Christians Look Out For Gods People

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Christians Look Out For Gods People

• Christians and
• Millennium Challenge Goals
• MDG

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1 Billion of Gods People Earning Less Than 1
per capita a Day
Another 1.5 Billion of Gods People Earning
Between 1 and 2 per capita a Day
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Africa

• 43 of Sub-Saharan Africans are among the extreme
  poor- Under 1 per Day
• Another 30 of Sub-Saharan Africans are poor and
  earn between 1 and 2 per day

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Church Projects

• Promote Food Crops
• Promote Vegetable Gardens With Mini Irrigation
  Hand dug or Tube Wells
• Occasionally build small earthen dams for
  irrigation
• Introduce twin cylinder manual pumps

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680 Million Children are of school age
115 Million Children are not in school.
97 not in school kids are in developing countries
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Africa

• Girls lack access to primary schools
• Girls lag boys in primary enrollment
• 9 to 20 of girls in school Sahelian region

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African Stories

• Operation Bootstrap- church and community co
  sponsored building public schools
• Churches sponsored schools
• Churches organized communities to build public
  schools
• Churches sponsored Teachers Colleges

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64 of 876 million illiterate adults are women.
80 of all world refugees are women.
60 of 115 million children not in primary school
are girls
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Africa

• Women are more interested in food solutions for
  changing nomadic life.
• Men Herders slowly adapt to change.
• Women are interested in literacy for themselves
  and their children.
• Grameen Bank experience proved that women are
  conscientious with credit use.

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Every year more than 10 million children die of
preventable causes.
30,000 die each day
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Africa

• Immunizations have fallen below 50
• Number of orphans are growing rapidly.
• Drought and civil disturbances drive malnutrition
  underweight rates up to 15 to 50.

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African Churches

• Trained villagers promote mother and baby
  health
• Charting monthly baby weights
• Health and nutrition teaching
• Oral Rehydration for diarhoea
• Cook porridge for babies losing weight

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500,000 Women die of pregnancy or childbirth
each year
An African woman has a 1 in 16 chance of dying in
pregnancy or childbirth An American or European
woman has a 1 out of 2,800 chance of dying in
pregnancy or childbirth.
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African Stories

• Church hospitals/clinics try to get high risk
  women to go in to midwife or birthing clinic.
• Church hospitals/clinics train traditional family
  midwives to improve skills and hygiene.
• Sell birth kits of a large plastic sheet, soap,
  and sterile razor blade and thread.

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There are 300 million cases of malaria each
year. One million die of malaria each year.
There are 60 million cases of Tuberculosis each
year. Two million die each year.
Malaria and TB are curable.
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HIV/AIDS

• 40 Million have HIV
• 90 of the HIV is in developing countries
• There are 13 million AIDS orphans
• HIV/AIDS is manageable as a chronic disease.
  People can take care of their children and be
  productive.

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1 billion people lack clean safe water. 2.4
billion people lack access to sanitation
facilities. Both are life and death issues.
1.7 billion people live in countries facing water
stress, ie shortage of water for cities and farms.
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Environment

• 5 billion acres have degraded soils, which limits
  productivity for 1 billion people.
• High income countries with 14 of world
  population generate 44 of CO2 emissions.

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Church projects

• Promote inter cropping- corn and peanuts.
• Promote crop rotation.
• Allow the land to be fallow.

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Nobody Can Do It All

• Every one needs to get involved.
• Churches need to cooperate with their brothers
  and sisters in Africa.

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• Governments average 0.17 in official aid.
• If all governments could push this official
  development aid up to 0.5, we would be able to
  solve these problems by 2015.

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8 Ways to Share With Our Brothers and Sisters in
Christ
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Christians Look Out For and Share with All of
Gods People

• Stand With Africa
• World Hunger gifts
• Lutheran World Relief
• Lutheran World Federation
• Action of Churches Together (ACT)
• CROP WALK/Church World Service