Post-tsunami work continues.THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH is part of the fourth largest tsunami aid project approved by the Canadian government in its tsunami matching funds Noun 1. matching funds - funds that will be supplied in an amount matching the funds available from other sources cash in hand, finances, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource - assets in the form of money program. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Canadian International Development Agency's website, the project in India is only surpassed by efforts led by the three aid giants--Red Cross, World Vision and UNICEF UNICEF (y  `nĭsĕf'), the United Nations Children's Fund, an affiliated agency of the United Nations. .
Working with the United Church of Canada United Church of Canada, Protestant denomination formed in 1925 by the union of the Methodist, Congregational, and Presbyterian churches in Canada. A large number of Presbyterian congregations, however, remain outside the union. , the Mennonite Central Committee The Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is a relief, service, and peace agency representing 15 Mennonite, Brethren in Christ and Amish bodies in North America. The U.S. headquarters are in Akron, Pennsylvania, the Canadian in Winnipeg, Manitoba. and the Anglican Church of Canada, Presbyterian World Service & Development submitted the $6 million proposal to the government to use the matching funds to help rebuild three villages near Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu, India, through Action by Churches Together. The four churches also contributed $3 million to ACT for efforts in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand. Focus has moved to longer-term rehabilitation projects such as establishing mobile clinics, clean water and sanitation programs, temporary schools, offering trauma counselling and providing seeds, tools and fishing equipment. Presbyterians contributed more than $1.3 million to PWS&D's tsunami appeal, with an additional $747,956 in matching funds from the Canadian government. This enabled the church's relief agency to give more than $2 million towards tsunami relief and rehabilitation. |
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