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children b u t face m any difficulties in and Youth G athering 2 0 0 0 " w h ich to o k place
adjusting to the new environm ent, in cluding in Thailand in January. Ms. Man Lai-ying
housing, children's education, em ploym ent and Mr. Lo W a i-ki participated in a regional
and discrim ination by the local people.
co n su lta tio n on M ission and Dialogue
Through visita tio n and program s, w om en organized by the C hristian Conference of Asia
from the churches can play an im p o rta n t role and held in C olom bo, Sri Lanka in February.
in helping the newcom ers to break o u t of
the ir isolation and to cope w ith the In addition, ecum enical prayer m eetings took
d ifficulties they face. place in response to disasters. O ne was held
for the people o f East T im or follo w e d by a vigil
5. P a rtic ip a tio n in re g io n a l m eetings in fro n t o f the Indonesian C onsulate; the
Ms. Clara Tsang O n -fu and Ms. Kw ok Hoi- other one w as for the v ictim s o f the severe
w ah attended the ecum enical " Asian Student earthquake in Taiwan.

I II . H u m a n R e s o u rc e s D e v e lo p m e n t D e p a r tm e n t

Ms. Ko Siu-wah is the Department Head and Mr. Philip Lam and Rev. Dr. Chan Kim -kwong are responsible
for relevant issues of the Department. Mr. Lam is responsible for the “Five Loaves and Two Fish” campaign,
“Back to School” project, “Rebuilding Collapsing School” project and the “Yellow Plateau” project. Rev.
Chan is responsible for “Project Nehemiah" and the “Household of God” project.

I . "Five Loaves a n d T w o Fish'1 C a m p a ig n

Over the past year, funds were allocated as follows:
(a) Emergency Fund:
HK$
East Tim or
90,000
Earthquake in Taiwan
300 ,00 0
Kosovo

1 15,000
Earthquake in Turkey
527,000
China Floods
9 2,000
Rwanda

1 10,000
N o rth Korea
1,554,000
M ozam bique Floods
202 ,61 8
Ethiopia
1,123,000
Indonesia: Ethnic V iolence in M aluku
150,000
Philippines: M ayon V olcano Eruption
100,000
China: Yaoan, Yunnan Earthquake
100,000
Zhangjiakou Earthquake, Hebei, China
190,000
Total: $4 ,6 5 3 ,6 1 8
(b ) D e ve lo p m e n t Projects:

CASA - Rural D evelopm ent (India)
2 0 0 ,0 0 0
CCDB - Integrated Rural Developm ent (Bangladesh)
2 0 0 ,0 0 0
M y a n m a r-In te g ra te d Rural Developm ent
100,000

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