Spring '09 Update
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Celebrate!!!
Seeds of Hope has now provided clean
water to over 250,000 people ! |
Schauer Family Moving to Zambia — A Note from Kirk & Denise
This past fall God blessed us by awarding SHIP a three year contract with Blood Water Mission. Simultaneously SHIP Zambia received a two year grant through the Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST) in partnership CIDA (the Canadian equivalent to USAID). This will enable SHIP to become a center of expertise in water quality for Africa. Both of these grants are a result of the growing reputation of the work we are doing in Zambia.
As you can imagine these projects come with a great responsibility. Almost overnight SHIP has grown into a complex organization. We are running to catch up and build the needed infrastructure to sustain all the amazing things God has done. In this time of transition, we feel it is necessary to come along side our Zambian teams, partnering with them to facilitate this accelerated growth. We will help mentor our staff, oversee the Blood:Water Mission proposal and assist with the oversight of the CIDA grant. We will be leaving for Zambia April 19th and will return in November, at which time we will reassess whether we are needed here or in Zambia. We are excited to be able to further strengthen our relationship with SHIP staff and people of the community. We are so thankful for the doors that God has opened and for his provision.
Thank you for your prayers and support,
Kirk and Denise Schauer
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Denise, Kirk, and Halleigh Schauer
If you would like to personally support Kirk and Denise monthly or in their move to Zambia please specify “Project: Move to Zambia” on your donation check memo line. |
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SHIP Training in Zimbabwe
SHIP is continuing to help our friends in need in Zimbabwe. Our Lusaka director, Evans Chiyenge, CAWST partner, Tal Woolsey, iWASH head trainer, Flavia Feruka, and team have just been in Zimbabwe teaching the process of bio-sand filter production and installation, and the iWASH program to organizations and churches in communities that lack clean water and are suffering from significant cholera outbreaks. The Zimbabwe Minister of Water Affairs and the Minister of Health attended the final day of the workshop and were so impressed with the bio-sand filter they invited our team back the next week to present the technology at a local water summit. We feel God’s blessing on our outreach to this needy country and hope to have more doors open for us. In light of the desperate need that is rising in Zimbabwe we are asking for your continued support to fund these life saving interventions. |
New SHIP US Staff
We’d like to introduce our new SHIP-US team:
Erin Reimer -Marketing Director
Brenda Gleason -Grant Manager
Christi Williams-Administration &
Project Manager
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NEWS FLASH:
Seeds of Hope Zambia was able to facilitate a World Water Day in Ndola, in which twelve high schools participated. Students from each high school were challenged to write a plan about how they can improve water, sanitation, and hygiene in their community. Pray that students would be inspired to bring change to their communities and that they will continue sharing with others what they have learned.
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Current Needs:
· Office Volunteers
· General Operating & Administration Funds
· Drilling Specialist
· Prayer for the Schauer family as they move to Zambia and transition into life over there
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World AG Expo: In February SHIP displayed a booth at the World Ag Expo in Tulare, CA to increase awareness of the water & agricultural crisis in Africa and to recruit new partners to work with us on our projects in Zambia. We pray that the seeds we sowed will grow into softened hearts for those in Zambia.
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SHIP Featured in Times of Zambia
God continues to bless Seeds of Hope with favor and a good name as we work to accomplish His purposes in Zambia. We are excited to have Seeds of Hope featured in this great article in the Times of Zambia last month!
“Seeds of Hope International Partnerships (SHIP) an American Christian non-governmental organization (NGO), has introduced bio-sand filters in several communities in Ndola and Lusaka where waterborne diseases such as cholera are a serious problem. “It has been of great help to my family. I don’t have to worry about the purity of my water,” said Grace Kunda, of Chipulukusu.” - Time of Zambia, ‘Communities Benefit from Biosand Filters’ by Gethsemane Mwizabi, February 24, 2009
For article link go to www.sohip.org/water |
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