Third
Quarter Response Fund Report
Greetings from Week of Compassion, and thank
you for your continued support. Your generosity,
concern and prayers bring help and hope to
countless people throughout the world. We
are grateful here; many more elsewhere are
grateful.
Within the WOC budget,
the single largest line item is the Compassion
Response Fund. Through this allocation (and
special designated accounts), WOC is able
to respond promptly to emergencies, disasters
and other urgent humanitarian requests as
they arise. Below is a brief summary of responses
we have made through September 30, 2008, from
the Response Fund and certain designated disaster
accounts. This, of course, is only a snapshot
and does not include other resources we are
providing for long-term sustainable development
projects. But we do hope it will offer an
overview of the many emergency needs to which
we Disciples are responding. Three-quarters
of the way through this year, WOC has provided
$1,218,148 in relief and recovery grants to
216 requests/situations for an average of
once every 1.2 days! Thank you for helping
make this ministry around the world, around
the year.
AFRICA:
[$197,800]
$3,500 - Burkina Faso,
floods
$6,000 - Burundi,
returnee appeal
$5,000 - Chad, refugee
crisis
$3,500 - Congo, medical
supplies
$6,000 - Ethiopia,
drought
$20,800 - Kenya, civil
unrest
$5,000 - Liberia,
food aid
$6,000 - Mozambique,
floods
$6,000 - Somalia,
refugee assistance
$7,500 - South Africa,
civil unrest
$106,000 - Sudan,
Darfur support
$22,500 - Zimbabwe,
flood, hunger crisis
EAST ASIA and the Pacific: [$42,500]
$20,500 - China, winter
storm, earthquake
$22,000 - Philippines,
typhoons, human rights
LATIN AMERICA
and the CARIBBEAN: [$71,500]
$2,000 - Bolivia,
floods
$12,000 - Caribbean,
hurricanes
$25,500 - Dominican
Republic, hurricanes, medical supplies
$18,000 - Haiti, hurricane,
hunger crisis
$14,000 - Mexico,
floods, emergency housing
MIDDLE EAST and
EUROPE: [$40,000]
$6,000 - Bosnia, housing
crisis
$10,000 - Iraq, refugee
crisis
$6,000 - Georgia,
emergency relief
$1,000 - Moldova,
floods
$13,000 - Palestine/Gaza,
emergency relief
$3,000 - Tajikistan,
winter storm appeal
$1,000 - Ukraine,
floods
SOUTHERN ASIA:
[$306,083]
$9,000 - Bangladesh,
cyclone
$191,083 - India,
floods tsunami recovery
$21,000 - Indonesia,
floods
$80,000 - Myanmar,
typhoon
$2,000 - Papua New
Guinea, medical supplies
$3,000 - Sri Lanka,
civil unrest
GENERAL:
[$18,000]
$18,000 - Action by
Churches Together Rapid Response Fund
Indonesia, Java/Sumatra floods
Zambia, floods
El Salvador, winter storms
Mozambique, floods
Uganda, Kenyan refugees
Afghanistan, winter freeze
DR Congo, earthquake
Cameroon, Chad refugees
Bolivia, floods
Southern Sudan, civil conflict
South Africa, civil violence
Colombia, earthquake
Sri Lanka, floods
Costa Rica, floods and landslides
India, floods
Philippines, Cyclone Fengshen
Pakistan, floods
Georgia, conflict
India, flash floods
Nepal, floods
Philippines, Mindanao emergency
Ethiopia, Gambella floods
Nepal, floods
DOMESTIC:
[$542,265]
$3,500 - Arkansas,
tornadoes
$6,000 - Arizona,
water emergency
$11,500 - California,
wildfire, local mission
$6,500 - Colorado,
wildfires, tornadoes
$44,000 - Florida,
wildfires, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes
$22,500 - Illinois,
floods
$97,850 - Indiana,
floods
$46,000 - Iowa, floods
$6,500 - Kansas, tornadoes,
homeless ministry
$3,000 - Kentucky,
tornadoes
$41,000 - Louisiana,
hurricanes
$1,000 - Michigan,
winter storm
$500 - Minnesota,
tornadoes
$5,000 - Mississippi,
hurricanes
$6,750 - Missouri,
floods, church fire
$1,000 - Nebraska,
floods
$2,000 - Nevada, floods
$2,665 - New York,
refugee pastoral support
$5,500 - Ohio, floods,
fire, community food appeal
$3,000 - Oklahoma,
church fire, floods
$16,000 - Oregon,
winter storms
$10,000 - Tennessee,
migrant child appeal, tornadoes
$151,000 - Texas,
wildfires, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes
$500 - Virginia, tornadoes
$6,000 - Washington,
fire, floods
$43,000 - U.S. CWS
appeals, storms, floods, hurricanes
NOTE: If you
make an online donation, please submit
a note to the church office or note it on
your church offering envelope so we can acknowledge
your gift within the totals our church gives
to outreach this year.
Contributions
can be made any
time of the year to Week of Compassion
through special designation on your check
and/or offering envelope to Northwest Christian
Church.
Review
of 2007 Total Response Fund
