Emergency Disaster Fund sends aid to Nicaraguan children.

The Church of the Brethren Emergency Disaster Fund has distributed funds to meet health concerns in Nicaragua.

A grant of $12,500 will support an Interchurch Medical Assistance (IMA) appeal to provide de-worming medication to more than one million children ages 6-12. The growth, nutrition, and school performance of these children is greatly harmed by chronic intestinal parasites. "We hope that this will also give an opportunity for people in the rural communities to have some hope and to keep going forward in difficult times," said Laura Parajon, a physician and director of Provadenic (Providing Vaccines to Rural Communities in Nicaragua), IMA's partner agency in the country.

Source: Newsline 3/05/2004
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