Current Projects
Together in Hope has currently identified and selected projects in El Salvador, Africa, Philippines, and Hawaii for relational partnering and funding. These projects are described briefly below. Other projects are also under consideration.
EL SALVADOR
El Mozote
This project has been fully funded.
On December 11, 1981, all but one woman of the entire civilian population present in the village of El Mozote in Morazan Department, El Salvador was massacred by Salvadorian government troops, including more than 130 children. Relatives and others from the surrounding community have erected a memorial to those murdered in the massacre and painted a wall mural of hope with colorful plaques for each of the children who lost their lives. When Director Diane McGehee visited El Mozote in March 2008, she discovered that funds were needed to complete the plaques so that each child had a plaque. Together in Hope has funded the remaining plaques.
Base Christian Communities
Click here to set the El Salvador/Together in Hope Project as your home page and earn money for this projectAs a result of Director Diane McGehee’s visit to El Salvador in March, 2008, Together in Hope is in conversation with base Christian communities in El Salvador to design and fund holistic community development projects. Details for particular projects will be posted as they are finalized.
AFRICA
Uganda
In partnership with Emmanuel Katongole, a Ugandan Catholic priest, Together in Hope is raising funds to support Bethany House on Lake Victoria in Entebbe, Uganda. Bethany House is a place of hospitality where a Christian vision of peace and reconciliation is fostered through pilgrimage, rest and reflection. Emmanuel Katongole serves congregations in North Carolina, as a professor of theology and world Christianity at the Duke Divinity School, and as the co-director of the Duke Center for Reconciliation. From these various aspects and locations of his work, Dr. Katongole brings people from around the world to Africa, to experience her gifts and challenges; the joys and aspirations of her people, and their pains and struggles. He calls on people to listen and understand Africa’s true story and invites them to ‘come and see’ Africa, fully knowing that those who do so, will be set on a journey (literally) that has potential for deep transformation in both their own lives and the lives of their African brothers and sisters. Bethany House provides a retreat facility for that work.
Cote d’Ivoire
Malaria Kills more than one million children every year. The spread of Malaria can be prevented with the use of treated mosquito nets. Together in Hope is raising funds to support the efforts of the Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church to purchase these nets for the people of Cote d’Ivoire.
THE PHILIPPINES
Manila
Together in Hope is raising scholarship funds for the Harris Memorial College, an educational institution committed to providing quality education to students who might not otherwise have an opportunity to attend college. The college offers both a deaconess track for young women and a non-deaconess track for men and women seeking Bachelor of Kindergarten Education, Bachelor of Secondary Education, and Bachelor in Elementary Education degrees. In addition, the College has a Center for Community Development (Outreach Program), the Center for Christian Education and Discipleship, and the Doris Lou Willis Center for Early Childhood Education.
HAWAII
Together in Hope is working to support a women's clinic. Details will be supplied when everything is finalized.
