Funds aid Sudanese, Hondurans, Church World Service, and provide flood relief.

Grants from the General Board's Emergency Disaster Fund (EDF) and Global Food Crisis Fund (GFCF) have been given to aid victims of civil war in Sudan, economic development in Honduras, and the Church World Service Disaster Response and Recovery Liaison Program, and to provide disaster relief following flooding in Washington State and the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

An EDF allocation of $60,000 supports a Church World Service (CWS) appeal for the violence-ravaged Darfur region of Western Sudan. The funds will assist in providing food, medicine, water and sanitation, agriculture materials, and counseling to approximately 500,000 persons over the next 18 months.

The sum of $22,000 from the EDF undergirds the work of the Disaster Response and Recovery Liaison Program of CWS, as it continues to facilitate faith-based responses to disasters.

The Washington state Faith-Based Disaster Recovery Network received an EDF grant of $7,500 for its work in the wake of extensive damage caused by flooding and storms in 15 counties. Church of the Brethren Oregon/Washington District Disaster Response and other volunteers have been helping with the rebuilding of homes. The funds will provide financial support for the recovery to continue.

In the Dominican Republic and Haiti, an EDF allocation of $4,000 supports a CWS appeal for flood relief. The funds will be used to ship medical supplies, Gift of the Heart Kits, and blankets from the Brethren Service Center to the island nations. Additional appeals for long-term recovery and rebuilding efforts are expected. Another EDF grant of $7,000 will go to the Prince of Peace Church of the Brethren in the Dominican Republic, where church construction over an unforeseen sink hole has caused considerable damage and rendered a section of the building unsafe for use. The funds will assist in repair and reconstruction before additional damage occurs.

An allocation of $15,000 has been made from the GFCF to support economic development work of the Christian Commission for Development (CCD) in Honduras. The funds will support an effort to establish an agency for the promotion of micro-loan development countrywide, with the goal of raising the economic well-being of families primarily in subsistence areas.