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Clean Water Projects
Rebuilding Southern Sudan: Safe Drinking Water - Latest update July 2010
Drilling boreholes to provide safe drinking wells for the returning refugees in southern Sudan. Also training people in sanitation and protection of wells from contamination.
Project: Sudan 98021
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Arsenic Alleviation Program - Latest update Feb 2010
Improves human health by providing water filters to families to eliminate naturally-occurring arsenic from drinking wells. Includes awareness raising and training.
Project: Bangladesh 98335
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Ethiopia Water
Trains local people to build and maintain water supplies, providing safe drinking water to communities.
Project: Ethiopia 92219
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Holistic Development
Fighting Poverty Among the Bokos - Latest update Apr 2010
Training for rabbit and pig farmers and improved agricultural methods, micro-business for income generation, medical clinic personnel, medicine and equipment and providing higher education to future leaders.
Project: Benin 68140
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Hope for the Forgotten Congo - Latest update Apr 2010
Meeting urgent physical, economic and social needs in eastern DRC and establishing orphan care, assistance for families living with HIV and safe water programs to improve health, food and income security.
Project: Republic of Congo 68150
CHETNA Community Health and Development - Latest update Mar 2010
Provision of health care and promotion, motivating and equipping people with knowledge and skills, so they may become ‘agents of change’ within their community.
Project: India 98260
Download Project UpdateKushtia Community Development - Latest update July 2010
Adult literacy classes, formation of cooperative savings groups and business skills training, preventative health training, and training farmers.
Project: Bangladesh 98226
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Girls Off the Street - Latest update Apr 2010
This project provides a holistic ministry in Dhaka city for street girls at risk of becoming sex workers. This ministry includes a drop-in-centre, training in life skills and character development, and counselling for those with traumatic life experiences. Opportunities for vocational training are also offered. The project provides a safe haven for these young people, including sanitary washing facilities, and an alternative to the perceived need for early marriage.
Project: Bangladesh 98336
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Food Security and Agriculture Projects
Sowing Seeds of Change in the Sahel - Latest update May 2010
(previously Maradi Integrated Development Program) Providing food security and nutrition through sustainable farming, forestry and land rehabilitation and improved health and sanitation through workshops with village women.
Project: Niger 97355
Download Project UpdateFood Sustainability in Famine Affected Areas - Latest update Apr 2010
Providing food security to drought-prone areas in the Rift Valley through irrigation, crop production, natural resource management training, improved farm technologies, non-farm income generation, drinking water and sanitation.
Project: Ethiopia 92507
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Forest Fruit and Forage for Farm Families - Latest update Mar 2010
Improves nutrition and reduces poverty by working with farmers and government agriculturalists to identify and propagate local plants for food, animal forage, firewood and other needs.
Project: Ethiopia 92235
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Famine Relief for Vulnerable Groups - Latest update Apr 2010
This project alleviates hunger and malnutrition by supplying food from neighbouring counties to the above mentioned groups and also raises their capacity to produce food for themselves with farming assistance and instruction.
Project: Zimbabwe 96388
Mursi Agriculture - Latest update Mar 2010
Teaches agricultural development skills to improve crop and animal production, generation of non-farm income and clean water supply.
Project: Ethiopia 92797
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HOPE for AIDS Projects
Coordination & Equipping of church AIDS program
Provides for the employment of a full-time coordinator and secretary/accountant who train and equip local church teams to coordinate and promote HOPE for AIDS activities.
Project: Burkina Faso 93881
Download Project UpdatePastoral Care and Family Life Education
Trainer couples from the 18 EE/SIM (Eglises Evangélique — SIM’s partner church) church regions were trained in pastoral care of those infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. They have gone on to train the remaining 150 pastor couples who have not received the training in these regions, as well as approximately 300 students in EE/SIM Bible Schools.
Project: Burkina Faso 93913 - (amalgamation of Project 93882 Family Life Education & 93884 Training of Pastors and Wives)
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Home-Based Care - Zimbabwe - Latest update Apr 2010
This project ministers to people living with HIV/AIDS by training church volunteers to minister to sick people and those looking after them. The sick are given assistance with ambulance fees, prescribed medicines, food and hospital fees. Voluntary Counselling and Testing is promoted throughout
the community, and those that test HIV positive are encouraged to form support groups to assist in living positively with HIV.
Project: Zimbabwe 96381
ACT (AIDS Control and Treatment)
This project improves awareness of the dangers of HIV/ AIDS to reduce the spread of HIV, minimise the discrimination against persons affected by the virus, care compassionately for those affected. This is achieved via an education program.
Project: India 98346
Hope for AIDS SHALOM Delhi - Latest update May 2010
Responding to people living with HIV in Delhi and the surrounding areas through: a clinic; volunteers providing home-based care; awareness-raising activities; and training in HIV interventions.
Project: India 98551
Hope for AIDS Master Project - Latest update May 2010
Resources HOPE for AIDS projects around the world, and directs funds to where they are most needed. Also provides resource materials and coordinates research and training for all participating countries.
Project: International 99383
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Orphans and Vulnerable Children - Latest update Apr 2010
The situation for children in Zimbabwe at this time is desperate. This project ministers to the many thousands of children vulnerable by the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Zimbabwe, either through the loss of a parent, or parents who are sick.
Project: Zimbabwe 96380 (formerly Project #96298)
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Orphan Care Program - Latest update June 2010
Caring for orphans through advocacy, nutrition, respite for carers and educational needs to ensure that these children are given a hope and a future. The project is also providing day care for children under five years of age. The day care centres ensure that this group receives the necessary nutrition
and pre-school education, and enables guardians to go to work.Project: Malawi 96255
Media Development for AIDS
Develops HIV/AIDS education material and a Biblical view of sexuality, using booklets and pamphlets, radio programs, audio cassettes and videos.
Project: Burkina Faso 93883
Download Project UpdateHIV/AIDS Reduction Program
Empowering people to look after others in their communities – includes the Deduza Orphan Home, a programme of HIV education at workplaces and resources for community care-giving.
Project: South Africa 97397
Download Project UpdateHome-Based Care Malawi - Latest update June 2010
Resourcing volunteers from community groups across the country with training in counselling, medicines and nutritional supplements, to care for HIV+ people in their community.
Project: Malawi 96253
Download Project UpdateHIV/AIDS Learning for Healthy Communities - Latest update June 2010
Training key SIM-related personnel through a program involving both a theoretical component and practical fieldwork under supervision, to care for HIV/AIDS sufferers and their children.
Project: International 99389
Download Project UpdateSkills Building in AIDS Ministries - Latest update May 2010
Increasing the skills of SIM and SIM partners in local communities to better implement SIM’s HIV/AIDS response framework – home-based care, orphan care and HIV/AIDS prevention.
Project: International 99388
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Operation Neighbour Care - Latest update July 2010
This project provides for those affected by HIV and AIDS in rural Gokwe, providing ongoing care by trained local volunteers as well as reducing the rate of infection through education, testing, and encouraging safe practices. Orphaned and vulnerable children, and their carers, are given access to food, shelter, education and safe healthy social interaction.
Project: Zimbabwe 90209
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Health Care Projects
Medical Personnel Development
To provide adequate and on-going training by the African Evangelical Church Medical Department so the Health Centres are supplied with much needed qualified staff.
Project: Malawi 96457
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National Nurses Training - Latest update August 2010
Finances the college training of nationals to become qualified medical staff for the three SIM medical institutions in this country.
Project: Burkina Faso 93270
Help for the Handicapped - Latest update June 2010
Provides medical treatment, including surgery, follow-up care and physiotherapy for adults and children with a disability. Also training to enable greater independence, including starting their own businesses.
Project: Burkina Faso 93279
Mahadaga Primary Health
Communicates a better understanding of causes of poor health, provides vaccinations, baby health clinics and antenatal clinics.
Project: Burkina Faso 93280
Caring for Kids - Latest update Apr 2010
Restoring malnourished children to health, teaching mothers to prevent malnutrition, and providing milk and education for orphans and their foster mothers. This project used to be known as Milk for Malnourished Children and Orphans.
Project: Burkina Faso 93291
Download Project UpdateGalmi Hospital Benevolent Fund
The fund allows Galmi Hospital to care for the many people who are in need of urgent medical attention but otherwise could not afford it.
Project: Niger 97245
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Rebuilding Southern Sudan – Clinic & Community Health Workers Training School
To provide a health clinic and training for the Mabaan people of South Sudan, now returning to their homeland from refugee camps.
Project: Sudan 98018
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Nepal Leprosy Rehabilitation - Latest Update June 2010
This project enables those living with stigmatising diseases such as leprosy, TB, and other disabilities access
good quality care, treatment and rehabilitation and to reach their full potential. The project has a clinic,
outpatient clinics, a physiotherapy service, provision of protective footwear and orthotic devices,
burns/ulcer care, residential self care training for patients and training for government health workers and
community volunteers.
Project: Nepal 98290
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Education and Community Projects
Chile Earthquake Aid - Latest Update Mar 2010
This project meets the immediate needs of those affected by the earthquake that hit Chile on the 27th
February 2010. Initially blankets, tents, food, medicine and community kitchens are being provided, with
counselling and pastoral care for adults and children to follow. There is also provision of some temporary and
permanent housing as determined by partners in the relief efforts.
Project: Chile 91904
Ouagadougou Flood Relief
This project provides urgent assistance to the estimated 150,000 people who lost their homes in the
Ouagadougou floods of September 2009. Immediate aid will meet the basic needs of food, blankets, sleeping
mats, medicine, mosquito nets, soap, and similar items, for those who have taken refuge in government
centres. Ongoing assistance will help in the resettlement of those most vulnerable and least able to re-
establish themselves.
Project: Burkina Faso 93918
Rebuilding Southern Sudan: Southern Blue Nile Academy
Building a high school to provide education and a brighter
future for refugees returning to the
Yabus region after suffering displacement
through war. This is the only high school in the region.
Project: Sudan 98019
The Workshed: Sudan - Latest Update June 2010
This project helps the community of Southern Sudan back on its feet after decades of civil war.
The project is to build and operate a vocational skills centre to start up and train people in small business
enterprises. This will create jobs and provide appropriate skills. The first business will be a metal-working
enterprise.
Project: Sudan 98826
Emergency Fund - Latest Update July 2010
Earthquakes and famines happen in countries where SIMaid has people ready
and willing to
provide assistance. This fund enables our personnel to launch an
immediate emergency response.
Project: International 68001
Where most needed
Sometimes SIMaid hears of one of its projects being short of funds at a critical time. In these situations
we are extremely thankful to those gracious donors who say
'Please direct this money to the tax deductible project that needs it most'.
Project: International
