China and the Road to Tubida
In the Sichuan Province of China sits the village of Tubida. Through ELCA companion relationships, your gifts to ELCA World Hunger are supporting Luzhou Church and its comprehensive sustainable development ministries in the community.
Your gifts brought a well to the Tubida community—a well that now provides safe drinking water to people who once walked long distances and spent countless hours hauling water. The well tube goes down 60 feet where water is pumped up with a 300-watt pump and piped into nearby homes. There is plenty of water for the local rice fields.
Your gifts paved a road (photo on right) into this community, which was previously cut off from nearby areas relative to economic opportunity. This road allows local residents to ship out their crop of lychees (fruit) and rice. Not far from Tubida, the local government built a conference center. The new road gives access to the center. This arrangement helps bring more income into the village.
ELCA Disaster Response in China
ELCA Global Mission personnel worked with Chinese church bodies in the Sichuan province to develop a four-year recovery plan after the May 2008 earthquake. Initial disaster response efforts focused on helping people with disabilities and orphaned children access shelter, health care, and relief supplies. Ongoing support from
ELCA Global Mission will help Chinese churches rebuild and respond to increased interest in worship services.
[Photos by Franklin Ishida, ELCA Global Mission]