[PWRF 1968 Objective]
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/official5307
- Date
- 1968 May 29
- Source
- Anglican News Service
- Type
- Press Release
- Text of motion
- Thousands of footsore Canadians trudging the highways in marches and walkathons are giving a powerful boost to agencies, churches and other organizations in the drive to provide financial aid for the world's distressed peoples.
- The Primate's World Relief Fund of the Anglican Church of Canada has set its 1968 objective at $400,000, nearly doubling the average annual total. Over the last eight years Anglicans have contributed nearly $1,700,000 to the fund.
- Tentative allocations aggregating $250,000 have been made for this year. As money becomes available it will be disbursed on the basis of need with priority given to emergency requirements in disaster areas.
- Grants are made in the spirit of Christian duty and service without regard for race, colour or creed. The developing countries receive the major share, but each year special needs in other areas - this year in Egypt, Greece and Portugal for instance - are recognized.
- The list of countries to which financial aid will be sent reads like a roll-call of nations.
- More than $100,000 has been earmarked for Africa. A sampling indicates aid for refugees in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Swaziland and Botswana; for the All Africa Leprosy and Rehabilitation Training Centre at Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital; an industrial and social welfare project in Nigeria and dependents of persons under restriction because of the political situation in Rhodesia.
- Nearly $40,000 will go to India and Pakistan, most of it for famine victims, while $20,000 has been allocated to North and South Vietnam where war sufferers are being helped, chiefly with medical supplies distributed by the Vietname Asian Christian Service.
- The list goes on and on - agricultural projects in Egypt, Crete and Jordan; children's benevolent work in Portugal and Israel, and college students work projects in Hong Kong. All have a strong emotional and practical appeal.
- A representative committee of bishops, clergy and laymen adminsters the Primate's World Relief Fund. It investigates through every possible channel to see that grants reach the area of need.
- Most of the money is distributed by the World Council of Churches through its Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee and World Service which has a large staff of field officers strategically located in various countries. They supervise personally many of the projects undertaken. The World Council represents 225 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox churches.
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada. Primate's World Relief Fund (PWRF) - Grants
- World Council of Churches. Commission of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee and World Service (CICARWS)
- Church and development - Anglican Communion
- Disaster relief - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada