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21-May-1997 
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               Self-Development of People Committee 
              Approves 15 Projects Totaling $353,001 
 
                         by Julian Shipp 
 
CHARLESTON, S.C.--During its May 16-17 meeting here, the National 
Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People (SDOP) approved 15 
projects totaling $353,001. Money for the projects comes from the One Great 
Hour of Sharing offering. 
 
     "The national Self-Development of People staff has been very busy 
helping carry out the work of this ministry and very much involved in 
working to help fulfill the national committee's three-year interpretation 
program," said the Rev. Fredric T. Walls, SDOP director. "Self-Development 
is a two-way street, and there is much for the church to learn from our 
meeting and development work with people around the world."  
 
     The projects validated and approved for funding are 
 
Punguza-Shida Self-Help Enterprise, Ludewa Village, Tanzania--$460 for a 
village-based agricultural project aimed at implementing mechanized farming 
techniques using a multipurpose tractor. 
 
Atoyiengo Horticultural Project, Kisummu, Nyanza, Kenya--$9,200 for a 
horticultural and agronomic farming group in order to raise their level of 
nutrition and well-being by growing onions, tomatoes, legumes and other 
vegetables. 
 
Jokosodo Self-Help Group, Homa Bay, Kenya--$4,250 to dig a small dam for 
the farming of fish. 
 
The Lord is My Shepherd Dressmaking Enterprise, Accra, Ghana--$26,300 for 
more than 25 unemployed women who have organized themselves into a group 
developing a dressmaking enterprise. 
 
Kawu Cassava Growers Association, Akpafu-Memepeasem, Ghana--$6,700 for a 
project of growing cassava on a large scale for processing into other 
usable forms. 
 
Amamteker Mixed Farm and Fish Farming, Kawo-Kachulmbala, Kumi, 
Uganda--$26,591 for a farming project organized by a group of women  to 
alleviate hunger, poverty, illiteracy and disease. 
 
Tailoring Training with Production Centre as an Income-Generating 
Programme, Cuddapah District, South India--$5,900 for a group of women who 
wish to be trained in tailoring and needlework with the aim of producing 
and selling ready-made clothes. 
 
Vegetable and Crop Producers Association, Labadi-Accra, Ghana--$17,600 for 
a water system and power tillers that will enable the members in growing 
vegetable year-round and ultimately selling their products for import. 
 
Prison Action Committee, Chicago, Ill.--$30,000 for a program that provides 
education and vocational opportunities, job and income potential and 
low-income housing for recently released and current prisoners. 
 
 
East End Disabilities Group, East Hampton, N.Y.--$30,000 for a low-income 
advocacy group to organize and assert their rights in their communities in 
dealing with government, institutions, business, landlords and others who 
have tended to ignore their needs and in effect exclude them from the 
mainstream. They mostly try to inform, persuade and encourage those in 
authority to carry out the laws as prescribed in the Americans with 
Disabilities Act of 1990. 
 
Tri-Community Council, Portland, Maine,--$45,000 for a group of low-income 
public housing residents from three complexes who seek to provide education 
and employment skills training so that they can impact the community in 
which they live by helping residents to obtain jobs. 
 
Sagamore Growers and Food Cooperative, Portland, Maine--$50,000 for a 
project to allow low- income public housing members to grow and sell 
produce from their garden, teach other residents how to garden and return a 
portion of the profit to the cooperative so it can expand. 
 
Woodlawn Community Land Trust, Clairfield, Tenn.--$31,000 for a four-year 
plan to support people involved in sustainable forest management and the 
building of native materials housing. 
 
Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 
Calif.--$40,000 to conduct a series of public actions to clean up toxic 
waste sites in south-central Los Angeles. 
 
Indochinese Housing Development Corporation, San Francisco, Calif.--$30,000 
for an association established by tenants living in two housing units in 
San Francisco's Tenderloin District. The tenants, who are predominantly 
Southeast Asian refugees and immigrants, will be provided ESL (English as a 
Second Language) classes, job training and other survival training that 
will help them to eventually become self-sufficient. 

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