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World
In Need is working in over 22 countries.
Here is a taste of what we have achieved
and our current challenges and projects.
AFGHANISTAN
Family and child sponsorship is continuing
in this ravaged country despite local interference
from the Taliban. We are also establishing
a women's carpet weaving training centre.
A Day Care Centre serves the poorest children
and provides education, a meal and medical
services.
AZERBAIJAN
Carpet trading has generated an income for
widows and children. We continue to sponsor
children and families. We've promoted local
musical talent in the West and trained and
equipped hairdressers. Our current concerns
include providing for mental patients and
sourcing clean water supplies. A puppet theatre
helps communicate educational values.
BANGLADESH
The youngest of our fields. Training has started
and future plans include an orphanage and
child sponsorships.
BURKINA FASO
The team there are translating books into French, have extensive education HIV / Aids amongst youth in schools and are starting a music cassette ministry in French to help people.
DAGESTAN
A drug rehab project is underway as well as
teaching and outreach to the poor.
ETHIOPIA
Church planting is underway and training of
nationals is an important part of the work.
GHANA
An AIDS awareness programme for young people
has been supported. We are working to improve
the living standards of Liberian refugees
through skills training.
INDIA
Boys from slum areas are housed and educated
and similar provision is now being developed
for young girls.
KENYA
An internet café provides a base for training
and business development and trading African
crafts provides income for local people. We
give training in work skills and counselling
and have a programme of child sponsorship.
A new training centre is being built to give
educational opportunities to East Africa.
KOSOVO
We plan to establish WIN Kosovo for the supply
of wheelchairs and child sponsorship.
KURDISTAN
Work among children continues to grow. Widows
are helped to support other orphans. Training
locals is essential for the future empowerment
of the work.
LIBERIA
Child sponsorship is key to educational development
and community growth. New business start up
is needed. HIV education is also essential.
MALAWI
Our donation of bicycles has helped create
jobs and generate income. More than 1,000
have been trained in cross-cultural work and
we have been successful in agricultural development.
MOROCCO
We have provided resources and relief supplies
for an organisation working with disabled
children and continue to develop trade. Regular
shipments of discarded wheelchairs are renovated.
NIGERIA
We provide training in cultural and religious
understanding. Our trading ventures in second-hand
clothes and computers help raise funds for
local initiatives. Donated land received sponsorship
for a farm project which now funds a health
clinic and local visits. HIV strategies are
being implemented.
PAKISTAN
A child sponsorship programme is being planned.
Literature production and discipleship is
undertaken.
PHILIPPINES
Trading in crafts generates income. A school
is run for slum children which desperately
needs more space. 50 partners have been helped
to start small businesses. Our child sponsorship
scheme continues here.
SIERRA LEONE
Child and family sponsorship work was taken
on in 2006. This will be expanded and small
business opportunities looked into.
SOUTH AFRICA
A great resource base for the rest of Africa
with many innovative facilities. New ideas
are being developed and work in the townships
undertaken.
SUDAN
Still being handled by the Kenya office and
instigated from there.
SWITZERLAND
An internet café provides for asylum seekers
and the unemployed. They also manage the work
in Egypt and Lebanon.
THAILAND
A training centre for drug awareness and child
respite from the tsunami.
TOGO The team here are involved with children and education.
TURKEY
Short-term trips are undertaken for cultural
awareness and follow-up on a correspondence
course.
UGANDA
A successful child sponsorship programme has
been handed over to a local body. Attention
has moved to the north, a much poorer area
and a war zone. UK Funds are being raised
to complete an accommodation unit for Third
World students who can return to their countries
as trainers.
USA
A new office is expanding the work and accessing
support for overseas fields for the first
time.
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