Newsletters give up to date information about CED. They are provided to members and supporters as hard copy but are also available to view here.
The Annual Review provides a snap-shot of what CED has achieved in any given year. Our accounting year runs from April to April. Our Annual Report and Accounts, a more formal (less colourful) document, can be viewed on the “about CED” page.
Other news items are added on an ad-hoc basis below.
This year it’s at Haddenham, home of the Midsomer Murders. We’ve even
organised for the day of the village fete to allow you some afternoon
entertainment, though with a really good progamme you will not want to miss
out. Further information on the “get involved” page.
This year we’ll be meeting on 18th June at City Hope Church in Bermondsey. Members are strongly encouraged to attend as we roll out the various cell groups at this event. Good speaker too. Anyone interested in the work of CED is warmly welcome. Further information on the “get involved” page.
PVDP has started work in Pakistan and Ian Rankin and Jonathan Appleby are visiting to discuss the project from 7th to 19th January. For up to date information please follow Ian’s blog
Here is a new video showing the work being carried out with PVDP in Thar Desert, Sindh. March 2012
‘Water in the Desert’ Daevoo’s Story October 2011
We spent Sunday afternoon preparing a video of the trip with PVDP’s Emmanuel Guddu.
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CED Engineer Rob Wakeling is working away in Iringa preparing the water pipeline for a visit by the President of Tanzania. Ian Rankin is about to join him after a visit to Zanzibar. You can follow Ian’s trip by clicking on this link .
When our partners, PVDP, were hoping to set up the new project to help several undred people in a dry area of Sindh, their focus has dramatically shifted to supporting people affected by the floods.
They need our prayers and support. CED is not set up for relief work. If you’d like to help, you may find the following websites helpful:
TearFund: http://www.tearfund.org/News/Pakistan+flood/
PVDP: pvdp sindh website appears corrupted. Please contact Dominic Stephen on pvdpsind@yahoo.com or phone +92-0334-3027838
PVDP resources include a trained Disaster Response team, 40 full time trained staff, four wheel drive vehicles, own offices, 300 volunteers, 150 established Community Development Organizations and well established links with district government, provincial government, ministry of health, civil society organizations and networks.
Dominic Stephen, Executive Director PVDP, Contact: 092-345-3700100.
On 7 August the Scottish Government announced that CED had been successful in its application with PVDP for funds to help poor communities in the Thar Desert area of Pakistan. The grant is for £145,000 and is to be spent over 3 years. A total of £415,450 was allocated to Pakistan with other grants to other countries in the region to a total of £5,550,000.
More information can be found on our project page
This year the Open Day took place in Glasgow. Nearly all our members based in Scotland attended, bringing the total number above last year’s meeting and vindicating the decision to move from the South of UK. The day gave some fascinating insights into the work of CED and we hope will have whetted the appetites of those present to travel South next year.
Our guest speaker was Christine Kilipamwambu, the Diocesan Development Officer in Ruaha, Iringa, Tanzania. She described the work the Anglican Church is doing in a poor and dry part of the country and the difference that bringing water to people was having on their quality of life. As a result of previous collaboration with CED at nearby Kilolo where 9,000 people were supplied with water,
Domestic matters covered included approving the accounts and appointing new directors. There was a fair bit of discussion about the “reinvigorating process” and people look forward to new developments in CED.
