This is an area where civil war has been a part of life for many people for some years. So many have lost everything and are slowly beginning to build for the future. The churches are part of this rebuilding.
Institutions face enormous difficulty in bringing projects to fruition.
A grant was made by SPCK in 1999 to help the Youth Department of the Anglican Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo to produce Sunday School teachers' books and picture books. Much of the material the Church already had was lost or destroyed during the war, when people had to flee their homes. We hear from the project holders that the publication had to be put on hold with the office closed as the fighting went on around them. But they have managed to complete part of the printing with a great deal of voluntary help. This year we are able to provide English and French books for clergy in the Anglican Church in Angola to help them to minister in their communities, most of whom are displaced people.