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Community members access water at new boreholes near United Methodist churches in the Uganda-South Sudan Conference. With the help of churches in Georgia and Florida, five boreholes were drilled in the East Africa Episcopal Area. Photos courtesy of the Rev. Isaac Kyambadde.

Boreholes bring ‘sigh of relief’ in Uganda
Churches in Georgia, Florida work with local United Methodists in East Africa Episcopal Area to provide clean water near United Methodist churches.
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Julius Caesar V. Sicat, regional director of the Philippine Department of Science and Technology, stands by an amphibious rescue vehicle prototype designed to save lives in the event of major flooding. Photo courtesy of Ryan de Lara.

United Methodist works on amphibious rescue vehicle
The new vehicle could speed up rescue and relief efforts since it will move seamlessly from land to water and back again.
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Megan Klingler, who works with the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries’ Global Health unit, and Dr. Marie Claire Manafundu, program officer of the Maternal and Child Health Program in Eastern Congo, visit with children at Irambo Hospital in Bukavu. Klingler visited six cities in the country during a three-week trip to conduct training sessions to help stop the spread of Ebola. Photo by Philippe Kituka Lolonga, UM News.

Ebola training well received in Congo
Megan Klingler with the United Methodist Board Global Ministries’ Global Health unit said she is pleased with the progress made during her three-week visit.
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Water is scarce at Chapanduka Secondary School, a United Methodist school in Buhera, Zimbabwe. Students often spend learning time standing in line to fill buckets of water from a shallow well. Photo by Kudzai Chingwe, UM News.

Challenges stack up for United Methodist school
Zimbabwe’s Chapanduka Secondary School faces water crisis, malfunctioning solar system, poor academic scores and poverty in the community.

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