PB Fund Hunger Receipts Near $1 Million Mark
Diocesan Press Service. May 12, 1975 [75181]
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- As of April 30, 1975 (the latest available computer report) the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief of the Episcopal Church has received $898,487.36 designated for world hunger. This figure represents a response to local appeals and to the special Christmas-Epiphany appeal sent out last December by the Presiding Bishop, the Rt. Rev. John M. Allin, to all bishops and parish clergy.
Mrs. Howard O. Bingley, executive director of the Fund, emphasized that 100 percent of receipts designated for hunger will be allocated to hunger relief and development projects, with no portion of gifts taken out for administrative overhead.
Mrs. Bingley reported that to date, nearly $374,000 in grants have been made by the Board of the Presiding Bishop's Fund, allocated as follows:
$20,000 Arizona, New Mexico, Utah. Agricultural supplies and immediate hunger relief for Navajo reservations.
$6,000 Virginia. St. Paul's Mission, Amherst. Food-for-work project among Indians in Appalachia.
$100,000 Wheat for India. The Episcopal Church's share of a $400,000 Church World Service shipment of 1 million pounds, or 500 tons. One ton of wheat will feed two hundred people for a month.
$25,000 Bangladesh. Direct hunger relief, development projects (such as rice production), and food-for-work projects. The Episcopal Church has pledged a minimum of another $25,000 to Bangladesh for 1975.
$25,000 Sahel and other drought-stricken areas of Africa. Resettlement and development of formerly nomadic peoples in the Air Mountains of Niger; a good water supply for towns and villages of southern Niger; a fisheries project, training Nigeriens in fishing techniques; funds for a nutritionist and 2 nurses for a medical ministry directed toward maternal and child health care. A minimum of $25, 000 more has been pledged for this calendar year.
$12,500 Sudan. Development of water resources and food production, through well-digging and irrigation projects. Another $12,500 has been pledged for 1975.
$4,320 Episcopal Diocese of El Salvador. Funding for CREDO, a community development program for the purchase of land at Chulapa.
$1500 Technoserve, a development program working in Honduras, Kenya and Ghana. Part of the Fund's annual pledge of $3, 000.
$2,500 Heiffer Project, for the upgrading of livestock on American Indian reservations, and overseas in Ecuador, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, the Republic of the Philippines and India. The Presiding Bishop's Fund has doubled its 1975 pledge, from $5,000 to $10,000.
$1,000 Mauritius. Emergency food supplies, as a result of February cyclone disaster.
$1,250 Bread for the World. Part of the Fund's annual pledge to this ecumenically sponsored Christian citizens' movement on hunger and poverty.
$250 Partial funding support for John T. Wheeler III, student at Yale Law School, to attend the third preparatory seminar for the Rome World Food Conference.
$60,000 AFRICARE. Well-digging and other development construction projects in the village of Kyon, Upper Volta.
$25,000 Episcopal Diocese of Haiti. Rural development and food production.
$20,000 Towards another shipment of wheat to India.
$20,000 Hospital work in two Anglican dioceses of the Province of Central Africa.
$10,000 Turkey. Rural development in isolated areas; the Fund's share of a Church World Service program.
$10,000 Cape Verde Islands. Drought relief.
$5,000 St. Andrew's Episcopal Seminary, Philippines. The Bayanihan agricultural training program, sponsored jointly by the Episcopal Church and the Philippine Independent Church.
$2,500 Episcopal Diocese of the Dominican Republic. Irrigation equipment.
$2,000 The Episcopal Church's share of a "project desk" to combat hunger in Asia, supported ecumenically through the Christian Conference of Asia.
$2,000 Somalia. Drought relief.
$1,000 Tanzania. Towards an ecumenical pledge for the purchase of a landrover and refrigerators for delivering and storing medical supplies.
$15,000 Bangladesh. Shipment of wheat. Mrs. Bingley said that all contributions to the hunger appeal should be made payable to the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief, marked "hunger, " and sent to 815 Second Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017. `