2007 Morris Relief Sale - Celebrating God's Love
September 8th at the Morris Stampede Grounds

Water in India

Meharali Anshari, a farmer in the village of Uruduhi in West Bengal, India, has only 1 acre of land. Before participating in an MCC-supported water project, he had little access to water for his crops and was not able to grow enough food for his family. Every year, Meharali and his oldest son had to leave his wife and four other children to travel to neighboring communities to find work. Even then, Meharali’s family barely had enough food to eat two meals a day.

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Food for today in Ethiopia

Each year, MCC provides food aid in the
continent of Africa, meeting needs in places
often forgotten by newspaper headlines.

Last year, when drought struck the Afar region of Ethiopia, MCC responded by providing goat feed to nomadic families. The feed not only helped the goats survive, it helped them to produce more milk.

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