Missionary Offering Supports Tanzania
Diocesan Press Service. November 18, 1970 [91-11]
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- An appropriation of $5,503 has been approved by the Episcopal Church for the support of projects in Tanzania now being sponsored by the National Committee of Black Churchmen.
The money, which will come from the Church School Missionary Offering of 1967, will be used to help send Afro-American technicians to Africa for two-year tours of duty where they will participate in the Pan-African Skills Project (PAS), an undertaking of the N.C.B.C.
The PAS program established in January, 1970, now has 12 American black technicians in Tanzania where they are assisting in community development projects with the support of the Tanzanian government.
PAS also is seeking to recruit additional volunteers to work in Africa, and there are now immediate openings for engineers, doctors, dentists, agriculturalists, accountants, architects, teachers (science and math), draftsmen, chemists, electricians, mechanics, road and building experts and surveyors. Expansion of the work to Zambia, Uganda and Kenya is also under consideration.
The grant of the Episcopal Church to the PAS project is the first from any major American church.