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26-September-1996 
 
 
96371     Self-development of People Funds Four Projects 
 
                         by Julian Shipp 
 
LINCOLN, Neb.--The national Presbyterian Committee on the 
Self-Development of People (SDOP) funded four projects totaling $66,184 
during its Sept. 20-21 meeting here. Money for the grants comes 
from the One Great Hour of Sharing offering. 
 
     The funded projects: 
 
     Small Scale Industry Project, Gatyanga Women's Club, Kilembe, Uganda: 
$7,834 for a small-scale industry in which poor women in the Ugandan 
community process maize products. 
 
     Poverty and Hunger Reduction, Gbledi-Gborgame Women's Association, 
Gbledi-Gborgame, Via Hohoe, Volta Region, Ghana: $8,350 for a farming 
project in which women of the Gbledi-Gborgame Women's Association will 
improve their farming procedures to reduce an acute food 
shortage and in the process create income to lift themselves out of 
poverty. 
 
     Khmer Organizing Project, Coalition for a Better Acre, Lowell, Mass: 
$30,000 for a group of organized, low-income Cambodian adults and youth in 
Lowell, Mass., who seek to develop leadership 
and employment skills, obtain jobs, positively impact the community in 
which they live and secure the 
rights to which they are entitled. 
 
     Workers Training Project for Change, Toledo, Ohio: $20,000 for a group 
of low-income Mexican farmers organized in northern Ohio for the purpose of 
helping Mexican farm workers and their 
families who live under poor conditions. The project trainers teach the 
families their rights, inform them 
about wages and available child care, and educate the crop owners. 
 
     Organized after the 182nd General Assembly (1970) of the former United 
Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, SDOP is a ministry 
that works to empower poor, oppressed and disadvantaged people who are 
seeking to change the structures that perpetuate poverty, oppression and 
injustice. 
 
     SDOP receives the majority of its funds from the One Great Hour of 
Sharing offering given annually during Lent by Presbyterians nationwide. 
This ecumenical offering provides SDOP the opportunity to enter into 
partnerships with communities worldwide. It also supports the Presbyterian 
Hunger Program and Presbyterian World Service. 

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