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Burkina Faso, Christian Aid and Cove Parish Churches

Christian Aid – After the Flood

Our 3 churches in Cove Parish are members of the Farnborough Christian Aid Committee, which has as its main function organising the annual collections for Christian Aid Week in May each year.  Many church members take part collecting house-to-house & this year we raised £10,539 in total.

Our £5000 raised can become £25,000!

We have recently signed up in addition to raise money for a Christian Aid Partnership Project in Burkina Faso.  By pledging to raise £5,000 by January 2013 the project will receive matched funding of 4 times that amount from the European Union.

 

The project, run by two local partners  in Burkina Faso, the Evangelical Churches Development Office (ODE) and the Alliance for Technology Development Assistance (ATAD), is to help people to recover from severe floods in both 2009 and 2010.

 

Burkina Faso is the 7th poorest country in the world, and the flooding destroyed homes, livestock, roads, and cut off villages.  

The project aims to:

• restore & improve the quality & quantity of the food they can grow, and develop market garden sites
• repair & upgrade agricultural facilities
• take measures to prevent future flooding

 

Already the scheme has identified people in 25 villages who will take part & delivered seeds & fertiliser ready for the winter planting season, and started employing people to  work on sinking wells, clearing rubble & planting trees to help prevent erosion.

Fundraising events at Cove:

Fundraising continues to go well for this project and we have now reached the half way point, with £2,500 raised!

Thanks to everyone who has supported recent events, for sponsoring Mike & Gwyn, and helping with the "Last Choir Standing" schools choir competition , and Jenny's lunch at St Christopher's .

We look forward to future events next year...

Events planned for 2012

A tabletop car boot sale to be held on Saturday 25 February 2012 from 10:30am to 2pm at St John's Hall.

 

Queen's Jubilee Weekend events to include a Garden Party on Saturday 2 June 2012, and flower festivals in both St Christopher's & St John's churches.

 

A concert by the Oddfellows Choir to be held on Saturday 29 September 2011 at St Christopher's.