Third Quarter Response Fund Report

Thursday, October 4, A.D. 2007

Greetings from Week of Compassion, and thank you for your continued support. Your generosity, concern and prayers bring help and hope to countless people throughout the world. We are grateful here; many more elsewhere are grateful.

Within the WOC budget, the single largest line item is the Compassion Response Fund. Through this allocation (and special designated accounts), WOC is able to respond promptly to emergencies, disasters and other urgent humanitarian requests as they arise. Below is a brief summary of responses we have made through September 30, 2007, from the Response Fund and certain designated disaster accounts. This is, of course, only a snapshot and does not include other resources we are providing for long-term sustainable development projects. But we do hope it will offer an overview of the many emergency needs to which we Disciples are responding. Three-quarters of the way through this year, WOC has provided $1,059,786 in relief and recovery grants to 209 requests/situations for an average of once every 1.3 days!

Nearly 800 Disciples congregations have now requested the WOC interactive map/poster to track emergency and long-term development responses on a weekly basis. It is a good visual tool for Disciples to see how our gifts are used around the world, around the year. A complete list of those responses since January 1 is on the WOC website For a complimentary map/poster, contact Elaine at 317.713.2442 or email her at ecleveland@woc.disciples.org.

2007 Third Quarter Response Fund Update:

Africa: [$192,555]
2,000 – Angola, cholera outbreak
6,000 – Burundi, relief and recovery
6,000 – DR Congo, emergency relief
3,000 – Kenya, refugee assistance, emergency flood\food relief
6,000 – Madagascar, cyclone relief
1,000 – Mauritania, drought assistance
9,500 – Mozambique, earthquake and arsenal explosion
114,000 – Sudan, Darfur crisis, floods, medical initiative
6,000 – Uganda, refugee assistance
5,000 – Zambia, floods
28,055 – Zimbabwe, emergency transportation, water and food relief

East Asia and the Pacific: [19,000]
9,000 – China, earthquake and flood relief
2,000 – Japan, earthquake relief
8,000 – Solomon Islands, tsunami relief

Latin America and the Caribbean: [$65,000]
7,000 – Central America hurricane relief
11,000 – Colombia, floods and volcanoes
10,000 – Dominican Republic, health emergency
2,000 – Haiti, flood relief
5,000 – Jamaica/Cayman Islands, hurricane relief
18,000 – Mexico, hurricane housing emergency
6,000 – Nicaragua, hurricane relief
6,000 – Peru, earthquake relief

Middle East and Europe: [$37,000]
5,000 – Bosnia, peace/reconciliation initiative
14,000 – Iraq, Jordan, Syria, refugee and IDP appeal
6,000 – Lebanon, emergency relief
12,000 – Palestine/Gaza, emergency medical/food relief

Southern Asia: [$239,438]
3,000 – Central Asia, disaster mitigation appeal
179,939 – India, tsunami recovery, flood relief
43,500 – Indonesia, floods and earthquakes
1,000 – Nepal, flood relief
6,000 – Pakistan, flood relief
12,000 – Sri Lanka, civil violence

General: [$12,000]
6,000 – Church World Service, Community Arise Project
6,000 – Action by Churches Together, Rapid Response Fund
Somalia, floods
Burundi, floods
Indonesia, Jakarta floods
Mozambique, floods
Fiji, flash floods
Ethiopia, ethnic conflict
Afghanistan, refugee returnees
Lebanon, Palestinian refugee camp crisis
Palestine/Gaza, civil emergency
Pakistan, storms and floods
India, floods
Indonesia, volcano eruption
Colombia, floods
Indonesia, Sulawesi floods and landslides
Nepal, floods
India, West Bengal floods
Bangladesh, floods
Romania, flash floods
Jamaica, hurricane
Nicaragua, hurricane
India, Orissa cholera outbreak

Domestic: [$494,793]
250 – Alabama, fires
5,000 – Arizona, emergency water relief
23,755 – California, winter freeze and food relief
17,500 – Florida, tornadoes
500 – Georgia, tornadoes
1,000 – Iowa, floods
34,500 – Kansas, ice storms, tornadoes and floods
123,938 – Louisiana, hurricane recovery
95,050 – Mississippi, hurricane recovery
4,000 – Missouri, ice storms
1,250 – Nebraska, ice storms
5,500 – New Jersey, floods
2,500 – New Mexico, floods
5,750 – New York, floods and winter storms
1,000 – North Carolina, church fire
7,500 – Oklahoma, floods
10,000 – Ohio, floods
24,500 – Tennessee, hurricane housing project
93,800 – Texas, hurricane recovery, floods and tornadoes
1,000 – Utah, church fire
6,500 – Washington, winter floods
24,500 – U.S., CWS spring storms and tornado appeals