Chilwell Road Methodists donate £100 to Chichiri Prison

As part of their annual charitable giving, Chilwell Road Methodist Church, Beeston, has recently donated £100 towards Janet's ongoing scheme to provide soap and biscuits to the 1800 prisoners in Chichiri Prison, Blantyre, Malawi.

Janet's "Ethiopia Service" at Chilwell Road Methodist Church

Mesvin Ayala was a Finance Officer with the EECMY chuch in Oromia, Ethiopia. He came to UK to study and was given asylum here as he had been imprisoned for five years in Addis for church-based "political activities" against the regime. At Chilwell Road he was interviewed by Martin Stott and sang with his wife Konjit and her daughter Hirya, who now live in Birmingham. The Junior Church baked cakes decorated with the colours of the Ethiopian flag.

Another donation to Chichiri Prison, Blantyre, Malawi

Janet outside the prison at Chichiri, Blantyre. For Easter she and her friend Carole Biggs distributed a bar of soap for each of the 1800 inmates and a stock of biscuits.

Another tranche of money received by Dilla Clinic

Receipt Jan 07, originally uploaded by Old Man of Mow.

The PIC sent another £500 in December, and the receipt from Dilla has just arrived. It bought 8521 Ethiopian birr to be used for extending the clinic.

Fundraising for Dilla gets coverage in the Nottingham Evening Post

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Windblowers
Churches in the Circuit
Beeston Parish Church
Breeze Magazine
Beeston Express
Evening Post
Long Eaton Trader
Radio Nottingham
Attenborough Parish Church
Midlands Music Websites

First tranche of the Dilla Appeal fund received by clinic

8200 Ethiopian birr (£500) has been received by the Hospital Administrator in Aira who is responsible for the Dilla Out-station.

Our friends Bryan and Bernice Halson who have just returned to UK after working in Aira for three months report: "Christel Ahrens, a German missionary engaged to survey all 14 clinics, visted Dilla and brought back an encouraging report. The money has been safely delivered and received with much gratitude. The clinic has succeeded in gaining funding from a Swedish source for a complete rebuilding in 2008. Your money has enabled them to start on the foundations in the immediate future, which has given them a great 'buzz'".

A further £500 has been sent via Ebise Ashana who returned to her country this week.