$200,000 N.C.C. appeal

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33383, 15 November 1973, Page 14

$200,000 N.C.C. appeal

The target for the National Council of Churches Christmas Appeal this year is $200,000. Money contributed by member churches will go towards development projects in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific. Appeal material is at present being sent out at the rate of 60 parcels a day to member churches. The name of this year’s appeal is "Christmas dinner buffet style,” (illustration, right). This year most of the funds will go to Asian projects, especially to the fund for reconstruction and reconciliation in Indo-China. Compared with the $70,000 raised in a special appeal for Bangladesh in 1971, only $4OOO will be allocated to that country, an amount comparable with most of the money given to separate projects. Nine projects in Africa will receive $25,000 for use in rural development programmes, bursary funds for school pupils, urban community service centres, and extension training courses. About $23,000 will go into a fund for disasters, and $lB,OOO into the Pacific Islands for a community hostel in Papua, another in New Guinea, and towards scholarships for theological students. Ecumenical agencies will! absorb $30,000, of which! $20,000 will go into refugee

aid projects and $lO,OOO into funds for students, literature, missions, and evangelism. Money will also go toward medical aid, community [development and youth coi ordination programmes in Latin America, laity training

projects in East Germany and a missionary church centn in Poland. A new project, a development consultation between the N.C.C. and the Roman Catholic Church, will receive $5OOO.