MISSION NEWS
ReVive continues key care work The ReVive safe house in Olinda, Brazil, has been deemed an essential service, taking care of girls at risk. And even in lockdown, they are still able to work to get girls into families. Only “essential staff” – the educators, technical team and management who are looking after the girls – are allowed to go to the
house. Mission partners Andy and Rose Roberts, who founded and lead ReVive, report that they are able to do most of their work from home or online. They explain, “We’ve managed to create a work pattern which minimises the time our staff work, to help the staff stay at home as much as possible. Staff members in the risk categories have been told to stay at home with full pay, as have our service providers (judo, ballet, etc.).”
In ReVive’s wider work, they add, “One of our oldest girls is about to return to her family and our youngest is about to start the adoption process.”
Protecting medics and livelihoods
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Court victory for indigenous communities in Argentina Indigenous communities numbering over 10,000 people in northern Argentina have won a landmark human rights battle. The InterAmerican Court of Human Rights has ruled that Argentina violated the group’s rights and ordered specific measures of reparation, including actions for access to adequate food and water, for the recovery of forest resources and indigenous culture, ending a case which began over 50
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Neema Crafts, led by mission partners Ben and Katy Ray in Iringa, Tanzania, have switched from crafts to making PPE for local medical workers. The Neema Crafts Centre, staffed exclusively by men and women with disabilities, closed its cafe and halted production in its workshops at the beginning of April, because of the impact Covid-19 could have in Tanzania. The team is now producing 800 masks, 120 face shields and 50 gowns per week from the safety of their own homes. The aim is to help protect the lives of front-line workers against Covid-19 as well as support the livelihoods of people with disabilities. Ben and Katy said: “We are proud of how the team at Neema Crafts have risen to the challenge of producing PPE.”
years ago. Mission partner Nick Drayson, Bishop of Northern Argentina, said: “Having worked for many years in northern Argentina, I am thrilled that this quiet, ongoing Land rights landmark: sta nding with indigenous struggle for recognition peoples in northern Argent ina has borne fruit of the rights of the original peoples to live without interference in these ancestral lands has finally Throughout its history CMS/ borne fruit.” SAMS has stood with the indigenous Paul Tester, CMS mission peoples of Latin America as they have development manager for Latin struggled to retain their land and America, added: “CMS and SAMS’s ways of life without interference from mission work in Latin America began outside.” with the indigenous peoples.
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