Parliament of Worlds Religion 1999 Capetown SA

Author(s): Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions

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1999 GIFTS OF SERVICE TO THE WORLD
Women in Need Growing Stronger (W.I.N.G.S.) Park Ridge Community Church women's "circles" help sustain WINGS, an organization that houses, supports and trains for eventual independent life, women who are escaping from abusive relationships and marriages. Volunteers extend support through offering gifts, counseling, and serving on committees Park Ridge Community Church USA
Service to Humanity Through Travel Airline Ambassadors International (PAI) sponsors 1 - 5 humanitarian missions per month, and would like to dedicate these missions as a Gift of Service in recognition of the 1999 Parliament of the World's Religions. In 1998, AAI delivered $4 million worth of aid to countries including Cambodia, Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Haiti. Missions range from transporting supplies to war refugees in Albania to establishing medical Clinics in rural villages in Nepal. AAI is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to helping children in need at home and abroad. AAl relies on members to: hand deliver humanitarian aid to children in more than 20 countries, involve youth in programs to provide assistance and build cross-cultural friendships. escort orphans to new homes and children to hospitals for medical care, and participate in special events that increase international cooperation. Since its founding in December 1996, AAI has delivered over $4 million in humanitarian aid, involved over 60,000 children in our programs, escorted 500 children in need, and participated in over 50 special events. For every dollar donated, AAI has been able to arrange for the donation and delivery of over $100 worth of aid. The qualities that make the organization unique are its ability to establish long-term relationships between people in different countries and to deliver aid at extremely low cost. AAI recognizes that many would like to make a personal difference helping children around the world, but simply don't know how to get involved. Airline Ambassadors offers a way to match people's unique interests and talents with world need and bring compassion into action. AAI welcomes everyone to join as Ambassadors of Goodwill to help children in need. Airline Ambassadors international USA
Taking Action for Humanity Abolition 2000 collected 13 million signatures in Japan, Italy, the United Kingdom and New Zealand during 1998, calling on governments to eliminate nuclear weapons on a fixed timetable. Soka Gakkai International, the organizers of Abolition 2000, is also involved in refugee relief, through fundraising in Japan of more than US$7 million to support the work of the UNHCR in Nepal, Ethiopia, Somalia, and the former Yugoslavia. SGI has also fundraised in the United Kingdom for UNHCR and War Child, and in Malaysia to benefit orphanages and clinics. They have also collected 300,000 radios, and donated them through the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia to inform the public about the first-ever demo cratic elections in that country. SGI has also donated funds for construction of an elementary school in Chew Teal village in Cambodia and Biijie in southwestern China. In addition, they have donated medical equipment and relief supplies to Nepal, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Iran and China, and books to nearly 1,000 schools in Japan and universities world-wide. SGI has also donated 10,000 books to African schools Soka Gakkai International JAPAN
The BRC Rainbow Fund The BRC Rainbow Fund strives to increase the quality and meaning of life for needy individuals and to uplift rural communities by providing improved health and educational facilities and raises funds, nationally and internationally, for this purpose. Buddhist Institute of South Africa REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
Building on Faith Week Habitat for Humanity affiliates partner with the faith community to build homes with people in need. The week of September 11-17. 2000, Building on Faith Week, will see 10,000 homes started, finished or worked on as a worldwide expression of God's love. Habitat for Humanity International USA
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