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UMCOR News

For You Yourselves Were Once Aliens:

On World Refugee Day, a group of youth and adults in the Western New York Annual Conference gathered to learn more about what it means to be uprooted and displaced.

Grant Provides for Expansion at Kissy United Methodist Hospital:

Kissy United Methodist Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, will now be able to double the capacity of the Maternal and Child Health unit through a recent grant awarded to the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).

The Story of Christine and Her Son Stephen:

Christine, aged 13 years is a maiden who was forced by her parents to marry early as tradition requires here.

UMCOR Supports the Displaced in Myanmar:

Since 2006, the number of people seeking refuge at the Ee Htu Hta camp in the eastern part of Myanmar, also known as Burma, has grown from 600 to nearly 4,200.

A Mission Intern and Sojourner: From North Carolina to South Africa to New York:

Ms. Brooks returned to the United Methodist University not to pick up her dorm-room keys but to give the keynote address for "Mission Awareness Week."

UMCOR Selected to Lead Case Management Training:

The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) will train as many as 600 case managers to work with families in Texas whose lives were uprooted as a result of Hurricane Ike in September 2008.

UMCOR and Equal Exchange Celebrate United Methodist “Tons” of Fair Trade Support:

The United Methodist Committee on Relief and its partner Equal Exchange, a worker-owned co-operative dedicated to fair trade, celebrate the efforts of United Methodists everywhere who participated in UMCOR’s 100-Ton Challenge.

UMCOR West Opens in Utah:

United Methodists from throughout the Western Jurisdiction gathered on Saturday for the grand opening of UMCOR West office and depot. The new facility stores United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) supply kits and offers new opportunities for kit ministry.