Many people throughout Suffolk will have supported the Diocesan Kagera Lent Appeal, and the wonderful news is that nearly £50,000 has been raised !
Chris and Anji Dawkins, the Kagera link co-ordinators, say:
Bwana asifiwe! Praise the Lord!
You have helped to raise a magnificent £38,089, with money still coming in and gift aid to be added. What a result! We’ve heard of coffee mornings and church collections, suppers and services, plant sales, prayers and more. Schools have joined in and individuals have come on board with their friends. We and the Kagera Working Group are so grateful for your enthusiastic support for Kagera Diocese.
We will send money out to Kagera as soon as possible to be used for immediate food aid in the parts of the region worst affected by drought. And we will fund the Church and Community Mobilisation process for the next three years to provide longer term development support. Through CCMP, groups of people in Kagera are enabled to work together to find their own solutions to shared problems, improve farming methods, obtain new seed varieties, build small businesses and look to a better future.