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Photo of the week: Beautiful young girl nurses her baby in Dichpally, India
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NEW! Seeking applicants for Student Communications Officer
Uniting Church Overseas Aid is hiring. Click here for more information.
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Click here to learn more about the work of Young Ambassadors for Peace
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Human Rights
4.12.2008 2008 is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60th anniversary. It's time for a global conversation about human rights and the values that unite us as one human family
It can also be a time when each of us chooses to take human rights into our daily lives, individually and collectively. Visit http://www.everyhumanhasrights.org/ for more information and to sign the declaration.
| Support Joy Balazo
 30.10.08 On Wednesday 29th October Joy Balazo, secretary and founder of Young Ambassadors for Peace - the peace and reconciliation program of Uniting Church Overseas Aid - was interviewed by Richard Fidler during the conversation hour on ABC radio.
The interview was inspired by Joy's recent trip to the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, where she witnessed 32 enemy tribes signing peace agreements. This event has come from seven years of Joy's hard work in the region.
Joy was also interviewed recently by James Carleton on ABC Radio National. To listen to the interview click here
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PEACE for the Hela Region
 On the 2nd of October, 2008 a long hoped for event occurred with hugs, handshakes and flags flying high. No it wasn’t the Mardi Gras. 32 warring tribes based in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea came together to sign permanent peace treaties after decades of war and conflict. In some ways the two events are similar; they were both crowded, both colourful and both had a powerful and impacting statement to make.
The ‘Tari District Peace Agreement’ was negotiated through peace-building activities by a dedicated team of local volunteers working for Australian organisation, Young Ambassadors for Peace (YAP), a program of Uniting Church Overseas Aid.
Click here to read full article
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| NEW! Gifts of Love Catalogue 'Everything in Common' Available Now
 The latest edition of 'Gifts of Love' has been renamed. The 'Everything in Common- Gifts of Love to a World in Need' website has gone live with the catalogue soon to follow.
Visit www.everythingincommon.com.au to browse a range of invaluable gifts from Uniting Internation Mission, Uniting Church Overseas Aid, People in Mission and Young Ambassadors for Peace. You can give directly to a range of our programs and learn how your contribution directly relates to the lives of those featured. Keep an eye out for the catalogue, hitting letter boxes in coming weeks.
Click here to read more.
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New Update Reports
We have recently recieved several update reports from our projects in the field.
 Zambia - Click here to read the latest report from UCOA's Orphans and Vulnerable Children Project in Mwandi, Zambia.
Burma - Click here to read the latest report from ACT - from the aid and development field in Burma.
Vanuatu - Click here to read a project update from UCOA's Eye Care Project in Vanuatu.
Dichpalli - Click here to read the latest report from UCOA's Skills Training Project in Dichpalli, India.
| 2008 is the international year of sanitation!
 UCOA have undertaken to include sanitation in all water projects from now onwards. This means teaching community education on sanitation in villages where we build a water supply. We will also build sanitary toilets / latrines in every village in which we build a water supply.
Ideally, in a PNG village there should be one toilet for every family or maximum for every 20 people. It is important that we build these toilets at least 5 meters away from all houses but no more than 100 meters away, as the villagers are then less inclined to use them.
You can learn more about the international year of sanitation at the following websites:
http://esa.un.org/iys/
http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/jpc/water-of-life.pdf
http://www.oikoumene.org/en/activities/ewn-home.html
| Appeal for Burma
 On the 5th September 08 National Director Kerry Enright presented a cheque for $66,000 to Alistair Gee from Act for Peace. This money will go directly to aid and development in Burma. Click here to read more
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AddValue Gifts Appeal
For every dollar you contribute, we can access up to three more dollars from an Australian Government Grant to support projects in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. To find out more about this appeal, click on the image below.
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 Lent Event 08
Thankyou to all churches who participated in this year's Lent Event. To give a secure online donation to Lent Event click here and fill out the simple form.
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This year Uniting Church Overseas Aid aims to provide safe water and sanitation for 8 more rural villages in the Pacific. This will help around 8,000 people who lack access to safe, clean water.
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UCOA is a signatory to the Micah Challenge | Micah Challenge - Christians Mobilising Against Poverty
The Micah Challenge is a global Christian campaign that aims to raise a voice for and with those in poverty. It looks inward, deepening Christian commitment to work for, and with, poorer communities, and outwards, urging national leaders to fulfil public commitments to halve global poverty by 2015. Learn more about the campaign and how to get involved.
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