PROJECTS WAITING FOR SUPPORT

LPGM offers the following opportunities for individuals or congregations to make a significant difference by providing for special needs from our partners abroad. These requests are carefully considered and prioritized by our LPGM Project Committee and are overseen to make sure the funds are used as stated.

• Generator for Gallo Health Clinic in the Central African Republic. Two congregations have given funds for the construction of the Gallo Health Center, but funds are also needed for other related infrastructure. Some funds have come in to pay for two generators to operate the electrical system and pump water, but we need at least $20,000 additional. If you are interested in helping with this need at the clinic, please contact LPGM.
• The Saron Boarding Home and school campus in India needs a wall to separate a new primary school from the cemetery. We have a donor for a new primary school at Saron ($110,000) that we hope to build in 2009-10. Before the school is finished a wall mu st go up to separate it from the cemetery. Hindu families (where the majority of the sponsored children come from) will not send their children to a school where the cemetery is visible or accessible to the students. The wall is part of the master plan but the individual donor cannot add this amount, so we need to look for an additional estimated $10,000 for the wall. This is an important piece of the project that needs to be in place in order to allow for the construction of the school building.
• Renovation of older primary school at Saron into a secondary school with laboratories. This is also a part of the master plan for building a new primary school. The cost is estimated to be $5,000 to $10,000 to build science labs on the first floor of the building. The primary school at Saron is located next to the secondary school. When the new primary school is constructed, the secondary school will take over the building to relieve an extremely overcrowded situation in that school. The government will not give accreditation to the secondary school until new classrooms and labs are available.
• Vans for the Danish Mission Hospital.  About ten years ago LPGM found donors for a new van for the hospital. It’s amazing that it lasted this long but it is now in very bad shape. The young doctor, Franklin Irwin, has proposed replacing it with two vehicles, both of which are sorely needed. One vehicle would be for use in the village outreach projects (eye camps, safe motherhood, village health). The second would be used more as an ambulance or emergency vehicle and would be designed for such use. The cost for each van is about $15,000.
• HIV/AIDS Center in Bouar, Central African Republic.  This is a priority project for the church there, the EELRCA. The present facility for treatment and counseling, offices and storage is in four discarded shipping containers with no ventilation. It is very hot and crowded. A foundation exists across the road on the property of the women’s center near the basement of the church where medicines are stored. The location is ideal–private and secure–for a small building to be built on this existing foundation for the HIV/AIDS Center. Estimates are $30,000 for the entire project. This program will eventually be overseen by the Gallo medical Center. LPGM would like to find a donor for this very soon as it could be supervised by Teresa Obwaya, who is the temporary supervisor of the clinic in Gallo.