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24 self-help projects funded
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January 28, 2004

24 self-help projects funded

SDOP disburses $401,000 at home and abroad

by Evan Silverstein

NEW ORLEANS - The Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People
(SDOP) has approved grants totaling $400,980 to 24 self-help projects in the
United States and around the world.

	The money is from the One Great Hour of Sharing offering.

	The national SDOP, which met here Jan. 23-24, enables members and
non-members of the Presbyterian Church (USA) to form partnerships with
oppressed and disadvantaged people in order to help them achieve
self-sufficiency.

	The projects and grants:

* American United Forces, Sioux City, IA, $20,000 to an immigrants' co-op
that makes and sells a range of products.

* Grass Roots Organizing (GRO), Mexico, MO, $35,000 to support a group that
advocates for equal access to basic healthcare without regard to ability to
pay.

* Valley Transportation, Valley, NE, $32,100 to a non-profit co-op that
provides transportation for elderly and disabled people.

* Empower Women To Be Self-Sufficient, Raices Latinas, Holyoke, MA, $35,000
to a group that provides training, education and guidance to low-income
Latino women.

* Excalaber Cards Development Group, Roxbury, MA, $20,000 to a greeting-card
business operated by 10 former prison inmates.

*  Food Not Bombs, Rochester, NY, $25,000 to improve food-handling and
storage facilities and educational and recreational space for a project that
aids the poor and oppressed.

* Citizens For A Better Greenville, Greenville, MS, $15,000 to a group that
helps low-income people address their problems through political and economic
action.

* The Northside Neighborhood Council, Palatka, FL, $17,655 to provide
training and seed grants to low-income business people in minority
communities.

* The Southside Community Center, Lancaster, SC, $14,000 to be used to buy
and renovate a building for use as a community center for low-income people,
especially single parents and seniors.

* The Parents of Children's World, Laurinburg, NC, $9,000 to help a
multicultural group of low-income parents correct plumbing problems at a
preschool/daycare facility.

* The Women's Collective, San Francisco, CA, $15,000 to provide training in
social skills, safety and "job-survival English" to low-income Latino women.

* Casa del Pueblo Cooperative, Los Angeles, CA, $20,000 to a group of
unemployed and low-income immigrants that operates a health-products store.

* Rio Bravo Residents Association, Albuquerque, NM, $15,000 to help
low-income residents organize to improve housing conditions.

* The Bakersfield Performing Arts and Philanthropic Society, Bakersfield, CA,
$19,575 to a collective of 27 performing artists.

* Fruit Farmer, Rio Chico Andino, Machanchaca, Huaura, Peru, $16,800 to
irrigate orchards controlled by a cooperative of 80 farmers.

* Femme Debout (Standing Woman), Masina, Kinshasa, Congo, $16,500 to help pay
for a flour mill where Congolese women can grind and store their own maize,
manioc and soya and work toward self-sustenance.

* ACEN Widows Concern (ACW), Apac, Uganda, $9,130 to help a
subsistence-farming organization of widows and young people improve a
goat-raising operation.

* Kinshasa Pig Farm Association, Kinshasa, Congo, $9,120 to help buy 800
square meters of land and build a complex of pig pens.

* Indira Mahila Self Help Group, Cuddapah District, India, $8,945 to a group
of women who break up stone and make gravel for sale to builders.

* Christians Together Against Poverty (CRECOP), Kinshasa, Congo, $12,170 to a
cooperative that produces chickens and eggs.

* Sewing Project, Young Orphans, Khartoum, Sudan, $6,600 to be used to buy
equipment and materials for a sewing cooperative formed by a group of 13
orphans.

* Chimbenas Women's Association in Action, San Jose de Chimbo, Bolivar,
Ecuador, $5,885 for a sewing machine to be used in a micro-business that
makes and sells clothing.

* Development Committee "El Rincon," San Martin Jilotepeque, Chimaltenango,
Guatemala, $12,500 to help a group of landowners restore deforested land and
build cooking stoves that conserve wood and improve family health.

* Cooperativa Agro-Pecuaria de Nyamatona, Chimoia, Mozambique, $11,000 to
enable 15 low-income families to raise and grow enough food to sustain them
for one year.

	The national committee also authorized 21 presbytery-level and four
synod-level SDOP committees to allocate funds to local projects within their
bounds.

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