BISHOP’S LENT APPEAL

St Stephen's School, Pamua, Solomon Islands:

Pamua School is desperately short of equipment and dormitory accommodation taking in students from 20 islands representing 20 language groups — teaching is in English. Pamua School situated on the island of Makira, 100 miles east of Guadalcanal, is one of two Anglican secondary boarding schools now under pressure to take students from Selwyn College, which has now closed due to the fighting between two militant groups in Guadalcanal. The School is heavily subsidised by the government, which is almost bankrupt.

Preston Close Project:

PCP started in 1999 as a community regeneration programme based in Ryde on the Isle of Wight to bring people together in an area of social problems. The PCP is managed by representatives of local schools, police, social services and the church to apply for grants to employ project and outreach workers. Funding is required towards setting up facilities for art classes for children and adults, an IOW Credit Union to combat indebtedness, parents support group, gardening project, summer holidays for children, to provide a safe-place as a residents' drop-in centre and money for the day-to-day needs of the project.