The Bishop's Lent Appeal

Anglican Institute of Technology.

The Joint Anglican Diocesan Council of Ghana is establishing a university for science and technology students, who have limited course options in Ghana. The AIT will be open to all faiths, but will have an Anglican ethos and be an opportunity for mission. The first campus site has been donated by the Ghana government and is close to Kumasi. Existing buildings there can be adapted. This ambitious project has the support of all the Bishops in Ghana. The initial target is £300,000 and the plan is to admit students in the 2007/8 academic year. All Anglican parishes in Ghana are being asked to contribute but the project's success will rely on financial support from friends overseas.

ECG Machine for Haematology Unit, QA Hospital, Portsmouth.

The Haematology Unit at the Queen Alexandra Hospital is where most of my treatment has taken place for Leukaemia. It is a first class Unit, not only for the quality of the care given but for the way in which families are given access to patients and are involved in the processes of treatment. A major gap in the equipment needed for this care is an E.C.G. machine, to examine the mechanisms of the heart. At present they have to share with another ward – hardly an ideal situation when one considers the sometimes rapid needs of a particular patient.