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building community in a fragmented world...
A new bore-hole for fresh drinking water for 3 villages that Oxfam installed with the support of the Church Communities Foundation. Here the local people decided where they wanted the well located, helped with the installation and today maintain the well.
Here is a field of seed corn that has been supplied with irrigation from the Church Communities Foundation. Oxfam is working with the local people on this project and also installing new latrines for the workers.
Children in Zimbabwe being supported by the Church Communities Foundation together with Oxfam.
During an "exchange day" sponsored by the Church Communities Foundation, high school students from a Long Island suburb mixed with rural kids from upstate New York for landscaping, softball, and a campfire.
A promoter of the "whole child" approach espoused by Pestalozzi, Montessori, and Froebel, the Foundation supports schools where learning is as likely to take place outdoors, as in a classroom.
Here are some new latrines that were nearly completed. They are for the 200 school children (K-7 grade) that go to school in this rural area of Zimbabwe. Each child walks to school (some of them many kilometers each way). The local village men are building the latrines with help from some fathers of the school children.
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A registered charity that supports educational and humanitarian activities around the world, the Church Communities Foundation was formed in New York in 1956, primarily to raise funds for a South American hospital. For over 50 years, the Foundation has supported sustainable, educational and community service projects, expanding its activities into several related areas. (Click topic at left or right)