MoPSA,
St Aidans, Finch Lane,
Little Chalfont,
Bucks.
HP7 9NE.
UK
Tel:+44 (0)1494 763518
Fax: +44 (0)1494 765061
Registered Charity No. 1048926
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The Haiti Emergency Appeal is MoPSA's project for 2010. We need all the support you can offer specially with basic food items like rice, corn meal, flour, sugar beans and clear water. Home supplies like beds, bed linens, clothes, towels, etc. are also much needed. Deposit your check or supplies by calling Jane Rodgers directly at 404-248-1197 (Atlanta), all donations collected by the church are being sent to Jane. Please visit www.missionariesofthepoor.org for more methods of donation. At St. Aidan's Parish Church, the weekend after the earthquake we collected between £2,500 and £3,000 for Haiti, and the Brothers Community there. 8 brothers from Jamaica have gone over to Haiti to help with the situation in Port au Prince. The brothers who are already based in Haiti at the mission houses in Cap Haitien are using their chapel & centre as a refuge for people injured by the earthquake who have been taken there from Port au Prince. Progress on the construction of the Holy Innocents Centre for unwed mothers, young teenage mothers and children in Kingston, Jamaica is going well. In July 2007, MoPSA got hold of an abandoned building located close to downtown/inner-city Kingston. The building was derelict, thus the funds raised this year are going towards this project. A Day Care Center will be set up for about 200 children to help single mothers to keep their jobs. They do not need to forsake their jobs for the sake of caring for their toddlers or abort their child for the sake of keeping their job. Also a Womens Center will be setup as a crisis center to help teenage pregnant women or single mothers who are poor and are in a difficult situation due to pregnancy. Its aim is to defend ‘human life’ and support unwed mothers to carry their pregnancy to its natural process - to deliver the child. Counseling and medical assistence will be provided. The operation of the center will involve a great number of volunteers and professionals, who offer their services either freely or otherwise. This way the poor are not only offered hope but the working class people and the affluent class are invited to interact and assist the impoverished brothers and sisters of theirs. 
On a sunny May Bank Holiday week end much fun and fundraising was had by Parishioners and community raising a fantastic £9,142 at the Annual May Fayre. The sponsored Doddle/Run raised over £1,000 and a hugely successful Fayre enabled the parish to give £3657 to Missionaries of the Poor working with the destitute in India, Philippines, Haiti and Uganda and £1,828 to the St Francis Hospice at Berkhamsted. The week-end included the introduction of 'MoPSA the Mouse' assisting the charity in communicating the needs and work of the Missionaries of the Poor to our younger people. MoPSA is grateful to Ann Marie Cullen for her creativity in producing this material free of charge. Anyone wanting further information on MoPSA or MoPSA the mouse please contact Fr Ken Payne at St Aidan’s parish on 01494 763518 |