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Christian aid has helped hugely to fight poverty since 1941 they believe that they can get to the goal of minimizing Poverty on a larger scale!   

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Christian aid has helped hugely to fight poverty since 1941 they believe that they can get to the goal of minimizing Poverty on a larger scale!   

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by fraser and cameron

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The tumaini fund is a

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the Tumaini fund is a charity helped by the channel islands supporting children in Tanzania to get mosquito nets which stops children from getting bad

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The tumaini fund is a fundraising

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The roots of Mission Africa stretch back to the mid-1880s, when a group of chiefs from the Ibeno region of the delta approached the calabar Mission of the Free Church of Scotland and asked for a missionary to work among them.

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The Leprosy Mission Quotes

Jesus healed with his hands. Today he needs yours.

Then the righteous will answer him: “Lord, when did we see hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go visit you?”

The King will reply: “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”

By James T

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he Leprosy Mission runs 14 hospitals in india.Although these hospitals were initially established to care exclusively for people with leprosy, they are now being developed into community hospitals, providing a wide range of health care services. It is becoming more common for people who have leprosy to be treated on the same wards as those with general medical conditions. This helps to break down the mentality of leprosy.Historically, people have been very fearful of contracting leprosy, believing it to be highly catching when this is not the case.

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THE TUMAINI FUND

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Founded in 1941 christian aid is a charity that supports poverty and it holds the UK largest door to door

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Operation Noah was founded in 2004 by Christian Ecology Link, and it's main goal is tot help to stop climate change. It is based in the UK. In 2012, the then Archbishop of Canterbury gave the Operation Noah Annual Lecture. In 2013, Operation Noah launched Bright Now,  a campaign to stop christian churches from using Fossil Fuels as a power source.

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1874-1893 – The Baileys travel a lot in India to see the need of people with leprosy and to encourage  work at it.
1891 – Wellesley Bailey visits mandely, to open the first TLM home for leprosy-affected people outside India.
1917 – The Mission has extended its work throughout India and now has 87 programmes in 12 countries, with support offices in eight countries.
1940s – In South India, paul brand pioneers medical research and surgery on leprosy in hands and feet.
1940s-50s – The first effective cure for leprosy, Dapsone, is introduced. Over the next 15 years, millions of patients are successfully treated.
1950s – The Mission’s work is going into Africa.
1954 – world leprosy day is founded by Raoul Follereau, a French writer, to make sure that people everywhere know that leprosy still exists and is completely curable. It is usually held each year on the last Sunday in January.
1960s – Leprologists work to discover new drugs that work against leprosy as many people are discovered to have Dapsone-resistant leprosy.
1965 – The Mission changes its name from 'The Mission to Lepers' to the Leprosy Mission to avoid the negative of the word ‘leper.
1970s – TLM begins to extend its work to people's homes and communities, rather than just hospitals and asylums.
1980 – Vincent Barry and his team win the 1980 UNESCO Science Prize for their discovery of anti-leprosy drug clofazimine, developed with the assistance of The Leprosy Mission.
1981 – World Health Organisation(WHO) recommends a new combination drug treatment for leprosy, MTD (Multi Drug Therapy). People are cured in as little as six months.
1990s – As many more people are cured, caring for people with lasting disabilities through social, economic, and getting better becomes increasingly important.

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First, Mission Aviation Fellowship (M.A.F) carries Maasai [ People who are becoming christians in tanzinia] to remote villages, and sometimes a medical team to the same villages. With over 125 aircraft, they

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What happens: Leprosy attacks the nerves, and if not treated quickly people can lose sensation in their hands and feet leading to disability. The Leprosy Mission provide surgery for leprosy people putting back movement to hands and feet.

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prospects is a charity  founded in Scotland that helps people who have learning disabilities and help to make it so they could do everything they want to. They also take people with learning disabilities  to show them god and other aspects of church they have been doing this for over 35 years. In the UK it helps over 300 adults.

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We are told that all humans are created equal, no matter what we look like. Everyone is accepted by god as an individual, and is loved equally. Yet, some people with learning or physical difficulties find it harder to worship God than others, and Prospects believe that they should help everyone to worship God. They have been working with churches for 35 years!

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Tumaini is the word for hope and has been helping  orphans from Kagera and Tanzania. A farmer will earn in the region of £55 each year, with which helps 6-8 family members. there may be 100,000 orphans in this region. 24,000 kids under five years old die each year from drinking non-clean water, water is foul and are far away from villages and it is used for drinking, washing, cleaning, and cooking.

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The word 'Tumaini' is Swahili for hope.the Tumaini fund is a christian charity working to give hope to orphans of Kagera. Many will sleep tonight, on the floor, when they have eaten nothing, and no good shelter and no chance of learning. In Kagera North-West Tanzania there are a ruff amount of 100,000 orphans, commonly due to the disease called AIDS which spread rapidly in the time of the genocides in Rwanda and Burundi. Jesus'brother James wrote "Religion that God our Farther accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world" - James 1:27

By Will and George 6B