Anglican Primate's Fund approves grant for refugees from fighting in Zaire
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- Date
- 1996 October 31
- Source
- Anglican News Service
- Type
- Press release
- Text of motion
- TORONTO (October 31, 1996) -- The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund of the Anglican Church of Canada has approved a grant of $25,875 to assist people fleeing the intensifying fighting in eastern Zaire.
- The fighting has already resulted in the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people.
- The PWRDF grant is to help provide health care, blankets, kitchen utensils, food and shelter for the refugees.
- Anglican funds will be channelled through Action by Churches Together (ACT) in Geneva, an association of churches which has distributed aid to refugees and people displaced by fighting in the area for several years.
- The Anglican Church of Canada has a long-standing relationship with the churches in Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire.
- PWRDF, which approved the grant at a recent meeting, is monitoring the situation in eastern Zaire carefully and expects to make further donations.
- For more information or for comment, contact Robin Gibson, director, Primate's World Relief and Development Fund: (416) 924-9199 ext. 264
- Contact: Doug Tindal, Director of Communications 416-924-9199 ext. 286; 905-335-8349 (residence) or Sam Carriere, media relations: 416-924-9199 ext. 256
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada. Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF)
- Anglican Church of Canada. Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) - Grants
- Disaster relief - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Zaire - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Rwanda - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada