Prayer requests
From The Collaboratory
- Mali Water Project
- That they will recruit the right people, grow to understand the project, work productively this semester, and that the team will be effective in Mali.
- Fiscal Sustainability
- For a strong relationship with the business office and the development office to allow a productive working relationship.
- For a strengthened relationship with our donors, friends, and prayer partners.
- Pray that the wiki will grow into an effective and useful tool to further our work.
- Pray for our individual clients all around the world.
- Pray for our personal projects and any hold ups and problems with them.
- Microenterprise group
- For God to ordain the contacts and the projects that we should work on and work with to best match our skills His plan.
- Pray for:
- Zimbabwe's government is launching a five-year plan to fight HIV/AIDS in agriculture after realizing the impact of the pandemic on farming. The initiative, 'Zimbabwe Agricultural Sector Strategy on HIV and AIDS' is seeking to mobilize financial and human resources to halt the spread of the disease on farms, reduce stigma against people living with HIV/AIDS, fight gender inequality and domestic violence, and facilitate treatment for infected people. The Ministry of Agriculture and its departments, and commercial farms have experienced an increase in the absences of staff due to illness, attendance of funerals and the need to care for the sick. There has been a "decline in crop varieties, and changes in cropping patterns, as high labor-demanding cash crops may be abandoned", with farmers being forced to sell cattle and donkeys used for drought power to meet care and treatment expenses for HIV/AIDS.
- Praise God for:
- The United States signed an agreement November 13 with the President of Mali to provide $461 million over five years to fund three sustainable development projects in the West African democratic nation. The compact will fund job-creating infrastructure and managerial improvements to the international airport of Mali's capital, Bamako. This will lead to new economic benefits by stimulating tourism and allowing more efficient handling of Mali's goods for export. The funding also will be used to help create an industrial park near the airport that will process the country's agricultural products for export and to develop an irrigation system that will help boost farm production on 16,000 hectares of land.
- Family and friends of Ray Diener
