4 MDG – Well on our way

12 Afghanistan – “I am not ashamed Mission East that my wife is working” Number 2 / AUTUMN 2010

f o C u s Discovering Armenia all over again 2 Contents 4-5 Armenia 2015 – Tatevik went back to Armenia to – The countdown for 2015 discover a country she did not know continues at full speed "If my family had not felt compelled to move In this issue we give you an overview of to Denmark when I was five years old, the Mission East’s contribution in reaching the Armenian fear would have been my fear today Millennium Development Goals. too," says Tatevik Revazian after a four-month internship with Mission East in Armenia.

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10-11 Armenia – One day in the support group gives me strength to face another week Shoghakat has lived an isolated life in her home since she found out she was HIV positive. Her three children and her weekly visits to a support group (the only time she leaves the house) keep her alive.

12-14 Afghanistan 15 ”Women have the right to work – and the responsibility to contribute” Humanitarian aid Not all men in the villages where Mission East – Mission East, works in Afghanistan are willing to let their ECHO and You wives participate in projects and activities Responding to humanitarian introduced by ‘outsiders’. But Nayeeb Khan, crises is an important part of Ming Mohammad, and Amir Hamza applaud Mission East’s mandate. We are their wives’ contributions to the family running humanitarian projects in income via poultry keeping. These three men three of our project countries. shared with us their families’ stories.

Front page photo: Mission East is a Danish international Head Office in Hellerup, Denmark Board At the beginning of the aid organisation. We exist to deliver relief Managing Director Dr. Kim Hartzner Chairman Dr. Peter Bernhard year, Tatevik Revazian from and development assistance to vulnerable Communications Director Jesper Holst Dr. Thomas Ploug communities with a primary focus on Eastern Liaison Officer Filip Buff Pedersen Robert Kelley Denmark revisited the country Europe and Asia. Journalist Tania Rusbjerg Bethan Ilett she was born in. As an intern Based on Christian values, Mission East aims Bookkeeper Carina Joy Gates Kenneth Whitelaw-Jones, consultant to board with Mission East in Armenia to support the most vulnerable, making no she met Lucine and several racial, political or religious distinction between Mission East Office in Brussels, Belgium Editorial staff others of the children with a those in need. Operations Director Floris Faber Kim Hartzner disability who need help. Mission East currently operates directly or Programme Director Ruth Faber Tania Rusbjerg through local partners in Afghanistan, Armenia, Finance Director Peter Drummond Smith Nepal, Tajikistan, Romania and Bulgaria. Finance Manager Marianne Le Floch Production The assistance offered by Mission East is sup­ Information Systems Support Richard Rosendahls, Esbjerg ported by a range of private and public donors Peppiette such as the Danish Ministry of Foreign Afffairs, Desk Officers Saskia de Smet, ISSN 0908-2042 European Union and the United Nations. Alex Ramos Peña, Jacques Dailloux Mission East has been verified compliant with and Kendrah Jespersen www.miseast.org the People in Aid Code of Good Practice in the management and support of aid personnel. e d i t o r i a l 3

Break at a school in Tajikistan. Photo: Mission East. 2015 – Doing what we can The Millennium about what they can do about From Mission East’s very Development Goals for it. But we are trusted to see beginning 19 years ago – eradicating poverty are being opportunities and solutions using the family’s dining reviewed in New York in in even the most difficult table at home as my office – September – and according countries like Afghanistan up until today, opportunities to the MDG Report 2010 the and Tajikistan. We see for us have never been as goals can be achieved if we solutions for the marginalized many as they are now. We are work hard and work together. and for the people with dis­ doing what we abilities who live in Armenia can – and we do From Mission East’s very However, with two thirds of and Tajikistan. Yes, even in it because you beginning 19 years ago – using the world’s poor in the East Nepal’s most remote hunger make it possible. the family’s dining table at home and in Asia, there is no time disasters, it is possible to Welcome to a as my office –up until today, for Mission East to rest on reach out with our assistance. new magazine opportunities for us have never our laurels. Many countries from Mission been as many as they are now. in Asia today are better able Again we therefore meet East showing to solve their poverty related people in this magazine with you how your problems than previously, but a new light in their eyes, with support to an organisation some countries face extreme courage in life despite heavy for people in the East and difficulties in keeping up. defeats and struggles. Women Asia is helping to move us who cry together and work towards the main goal. We see them shaken by the together. Children who are worst of all life’s evils: war, doing their mother’s hard work disease, extreme weather honour by doing their best at conditions and a growing school. Strong and courageous number of disasters – all in men, who are not afraid to Dr. Kim Hartzner, acute shortage of knowledge commend their wives. Managing Director of Mission East 4 M i l l e nn i u m D e v e l o p m e nt G o a l s

The countdown to 2015 continues at full speed On 20-22 September, world things halve the proportion of to the UN MDG Report from 2010. leaders meet in New York to people whose income is less than Here we give you an overview ensure that the eight goals for a $1 a day, achieve universal primary of Mission East’s contribution in better world are achieved. education and reduce the risks reaching the goals. The work is far that each year claims the lives of more extensive than we are able to The Millennium Development millions of children and pregnant describe on these pages, so please Brazil Goals were adopted by 189 heads women. The goals are to be go to www.miseast.org for more

of state in the year 2000. By acting achieved within the next five years information. UNDP © together we want to among other and we are well on track according Icons:

Parents able to feed their children Afghanistan, Armenia, Nepal, Romania, Tajikistan Nothing is worse than not being able to feed your children. Mission East helps families in the East Goal 1: Eradicate to help themselves long-term through improved agriculture, irrigation systems to dry fields, and extreme poverty training in food processing of fruit and vegetables. Recently, extremely poor villages in Nepal’s and hunger remote mountain area have experienced progress in the middle of a hunger crisis. Disaster risk management projects protect these good results from the destructive nature of earthquakes and floods which often occur in the East.

Children with disabilities learn to read Afghanistan, Armenia, Nepal Disability is associated with much shame in Armenia and parents often feel compelled to hide Goal 2: Achieve their children away at home. In cooperation with our local partner organisation Mission East universal primary has identified hundreds of these children with disabilities and ensured that a new national law education now gives them the same right to schooling as children without disabilities. In Afghanistan, Mission East has built schools in areas struck by poverty. And by helping parents in the East to create a sufficient income for the whole family, children get the opportunity to attend school instead of having to go to work.

Women as the key to development Afghanistan, Nepal, Tajikistan In Afghanistan and Nepal, women live an isolated life within the marital home while the Goal 3: Promote husband struggles to support the family. In small self help groups women meet regularly to start gender equality and common savings from which they are all able to take out loans. These loans help them start empower women small businesses, thereby helping them create an income for themselves and their households. 5

Clean water for the world’s most endangered children Afghanistan, Armenia, Nepal, Tajikistan In Afghanistan, every fourth child dies before the age of five, which is one of the world’s highest rates Goal 4: Reduce of child mortality. Nepal and Tajikistan also rank perilously high on the list. Here, clean water and child mortality basic hygiene education dramatically decrease the number of deaths. In Armenia, Mission East and our partners ensure medical care for children who have a life-threatening disability, such as heart failure.

Giving life should not end another Afghanistan, Tajikistan Badakhshan, one of the two Afghan provinces where Mission East works, is at the top of the list Target 5: Improve of places in the world of maternal death during pregnancy. 86% of all births in Afghanistan take maternal health place without the help of trained doctors and midwives. Improved infrastructure in the Afghan mountains makes it easier to get to hospital in a hurry. And in Tajikistan, Mission East has been working with young people – men and women – on issues of reproductive health.

Leading the fight against an AIDS epidemic Armenia Right now, the AIDS epidemic is at risk of spreading from Russia and Ukraine to the rest of Eastern Objective 6: Combat Europe: One of two regions in the world where HIV prevalence remains on the rise. In 2009, Mission HIV/AIDS, malaria East was selected as primary recipient in Global Fund’s fight against AIDS in Armenia for a programme and other diseases which runs until the end of 2015. There is much shame attached to HIV/AIDS in Armenia and talking openly of the disease is considered much worse than the risk of infecting spouses and children.

No more infected drinking water Afghanistan, Nepal, Tajikistan Goal 7: Ensure Nowhere else in the world will you find as many people living without proper sanitation as in environmental Afghanistan. Only 22% percent of the population has access to clean drinking water. Goal 7 sustainability seeks to halve the number of people living without these facilities. In the year 2010 alone several thousand people in Afghanistan, Nepal and Tajikistan have received wells and tap stands, providing them with life supporting water. In the remote mountain area of Nepal, villagers are educated in the importance of sensible logging, protecting their environment and helping prevent natural disasters.

Putting focus on problems and solutions Goal 8 is about strengthening the global partnership and cooperating on better conditions for poor Goal 8: Develop a countries concerning trade, economy, technology and other areas. As an NGO Mission East tries global partnership for to influence the decision makers by putting focus on problems and solutions through our active development participation and lobbying in Danish, European and global NGO networks and alliances. 6 a r m e n i a

GEORGIEN

GYUMRI VANADZOR

AZERBAIJAN Tatevik went back to Armenia to YEREVAN SOT’K’ Armenia discover a country she did not know

ANGEGHAKOT’ TURKEY KAPAN AZERBAIJAN IRAN “If my family had not felt compelled to move to Denmark when I was five years old, the Armenian Danish-Armenian fear would have been my context far back fear today too,” says Tatevik in history Revazian after a four-month internship with Mission East Just as the Armenians do in Armenia. not forget their painful past, neither do they Tatevik, 22, knows the coun­ forget those who helped try she was born in mostly when they needed it the from short summer visits. most. Karen Jeppe from In the past, she told friends Tatevik with her brother Alexander and her father in one of Denmark, whose name is about her trips to Armenia Yerevan’s parks before the family fled to Denmark. rarely recognized in her using words such as “beautiful home country, is still known nature” and “nice weather”. do not remember anything By Tania Maria Lüders as Armenia’s Mother But today, she describes the but fragments from the “dark Rusbjerg, Mission East’s journalist among the population. country differently. years”, as they were called. During the genocide in Earlier this year she spent But Armenians are still so 1915 she provided bread four months as a trainee at influenced by what once was. and took care of the sick Mission East’s office in the Famine, war, an era when when the deportation former Soviet republic. Her it was colder inside than trains stopped in her town, everyday life as a student at outside and where people in and by hiding people from Copenhagen Business School desperation cut down trees the Turkish soldiers she in Denmark was replaced everywhere to get firewood. rescued several Armenians with several heartbreaking I have learned that after 19 from death. visits among two of Armenia’s years as an independent Mission East entered most excluded groups: the country “the Soviet state of Armenia in 1992 when the HIV-positive and children mind” is still so deeply rooted economy collapsed and with disabilities. in the majority of the popu­ people were desperate for lation. Even among young supplies of food from the “The fear of history repeating people,” Tatevik says. outside community. Today itself and returning back we advocate for the rights to old times is so rooted in No payment? of people with disabilities people that they do not have In Armenia there is not the at local level all the way the capacity to take care social safety net known in up to government level. of the most vulnerable in other parts of Europe. If you society. I was only a little girl fall sick and do not have when we left Armenia, so I money to pay the medical 7

Tatevik with her father on the square in the centre of the Tatevik went back to Armenia to capital Yerevan. discover a country she did not know

bills, there is not much you I worked in some of the can do other than observe children’s clubs,” says Tatevik. as a broken leg turns into a “I remember clearly how lifelong disability. People, parents marvelled at the especially in the poorer regi­ free help: “You don’t want ons, are not used to having any payment?” they asked, access to these services. And surprised. For so long they even if they did they would have lived in a world where years ago, her family sent not be able to afford them. it is necessary to fight to be her to Russia to get help heard and where everything from specialists who weren’t “I visited several of the has a price.” available in Armenia. But medical centres, Mission East when their savings were and local partner organisa­ Tatevik adds: “I myself have spent, her parents had to stop tions have built for children a cousin with a physical the treatment. Today it is too with disabilities in the recent disability in Armenia. When late to do anything about her years, and in my spare time she was a child, about 30 disability. Her life would have

“I was five years old when I last celebrated my birth­ day in Armenia. This year I had the opportunity to celebrate number 22 with my grandparents,” says Tatevik, photographed with her grandpa in Armenia. 8 a r m e n i a

Tatevik visited among others Rasvik who is attending third grade: “He cannot use his legs, and yet he is determined to become a professional soccer player when he grows up! If only the rest of Armenia could see the same potential in him, as he does...”

been a lot different if these of distributing the funds to “The limitations the clinics had existed then.” organisations in Armenia Armenians have could have to stop the AIDS epidemic, been my limitations if my Stopping AIDS which is at the risk of sprea­ family had chosen to stay,” Besides the work to ensure ding rapidly from Russia and she concludes. people with disabilities ac­ Ukraine. “Instead I have been given a cess to schools and medical “The work for people with life full of opportunities. And care, Tatevik disabilities really impressed I’m pleased that for me a part has been a part me. And equally remarkable of this can mean extending of Mission is it that Mission East has opportunities to people East’s role as been selected as the first ever who otherwise wouldn’t primary recipient Danish organisation to spear­ have them. Right now I’m Did you know to funds from head The Global Fund’s effort considering how I can use my that Millennium The Global Fund to contain the AIDS epidemic education when I graduate to Development Goal to Fight AIDS, so threatening to Armenia engage more in development Number 2 is to achieve Tuberculosis and now and in the coming years,” for Armenia and its people.” universal primary Malaria. To the Tatevik says. Her internship education? year 2015 Mission has given her a lot of thoughts East is in charge regarding her own life. 9 “People here are not ready for a child like Lucine”

Tatevik talks about one of her understand how her surround­ me her papers, where the By Tatevik Revazian, meetings with the children ings view her, and how people doctors had written that Lucine former intern with Mission East in Armenia and parents, Mission East especially notice the things she initially could not speak and and our partners are helping: is unable to do. Although she constantly was restless. But the can neither read nor write she Lucine I met now had a good Lucine’s mother, Lena, had was so eager to show me that vocabulary and had learned tears in her eyes when she told she can at least pretend and to listen attentively when her me about the neighbours in dream about it. mother talked to her. And she the village. She said she tries also cleans and tidies up after to teach her little daughter, Found hope in new centre herself at home, that one should not mind what “People here are not ready Lena proudly told They say its my fault that Lucine other people think. But I saw for a child like Lucine,” Lena me and added: was born with a disability because clearly in her response, how explained to me. “I had lost I was too old when I gave birth to much it still affects her when “That’s why I would rather keep hope. But in the her. I was 36 years old. people laugh at Lucine and talk her indoors. They do not see her centre I found it badly about the family behind as a human being. They see her again.” her back. as an outcast.” When I was about to leave, “They say it’s my fault that Until about two years ago Lucine came running towards Lucine was born with a disabil­ Lucine lived most of her life in me and gave me a kiss. How ity because I was too old when I isolation at home. But then, in great would it be if the neigh­ gave birth to her. I was 36 years a joint project, one of Mission bours too one day could meet old,” Lena told me. East's local partner organisations the Lucine I met that day. 10-year-old Lucine is an opened a medical centre where energetic bundle of joy. She she is now receiving help with is not yet old enough to fully her development. Lena showed 10 a r m e n i a One day in the support group gives me strength to face another week

43-year-old Shoghakat has lived an isolated life in her home since she found out she was HIV positive. Her three children and her weekly visits to a support group (the only time she leaves the house) keep Text and photo: Tania her alive. Maria Lüders Rusbjerg, Mission East Journalist “It all began in 2004 when I had just given birth to my daughter. My husband returned from Russia after working there for a while, and said that he had something serious to tell me: He didn’t want me to breastfeed. I didn’t understand why. But that’s all he wanted to “My life will never be the same again. I can’t escape the thought of say. All kinds of thoughts went being sick. I think about it every day... especially in the evening when through my mind: Maybe he the children are in bed and everything is quiet,” says Shoghakat, who finds solace in her time each week with the support group she attends wanted a divorce, or maybe he for people living with HIV/AIDS. Shoghakat is pictured here with her had a second family in Russia?” daughter but requested that we didn’t photograph her face.

Shoghakat explains that the family faced a very difficult My husband was infected. front of him and asked why he time after that. She was angry I lost my temper and didn’t had kept it secret. with her know what to do with myself. “He said he had not been sure husband, who I wanted to run out of the that he had HIV. He thought I didn’t know where to be tested, would not give house, but I felt my legs sud­ he might have gotten the virus and I didn’t dare to ask anyone. I her clear answers denly weaken and I had to sit during a blood transfusion in was ashamed. about what was down instead. My first thought Russia.” wrong. After a was of our newborn daughter. month’s time, answers came in Was she infected? My face Lost 18 kg the form of a letter. was pale when my 11-year-old In 2005, Shoghakat’s husband son asked me: “Mom, what’s died. At that time she had still Letter from Russia wrong?”. I told him to call his not been tested herself. “It was a letter to my husband father and ask him to come.” “I didn’t know where to be from Russia. I opened it tested, and I didn’t dare to ask and saw the stamp from a When Shoghakat’s husband anyone. I was ashamed and clinic and the letters H I V in showed up an hour later she afraid of being discriminated Russian. It was a test result. threw the letter on the table in against and that people would 11

ask questions or stop having “She told me where my It was such a relief. A great contact with me.” husband had gone when he weight had been lifted off my Shoghakat began to isolate was sick. And I decided to shoulders.” herself at home. She would visit the AIDS Centre with my Today Shoghakat attends weekly not even talk to her two sons, daughter to be tested.” meetings facilitated by one of and the only thing she could the organisations receiving think about was whether she Solace in the support group financial support was HIV positive or not. She “When they told me that I was from “The Global During a visit to her sister-in- stopped going outside and did infected, everything turned Fund to Fight law’s house, her sister-in-law not meet with anyone – not into darkness. I was happy for AIDS, Tuberculosis had thrown away all the cups even the neighbours. my daughter, who fortunately and Malaria”, as and plates which Shoghakat’s was not infected, but at the part of the grant husband had used. But in the spring of 2007, same time I thought to myself: administered by when she became so ill that This is the end of my life. Who Mission East. she couldn’t eat anything for is going to take care of my “I don’t know if I’ll ever fully an entire week and lost 18 kg children?” come out of my isolation... or in an unusually short period whether I will ever be able to of time, she decided to contact Doctors and counselors at talk to my neighbours again,” her sister-in-law. Shoghakat’s the AIDS Centre convinced Shoghakat says, “but just one sister-in-law knew about her Shoghakat that there was hope, visit with the group gives me own brother’s HIV infection. and before long she began the strength to face another Shoghakat became aware of this treatment on anti-retroviral week.” long ago when during a visit drugs to keep the HIV infec­ to the sister-in-law’s house her tion at bay. She was invited to sister-in-law had thrown away participate in support groups, When Shoghakat discove­ all the cups and plates which but had absolutely no desire to red that her husband was Shoghakat’s husband had used. share her shameful illness with HIV infected, she feared that her daughter, who is others. now five years old, was also infected. “I feared being mistreated. I was ashamed and did not trust them. They said there were Did you know other people living with HIV, that Goal Number but I did not believe them. 6 of the Millennium Then my doctor told me Development Goals is that he wouldn’t give me the to combat HIV/AIDS, medicine unless I participated malaria and other in the group. So I did. There, diseases? for the first time, I realized that there were others just like me. 12 A f g h an i s tan

”My mother also raised chickens when I was a little boy. But the chickens died quickly because of diseases and because she did not know how to take care of them. I remember that she was so disap­ pointed when she did not get any eggs in return for her effort,” Nayeeb Khan says. He is happy that his wife, Bibi Gul, has learned to care for their poultry in the right way.

”Women have the right to work – and the responsibility to contribute”

Not all men in the villages where Mission East works in Afghanistan are willing to let their wives participate in projects and activities introduced by ‘outsiders’. But Nayeeb Khan, Ming Mohammad, and Amir Hamza applaud their wives’ contributions to the family income via poultry keeping. These three men shared with us their views. • Tell us about your family’s struggle to make an income. Ming Mohammad: I confess that the farming job I do can’t cover my family’s needs for even three months of the year. In our society – particularly in rural areas – men are responsible to provide food and clothes as well as sending children to school. But I work in the heat for just a small amount of money. There are no job opportunities in the village. The poultry has impro­ ved our circumstances and I am not ashamed that my wife is working. She contributes with an extra income.

Amir Hamza: I was the one who encouraged my wife to participate in the poultry Children who work in the field activities. At the local market there are so many cheap crops imported from serve only their family. If they abroad that my farming is unprofitable. become educated they become valuable to the whole village and • Do you help your wives with the poultry? will serve more people. Nayeeb Khan: Previously, it was shameful for men to help women with house­ hold chores. Poultry is considered a household chore and men should not do 13

When Ming Mohammad looks at his wife, Gul Andam, he looks at her with respect and love. But he started that it. But now I think things long before she have changed. People began selling eggs and contributing financi­ agree that it is better and ally to the household, benefits the whole family he assures lovingly. to help each other. I have helped my wife build the coop and to feed the animals.

Amir Hamza: I help my wife clean the coop and to sell the eggs at the market.

• What do you think about women working? Ming Mohammad: For some men it is a shame to ask their wife, sisters, or daughters to work outside the home. However, this is now changing to some extent.

Nayeeb Khan: Some village men are not happy that women are working and earning money. But gradually there is an acceptance of the fact that men’s income alone does not cover the family’s expenses and that women should also contribute. The farming yields remain the same but living costs are going up and we need to earn more to meet our basic needs.

Amir Hamza: Women have the right to work as well as the responsibility to help contribute to the household. In our society women are not free to go outside and For some men it is a shame to ask many have to stay at home. But in recent years, living costs have become much their wife, sisters, and daughters to higher and now everyone has to contribute. work outside the home. However, this is now changing to some extent. Ming Mohammad: I am happy that my wife has her poultry. I consider myself an open-minded person and I am not against women working outside the home.

”In our society women are not free to go outside and many have to stay at home. But in recent years, living costs have become much higher and now everyone Did you know has to contribute,” that Millennium says Amir Hamza Development Goal who encouraged Number 3 is to promote his wife, Gulzar, to become a part gender equality and of Mission East’s empower women? poultry project. 14 A f g h an i s tan

Ming Mohammad does not at all mind A country of children helping his wife collect the eggs and clean the chicken Nearly half of Afghanistan’s coop. population is under 15 years of age. Of the rest, less than one third is able to read and write. The future of the country largely depends on the next generation and the opportunities available regarding education and work. This means that more children – and more girls – need to attend school. You can help by suppor­ ting projects such as the poultry project in Afghanistan, which makes it financially possible for parents to provide their children with an education.

How do you feel about your daughters going to school? Nayeeb Khan: Some men in the local community feel ashamed to see their girls going to school. But I think this is a social constraint and not a reflection of their own hopes for their daughters. “In my family we respect our wives and daughters,” says Amir Hamza: I encourage my children – girls and boys – to go to school. If they work in the Ming Mohammad, field they will only serve their family. If they become educated they become valuable to the Gul Andam’s happy whole village and will serve more people. husband. Nayeeb Khan: I never went to school myself. When I receive a letter I ask my children to read it for me. I am happy that my children go to school and learn things so they can become adults with good prospects for the future.

Amir Hamza: I also encourage the other men in the village to allow their daughters to go to school. People who do not let their children get an education are making a mistake and creating problems for their family and our society.

Nayeeb Khan: Men and women have an equal right to learn. The people who are against girls’ education do not know about women’s rights.

Read more about the Afghan women and their poultry at www.miseast.org under ’Publications’. 15

Mission East, ECHO and You

Responding to humanitarian and German Ministry of crises is an important part Foreign Affairs and by ECHO, of Mission East’s mandate. the European Commission’s We are running humanita- Directorate General for rian projects in three of our Humanitarian Aid & Civil project countries. Protection. ECHO’s mandate is to provide emergency assistance and relief to the Afghanistan is placed at victims of natural disasters the top of the list of “the or armed conflict outside the worst places in the world European Union. The aid for sanitation”. Most of the is intended to go directly to households in Afghanistan those in distress, irrespective do not have access to safe of race, religion or political drinking water, toilets convictions. It provides this and adequate sanitation assistance by funding so- facilities. Some 92 percent of called partner NGOs, recog­ Afghanistan’s estimated 26.6 nised and well-established million people do not have humanitarian agencies based access to proper sanitation, in the EU. and every fourth child dies before the age of five mostly Our supporters play a due to preventable diseases, vital role in helping us many caused by unclean to bring humanitarian water and bad sanitation. In assistance to the many of Tajikistan and Nepal, there is thousands of people that a need to increase resilience we support each year. and reduce the vulnerability Through your support we of local communities through are able to generate more support to strategies that funds through our public enable them to better prepare donors and ECHO. ECHO Clean water saves lives in the remote mountain areas of for, mitigate and respond to usually provides an im­ Nepal. Photo: Hartzner, Mission East natural disasters. portant part, but not all of the funding needed to run Mission East is responding to these projects. So without these situations with funds your giving we would not provided by you, our suppor­ be able to reach those in ters, foundations and public need. Thank you for your donors such as the Danish continued commitment. We need you to help others

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