
     Concerned individuals and congregations that want to
contribute to this critical need should send donations through
their church treasurer to Advance Special #198000-6.
     The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) has received
a $2.8 million grant to provide firewood for more than 300,000
refugees in Bukavu. The agency will purchase wood from numerous
local suppliers and landowners, and distribute it in an attempt to
prevent further destruction of trees for firewood by refugees.
     In Uvira, UMCOR expects to treat more than 500 Burundian
mixed families of Hutu and Tutsi members, who cannot find
treatment elsewhere because of discrimination.
                              #  #  #
     * Coleman is a communications consultant to the United
Methodist Board of Global Ministries.

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