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Luisa Chiquede, a beneficiary of the Yambasu Agriculture Initiative in Massinga, Mozambique, proudly shows her harvested cassava root, a particularly valuable product in Mozambique.
Photo: Courtesy of Blair Moses Karmanga
Global Ministries helps communities improve their food security through agricultural training and capacity building. Through the Yambasu Agriculture Initiative (YAI), named for the late Bishop John K. Yambasu of Sierra Leone, we work with United Methodist annual conferences and episcopal areas in Africa to lead agricultural projects that build self-sustaining communities.
Learn more about the scope of our agriculture and food security work in 2024.
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McDowell County is one of the poorest in the U.S., and the communities of Anawalt, Leckie and Gary are some of the hardest hit by the current six-year water crisis. All have Methodist churches that are part of the Welch Charge.
To ease the burden of residents who have to purchase many gallons of drinking water weekly, the Welch Charge contacted the West Virginia Conference Disaster Response Coordinator, Jim McCune, for help. McCune’s United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) connection put him in touch with Global Ministries’ Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) program.
A WASH grant allowed them to obtain a 500-gallon “water buffalo.” The conference disaster response team arranged to fill the portable water buffalo from the Welch water system, the county seat of McDowell, and transport it to Gary, where residents have been supplied with refillable containers. Residents of all three towns can come to get water, and volunteers will also continue deliveries for those who need it. Meanwhile, residents, including church members, continue to advocate state and local officials for a permanent solution to their aging, compromised water infrastructure. Full Story
