The Impact of a Successful Fundraising Campaign
Thanks to generous donors, we have exceeded our 2024 goal of raising $15,000 to support vital health and education services for children in West Africa!
Over $20,000 has been raised!
Our 2024 African Mission fundraising campaign has been very successful and we are so grateful to have exceeded our original fundraising goal. As of early December, we received $23,090 in donations!
As a united community, we have come together to champion priority mission projects undertaken with our partners in Ghana, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Together, we have reaffirmed our commitment to helping build brighter futures for vulnerable children through vital health and education services.
Your donations ensure that we can continue providing educational resources, health services, clean water, and essential nutrition programs where they are most needed.
With the support of your generous donations and by working with local partners in West Africa, we collaborate on a range of projects addressing shared priorities to tackle immediate challenges and help usher in lasting change.
A sampling of projects with positive outcomes supported by your donations in 2024 include:
Deepening our Partnerships:
- Support for Westminster’s team, which attended the international Ghana Mission Network Meeting in Tema, Ghana. The team also had the opportunity to meet in person with our three local mission partners and traveled to visit two project sites.
- Partnering with The Home of Care and Protection (HOCAP) to help victims of devastating flooding in Ghana as they rebuild their lives and livelihoods – with a special focus on supporting youth through a new vocational training center.
- Establishing a new relationship with the Karbodeh School in Sierra Leone – an emerging secondary school in a very underserved region. The initial focus was on supporting the school’s start-up by providing much-needed equipment (printer, ink cartridges, generator, solar energy panel) required to provide educational materials for students. Future support is envisioned.
Providing Medical Care & Supplies:
- Completion and ribbon-cutting opening of the Mama Alice Health Clinic in Nyitawuta, Ghana – an isolated, underserved rural community. Durable medical equipment was also provided, along with donated medical supplies.
- Supporting a part-time Registered Nurse at the Kingdom Embassy School in rural Liberia for “sick call” visits and health education.
Enhancing Education:
- Establishing and supplying two computer lab classrooms to foster computer literacy is a key to future success for students in Ghana.
- Providing education scholarships for needy students
Supporting the Nutritional Needs of Children: Organizing a regular feeding program in Liberia, offering free meals to dozens of preschoolers and kindergarten-aged children
Partnering to Support Independence: Continued the very successful interest-free microloan program for villagers in Liberia who lack access to conventional support like bank loans. Most borrowers use funds for their small businesses to earn enough for school tuition, medicine, and general family support.
We look forward to our continued work with mission partners in Ghana, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Your interest and support mean the world to those delivering and receiving these services and resources, and there is still much important work to be accomplished.
Donations are always gratefully accepted.
Your generous support is needed now and throughout the year. Whether we are getting ready for an African Family Night or working with our partners throughout the year, contributions are always most gratefully accepted online at any time (wpcalbany.org/give) or by sending your check to Westminster Presbyterian Church, 85 Chestnut St., Albany, NY 12210 (“African Mission” on the memo line).
Please stay tuned for these 2024 highlights!
Two additional blogs to feature highlights of 2024 will be posted soon on the blog page of our website: learn more about the Westminster mission travel team’s visit to Ghana and read travel team member Shernette Grant’s inspirational sharing of her experience visiting Lahuenya – a village devastated by flooding where residents are working to rebuild their lives.
Please help us keep you up-to-date by making sure we have your most current and preferred email address by notifying the Church Office at office@wpcalbany.org or calling 518-436-8544.
Join us in our continued work of “Transforming the lives of children in Ghana, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.”
