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The United Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel
15 Tufton Street
London SWiP 3QQ
Tel: 01-222 4222
AIMS
To serve God’s mission in the worldwide church including Britain.
To support the priorities -decided by the Church of England’s partner churches with
personnel and funds. To maintain work in church schools, colleges, hospitals, farms,
offices and industries. To help transform this work so that each sharing church can become
a self-supporting partner. To involve, stimulate, witness to justice, and educate the
Church of England in its mission work at home and overseas.
METHODS
We recruit skilled personnel on behalf of partner churches and fund
their priority needs. We have schemes to enable people to gain experience of the church
overseas on a volunteer basis and to work in a Christian community in Britain. We have a
bursaries programme. We have fellowship groups, one of which arranges international
exchanges and social action. We produce educational, worship and promotional material
including filmstrips and challenging posters and publish a quarterly magazine Network.
SUCCESSES
To plant the Anglican church in many countries and enable these
churches to move from dependence to independence. Parishes in Britain have benefitted from
Christian corn- munities working in their area.
FAILURES
To recruit enough specialist personnel to work overseas and enough
young people to work in parishes in Britain. To raise sufficient interest and involvement
among British Christians to share their resources with their partner churches and
appreciate what they can learn from them.
FUTURE PLANS
To move towards a worldwide sharing of God’s gifts.
HELP NEEDED
In prayer to support the churches’ work. Skilled personnel to work
overseas. Young people to work in parishes in Britain. Volunteers and supporters to help
mission in the local parishes.
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Freundeskreis
Chotanagpur e.V.
Society of Friends of Chotanagpur
Gartenstr.
29a 75 Karlsruhe 1, Federal
Republic of Germany
Tel: 0721-816255
AIMS
To help village groups in. India to improve their products, find a
market for them in Europe and in their own country and organise them in cooperatives.
To practise an alternative model of trading with the help of
volunteers, who put the needs of the producers before their own profit.
To promote awareness about international justice through trade with the
products of our partners in India, Nepal and the Philippines, especially the tribal people
of Chotanagpur/ India.
METHODS
We import cotton textiles, Tassar silk, Tibetan carpets, batiks, brass,
wood and paper handicrafts and sell them directly or give them to other groups for
non-commercial sales. We have direct and personal contacts with all our overseas partners
and give information about the producers, their organisation, way of production and their
social background.
SUCCESSES
In the last five years we have provided regular employment for about
200 families of the lowest social strata in India. Our surplus -was used for additional support of them. At home, there is
a network of more than 100 groups and individuals who cooperate with us in sales and
information. We have managed to finance the import of goods worth more than one million DM
so far and publish our information material without any public or church support.
FAILURES
We could not get sufficient volunteers to share our work equally. We
have not been able to create enough awareness about problems of development and justice
and could not make understood the connection between exploitation in the Third World and
our society.
FUTURE PLANS
We want to establish contacts with similar organisations in other
countries to broaden the basis of support for our partners. We are trying hard to find
ways of making our partners more independent of exports.
HELP NEEDED
We are looking for groups or individuals in India to start an education
and conscientization process for the mostly illiterate craftsmen so that they can fight
for their own rights.
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Pause for Peace
Box 430, Kelowna, B.C.
Canada VIY 7P1
Tel: (0604) 764-4949
AIMS
To increase public awareness about the consequences and growing risk of
nuclear war.
To persuade governments to decrease their involvement in the arms race
and increase their work in peace and disarmament initiatives.
METHODS
For two minutes at 11 am every Tuesday Pause for Peace participants
stop all activity wherever they are. If they work, they stop; if they drive they pull over
and park. Those who can,join others at federal government buildings, military bases or at
the offices or plants of companies involved in military research and production.
During this two-minute period of silence participants reflect on
everything they hold dear in this life and stand to lose in a nuclear war. They should
also ask themselves how they can best do their share in the world-wide struggle for peace
during the week ahead.
Placards and leaflets are used to explain the Pause for Peace to
passers-by.
SUCCESSES
The first Pause for Peace took place on 14 June 1983.
By October it had become a weekly event in 41 Canadian cities, towns
and villages. Participants draw considerable strength from the realization that wherever
they are they Pause-for-Peace in the inevitable company of thousands of other people doing
the same thing at the same time for the same reason. The campaign is now spreading to the
rest of Canada and the US.
FAILURES
Many people fail to inform the campaign coordinator of their
participation so that the campaign’s progress is difficult to monitor.
FUTURE PLANS
The ultimate aim of the campaign is to get enough people to pause as
often and as long as necessary to persuade governments to work for peace and justice
rather than war and nuclear annihilation. To this end PFP Action Groups are being
organized in a growing number of cities. Organizers are kept informed through information
packages and a regular newsletter.
HELP NEEDED
You can help by participating and organizing the Pause for Peace
campaign in your area.
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