Surprising Economic Growth in Africa

It’s an amazing and little known fact that there has actually been significant economic growth going on Africa in recent years. Usually referred to as a development basket case, many African nations are surprisingly outstripping their international counterparts. There is definitely a story in this.
I heard about this while listening to lecture by Fareed Zakaria [...]

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Free Burma Mr Rudd

Now is the time, Mr Rudd, to act on Burma.
The world’s attention will still be Burma for a short while, but it needs to happen now.
As a new Prime Minister Mr Howard established his regional credibility by leading the liberation of East Timor. His commitment carried him through the ensuing setbacks, including the potential risk [...]

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Southern Cross Article

For those who didn’t see it in the June edition of Southern Cross, here is a link to the article about our aid effort for Burma.
Thanks again for all the support from back home. Our third shipment of medicines (antimalarials and antibiotics) will be leaving for the Delta in the next few days, but more [...]

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Free Burma Rangers

Last night some friends told me about these guys called the Free Burma Rangers.
The Free Burma Rangers (FBR) is a multi-ethnic humanitarian service movement. They bring help, hope and love to people in the war zones of Burma. Ethnic pro-democracy groups [...]

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How Should We Respond to Beggars?

After my recent sojourn to Cambodia this difficult emotional and theological and issue came up afresh for me. In leafy Northern Thailand poverty is hidden, in Cambodia its exposed in broad daylight.
As a general rule I have never given money out willie-nillie to beggars. In fact I have can only really recall giving money to [...]

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Second Load of Medicines Ordered

Because on our last visit we essentially bought out the university’s low-cost pharmacy out of many essential medicines, this time we have pre-ordered ‘the motherload’.
Russell happens to be the next-door neighbour with the pharmacist, and he’s given us an additional handy 5% off the price.
This time we have really bought up big:
4000 Packs of Oral [...]

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New Footage from Inside Burma

We have just received this VCD of new footage taken by Burmese Christians inside the Laputta Region.
The footage was filmed very recently and this is the first time it has been seen outside of Burma.
Please be aware this footage contains graphic images.

Clearly, absolutely nothing is being done by the Burmese Government, other than attempting to control the [...]

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News Travels Fast in Sydney Town

News of the aid drive for Burma has officially hit Sydney!
Amy has got to be stoked with beginning of line two:
Jonathon, from Sydney’s inner west …
Troy, the oppose of stoked with line one:
With most foreign aid blocked in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, a Sydney Anglican on the Thai border …
Click here to read the [...]

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The Big Shop: Aid for Burma

Well, thanks to your donations I have been able to purchase and send the first delivery of aid over into Burma.
I have received $2200 to date and have spent $1482 yesterday on the first delivery of goods to go over. Teams of Burmese Christians are going every couple of days and the [...]

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Burma Update

At the moment I understand that the junta has effectively sealed off the Delta region and is making the victims buy aid directly from them. They are keeping the world out and trying to monopolise profits at the same time.
However, as I have explained previously, the Burmese nationals are able to get through, as long [...]

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