GUILD PROJECT
This year our Guild is supporting the Lydia project. Anyone who is not a Guild member but wishes to support this project please contact Mary Cowan.
THE LYDIA PROJECT: MIRIAM - CHANGING THE WORLD TOGETHER, EASTERN EUROPE
Background
The Lydia Project empowers women to help the most hurt people of 16 East European countries, from Russia in the north to Albania in the south. |
New church and community projects are planned and advanced at gatherings/events arranged by the Lydia Project; they share best practice and create joint projects of practical work with street and HIV/AIDS children, abused and trafficked women, unemployed people, refugees from regional wars, Roma families, pensioners and orphans or youth with no future. |
The Guild’s support will enable opportunities, that will not otherwise happen, for women to develop new partnerships; with each other and other deprived groups. Mutual encouragement, learning and inspiration, sometimes between women of countries that have been enemies, strengthens the ability to establish new work (after decades of state control) with people who were devastated by radical social and economic change.