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‘SHARE’ 248 – Learning Brings Hope amid the Gunfire

In this issue, we will lay out the needs of people under crises in different countries with the perspectives of the 3C’s – ‘Conflict’, ‘COVID’, and ‘Climate’. Myanmar has gone through years of turmoil, and its people have experienced displacement and poverty that wears their hope for the future. In ‘Focus’, we will introduce ‘Children’s Learning Space in Myanmar’, a new project that aims to help children regain hope through learning amid the war. In ‘Learn a Little More’, we will share the difficulties residents of developing countries face when receiving money from overseas relatives during the pandemic. Besides, we hope that everyone will fall in love with the world created by God, as many people suffer from

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Rural Development Project in Thai Myanmar Border, Shan State

Project Name Rural Development Project in Thai Myanmar Border, Shan State Project Location Thailand Myanmar Project Natures Urban and Rural Development Church and Community Mobilisation Livelihood Development Project Objectives Enhance the resilience of the local community to the impacts of climate change by improving their farming and fishing skills and introducing the concept of disaster preparedness. Promote church and community mobilisation by facilitating leaders to be active in rural community development with a holistic approach. Foster collaboration and enhance work standards within the target groups. Beneficiaries Villagers in nine target villages One multi-ethnic-minority church No. of Beneficiaries 1,159 Key Activities Children and Youth Development: Provide scholarships and organise youth camps with training on children’s rights, anti-human trafficking, and

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ASSISTANCE TO UKRAINIAN REFUGEES

第二階段援助(2022年5月12日更新) 俄烏戰爭已經進行超過兩個月,聯合國於5月11日發表數據,指烏克蘭的傷亡人數,截至5月10日,已達7,256人(其中3,496人死亡,3,760人受傷);另有超過590萬人逃離國境。難民主要逃往波蘭、斯洛伐克、匈牙利、羅馬尼亞等地。 在戰爭爆發之初,施達已經撥款約港幣24萬元支持夥伴到波蘭及烏克蘭邊界,為難民提供援助。可惜戰事尚未平息,難民的需要刻不容緩。 因此,我們已再撥款約港幣78萬元,支持另一個夥伴機構,到烏克蘭、波蘭、斯洛伐克三地為難民提供援助。是次項目,除了支援境外難民,亦會援助境內流徙人士,他們同樣面對難以找到食物,欠缺藥物和醫療設備等困境。 項目詳情 波蘭及斯洛伐克: 協助難民解決住宿問題、幫助難民取得政府援助、設立熱線提供資訊、財政援助、為收容難民家庭提供支援、開展教育工作幫助難民融入當地社區。 烏克蘭: 派發糧食及其他物資、現金、提供心理輔導,以及向4間診所或醫院派發藥物及醫療物資。 網上奉獻 第一階段援助 2022年2月24日,俄羅斯正式對烏克蘭發動軍事行動,由最初北、東、南三方發動攻擊,至今戰火已經蔓延全國。聯合國難民署指出,自俄烏戰爭爆發,截至3月下旬已有350多萬人逃離家園,而傷亡人數多達2,000以上(3月21日的數字)。國內大量民用設施遭到破壞,造成斷水斷電的情況,醫院服務面臨持續停電,人民要同時面對戰爭和新冠肺炎的威脅。 由戰爭開始,大量平民往西到鄰近國家避難,其中以波蘭收容難民數目最多。由聯合國難民署發放的數據顯示,截至3月21日,該國已經接收超過200萬名難民,華沙、克拉科夫等大城市收容能力亦開始見頂,需要疏導人潮。 施達夥伴在3月1日已經抵達波蘭及烏克蘭邊界為難民提供人道救援物資、健康衛生服務,以及心理和情緒支援。夥伴在波蘭,亦為收容難民的家庭提供支援,例如派發生活必需品,又在收容中心設立資訊站,為逃亡至當地的烏克蘭人提供服務,以及財政援助等。 施達決定撥款約港幣$24萬,支持海外夥伴為逃難人民提供醫療協助。我們呼籲大家祈禱讓烏克蘭人能平安地逃離戰區,並求主幫助不同機構能盡快順利開展救援工作。 項目詳情 施達夥伴在烏克蘭邊境及波蘭,向難民提供毛毯、保暖衣、日常衛生物資、情緒支援、金錢援助、設立資訊站。 網上奉獻 橫額照片:© Jana Čavojská 奉獻方法 (請註明:烏克蘭緊急救援工作) 如籌得奉獻金額超出以上資助撥款,餘款將撥入本會設立的「緊急救援及災前預防儲備金」,以助我們日後迅速回應各地的災難,減輕災難對社區的影響。

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LETTER FROM CEDAR | JAN 2023

Dear Supporters, Just last month in December, I went to Nepal for project monitoring, not only to review the local projects, but more importantly, to meet up with our local partners. The situations that they faced were easily beyond what I could imagine or comprehend by being in Hong Kong. The hard work they have put in to serve the local people often brings me great encouragement and touch. I am always encouraged by the pleasing results of what our Nepalese partners have achieved over the years, and there are many successful examples of community transformation, such as transforming women in grass-roots communities to have more opportunities to get more choices in life or to be educated; enabling

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‘SHARE’ 247 – THE AES GIRLS WE ENCOUNTERED IN NEPAL

Written by: Ness Ma (Communications Officer) My colleagues and I had a trip to Nepal. We met our partner (Samari Utthan Sewa) in the southern part of the country for a new project, ‘Prevention of Trafficking and Exploitation of Women and Girls in the Adult Entertainment Sector’. We would like to know the progress of the newly launched project on-site. Unexpectedly, one of the stops turned out to be a visit to a ‘nightclub’. We were overwhelmed by the raucous singing and accompaniment in the nightclub that we had to shout to hear each other. Almost every customer around us was puffing out clouds of smoke. They walked up to the stage and swayed their bodies to the

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Words from a Youth of Nepal

Written by Ness Ma (Communications Officer) In November 2022, the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC(COP27) took place in Egypt. Shreya KC, a 24-year-old youth from Nepal, spoke at the conference, ‘we constantly live in fear of being drowned(by the ice water).’ Why did she say that? What the climate conference has to do with Nepal’s glaciers? In fact, the impact of climate change has not only resulted in such phenomena as storm surges and sea level rise, which we often hear of, but it also led to the threat of flooding in Nepal, located in the Himalayas. The water that floods the country’s land is not the sea but the melting ice

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Children Living in Disasters

Previous Next children living in disasters Floods, droughts, heatwaves… as adults struggle with different natural disasters, we can imagine just how much children suffer physically, mentally and emotionally when faced with such catastrophes. Children are not yet mature in their physical development as opposed to adults and suffer more serious impacts due to disasters. And when disasters affect their parents and adult caregivers, children’s care and protection are lost, jeopardising their emotional and mental health. As family livelihood is destroyed by natural disasters, children will also be forced to have their education halted due to the loss of financial support. They may also become homeless or even orphaned. CEDAR Fund promotes humanitarian aid and disaster risk reduction programmes

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Poor Countries Suffer the Worst Consequences of Climate Crisis

Written by Samuel Chiu “If you, Israel, will return,    then return to me,”declares the Lord.“If you put your detestable idols out of my sight    and no longer go astray, and if in a truthful, just and righteous way    you swear, ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’then the nations will invoke blessings by him    and in him they will boast.” This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem:“Break up your unplowed ground    and do not sow among thorns. Jeremiah 4:1-3 Among the environmental news from 2019 to 2020, the forest fires in the United States, Australia and Europe were the most striking. The scope of the fires was unprecedentedly widespread. The frightening scenes had been widely covered by the media. Severe forest fires in

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‘SHARE’ 247 – The AES Girls We Encountered in Nepal

Editor’s Note At the end of November just past, CEDAR’s staff members went to Nepal to visit several partners. During the trip, apart from showing our care for our partners, we also monitored the progress of the projects, hoping that the projects would have better results. In ‘Focus’ of this issue, is the sharing from our staff about the new project ‘Prevention of Trafficking and Exploitation of Women and Girls in the Adult Entertainment Sector‘ in Nepal and the situation of the beneficiaries. In ‘Back to the Bible’, we can think about the relationship between climate change and developing countries and how we in rich areas can lend a helping hand from the Book of Jeremiah. In ‘Learn

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