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Haiti Agriculture: Let it Grow!

Written on October 9th, 2013 by
Categories: Community Development

first harvest lettuceLast December we posted an update about the agriculture initiative in Haiti through our partner, Habitat for Humanity. They were getting ready to plant their first seeds, and we are proud to say the project has continued to be successful!…

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Water 1st and Covenant Church Connection

Written on October 7th, 2013 by
Categories: Community Development

The article below from Water 1st highlights the partnership of one of our Covenant churches with a community in Bangladesh. You can read the original article in its full on their site here.

water1stThe Personal Touch Counts

This work …

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Sustainability in Spite of Instability in the Central African Republic

Written on October 2nd, 2013 by
Categories: Community Development

During the last several months, a band of rebel groups came together under the name Seleka (a word meaning “agreement”), and overthrew the government of General Bozizé in the Central African Republic. In late June, Evangelical Covenant Church missionaries Roy …

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Home-Based Care

Written on September 30th, 2013 by
Categories: Community Development

Thirty years of violence from civil war and inter-tribal conflict in South Sudan has resulted in a large number of children who are orphaned or have a single parent, typically only a mother. With funding from Covenant World Relief, the …

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Escaping Human Trafficking

Written on September 25th, 2013 by
Categories: Community Development

escaping human traffickingGangubai Shinde comes from a middle-class family. When she was fifteen, her parents forced her to marry a man twice her age. Her husband accused her of being unfaithful, and he began beating her. Although Gangubai realized that she was …

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