PB Fund Awards $50,000 in Emergency Grants
Episcopal News Service. January 15, 1998 [98-2068J]
(ENS) The Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief recently issued $50,000 in emergency grants in response to civil unrest and natural disaster in Sierra Leone, Kenya and Spain. In Sierra Leone, the military coup of May 25, 1997, resulted in many civilian deaths and the destruction of homes and property. The Bishop of Freetown was forced from his official residence and the diocesan staff had to relocate its office. Two grants worth $10,000 each will provide emergency food, medicine and shelter for affected parishioners in the Dioceses of Freetown and Bo. A $15,000 grant was sent to Mombasa, Kenya, where a combination of civilian strife, heavy rains and flooding has caused damage to diocesan institutions and the displacement of many parishioners. Heavy rains and flooding also destroyed many homes and buildings in Alicante on the eastern coast of Spain. $15,000 was given to the Spanish Reformed Church for flood relief.