English: Thank you, Cabinet Secretary, for your statement. I'm very pleased to be able to respond on behalf of our group, and extend our continuing support for the Wales for Africa programme and the excellent work that it is doing in making connections between the people of Wales and the people of sub-Saharan Africa. The Cabinet Secretary will know I visited South Africa a couple of years ago - in fact, on two occasions in the past few years - and I've seen some of the excellent work that is being done as a result of the support of the people of Wales in that particular country, and indeed, heard a lot more about the more extensive work that is going on in the southern Africa region. I'm sure that you will join with me in congratulating the work of faith groups in particular that have been involved with those particular projects. The diocese of St Asaph, of course, has a link with south-west Tanganyika where they've got civic links that have been developed, supporting subsistence projects, improving the water supplies and, indeed, helping to train teachers in that particular area. And indeed, an organisation called Preferred Future, which raises money here in Wales amongst different individual churches, is helping to deliver projects right across South Africa and beyond in places like Lesotho, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi and many other nations, very often working with underprivileged children, helping to provide them with education and, indeed, helping to educate them in terms of the health risks that there are in some of those very needy communities, particularly those where HIV is very prevalent indeed. If it wasn't for the support of the different faith groups and church groups in particular in Wales for those projects, many of them would simply not be happening. I wonder, Cabinet Secretary, if you can tell me what work the Welsh Government is doing to try to establish links with the Welsh diaspora in some of these nations to harness the opportunities that they might have to bring something extra, if you like, in terms of their skills to be brought to bear in helping to support some of the Wales for Africa programme. One of the highlights, I suppose, of the last visit I made to South Africa was a meeting with the Cape Welsh Society at the High Commissioner's residence, where there are people who have many talents. Very often, they've retired to South Africa and want to still volunteer in some capacity. I know that we've got lots of people travelling from Wales to sub-Saharan Africa to support some of the projects that you've referred to in Uganda and that I've referred to in other places, but the individuals who are permanently on the ground there, but have origins in Wales, also have something to offer. I wonder if you could just comment on whether that is a group of people that you are particularly looking at trying to engage with. Secondly, I'm sure that you're aware of the tremendous link that's been established through the Betsi Cadwaladr university health board on maternal health issues in the Lesotho area, where they've managed to decrease the rate of child mortality - you mentioned some of the maternal mortality figures in Uganda earlier on. You'll also be aware that similar achievements - in fact, more impressive achievements - have been realised in Lesotho as a result of the work of clinicians from Wales and nursing staff from Wales who've been travelling out over a number of years now, into Lesotho, and helping to drive improvements in health outcomes for people in that particular nation.
Welsh: Diolch, Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet, am eich datganiad. Rwy'n falch iawn o allu ymateb ar ran ein grŵp, ac ymestyn ein cefnogaeth barhaus i raglen Cymru o Blaid Affrica a'r gwaith rhagorol y mae'n ei wneud i greu cysylltiadau rhwng pobl Cymru a phobl Affrica Is-Sahara. Bydd Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet yn gwybod fy mod wedi ymweld â De Affrica flwyddyn neu ddwy yn ôl - mewn gwirionedd, ar ddau achlysur yn ystod yr ychydig flynyddoedd diwethaf - ac rwyf wedi gweld rhywfaint o'r gwaith ardderchog sy'n cael ei wneud o ganlyniad i gefnogaeth pobl Cymru yn y wlad benodol honno, ac yn wir, wedi clywed llawer mwy am y gwaith mwy helaeth sy'n digwydd yn rhanbarth de Affrica. Rwy'n siŵr y gwnewch chi ymuno â mi i longyfarch gwaith grwpiau ffydd yn arbennig sydd wedi bod yn ymwneud â'r prosiectau penodol hynny. Mae gan esgobaeth Llanelwy, wrth gwrs, gysylltiad â de-orllewin Tanganyika lle mae wedi datblygu cysylltiadau dinesig i gefnogi prosiectau cynhaliaeth, gwella'r cyflenwadau dŵr ac, yn wir, helpu i hyfforddi athrawon yn yr ardal benodol honno. Ac yn wir, mae sefydliad o'r enw Dyfodol a Ffefrir, sy'n codi arian yma yng Nghymru ymysg gwahanol eglwysi unigol, yn helpu i gyflawni prosiectau ledled De Affrica a thu hwnt mewn lleoedd fel Lesotho, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi a llawer o wledydd eraill, gan weithio'n aml iawn gyda phlant difreintiedig, a helpu i roi addysg iddynt ac, yn wir, helpu i'w haddysgu am y risgiau iechyd sy'n bodoli mewn rhai o'r cymunedau anghenus iawn hynny, yn enwedig y rhai lle mae HIV yn gyffredin iawn yn wir. Oni bai am gefnogaeth y gwahanol grwpiau ffydd a grwpiau eglwysi yn enwedig yng Nghymru i'r prosiectau hynny, yn syml, ni fyddai llawer ohonynt yn digwydd. Tybed, Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet, a allwch chi ddweud wrthyf pa waith y mae Llywodraeth Cymru'n ei wneud i geisio sefydlu cysylltiadau â'r Cymry ar wasgar yn rhai o'r cenhedloedd hyn i harneisio'r cyfleoedd a allai fod ganddynt i ddod â rhywbeth ychwanegol, os mynnwch chi, o ran defnyddio eu sgiliau i helpu i gefnogi rhywfaint o'r rhaglen Cymru o Blaid Affrica. Un o uchafbwyntiau, mae'n debyg, yr ymweliad diwethaf imi ei wneud â De Affrica oedd cyfarfod â Chymdeithas Gymraeg Cape ym mhreswylfa'r Uchel Gomisiynydd, lle y ceir pobl sydd â llawer o dalentau. Yn aml iawn, maent wedi ymddeol i Dde Affrica ac eisiau dal i wirfoddoli mewn rhyw ffordd neu'i gilydd. Rwy'n gwybod bod gennym lawer o bobl yn teithio o Gymru i Affrica Is-Sahara i gefnogi rhai o'r prosiectau yr ydych chi wedi cyfeirio atynt yn Uganda ac rwyf innau wedi cyfeirio atynt mewn mannau eraill, ond mae gan yr unigolion sy'n barhaol ar lawr gwlad yno, ond sy'n dod o Gymru, hefyd rywbeth i'w gynnig. Tybed a allwch chi wneud sylw ynglŷn ag a yw hwnnw'n grŵp o bobl yr ydych yn ceisio ymgysylltu ag ef yn benodol. Yn ail, rwy'n siŵr eich bod yn ymwybodol o'r cysylltiad gwych sydd wedi ei sefydlu drwy fwrdd iechyd prifysgol Betsi Cadwaladr ar faterion iechyd mamolaeth yn ardal Lesotho, lle maent wedi llwyddo i ostwng cyfradd marwolaethau plant - soniasoch am rai o ffigurau marwolaethau mamolaeth yn Uganda yn gynharach. Byddwch hefyd yn ymwybodol bod llwyddiannau tebyg - yn wir, llwyddiannau mwy trawiadol - wedi eu gwireddu yn Lesotho yn sgil gwaith clinigwyr o Gymru a staff nyrsio o Gymru sydd wedi bod yn teithio yno dros nifer o flynyddoedd bellach, i mewn i Lesotho, gan helpu i ysgogi gwell canlyniadau iechyd i bobl yn y wlad benodol honno.