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Formation training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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In line with the Mission Statement, IMBISA Refugee Service promotes the formation of and develops training programmes for pastoral agents
(Missionaries in the ministry with uprooted people). In this regard, it organizes Formation Workshops that include missionaries with uprooted people. The following topics are some that are included in the curriculum for the
training programme Advocacy and protection issues; Peace building and tolerance building; Reconciliation and Capacity Building; Human Rights Education; Legal issues including international refugees Law;
Pastoral care in the Ministry with uprooted people; Citizen's participation and leadership; Trauma and healing awareness. |
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IMBISA Refugee Service Handbook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Considering the magnitude of the problems that are being experienced by the people who are in the ministry with uprooted people, IMBISA Refugee Service is producing a Handbook for Pastoral Workers in the Ministry with Uprooted People. The production of the manual, which is in process and it will be used particularly in Angola where currently there is a great need as well as within the region and elsewhere. |
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Advocacy and Networking |
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IMBISA Refugee Service organizes Annual Regional Conferences that include the uprooted people themselves so as to listen and discuss their
concerns and plan a way forward to advocate and empower them. They are usually held in May and the venue rotates in the countries in the region. IMBISA Refugee Service participates at the regional and international
conferences that are organized by the Pontifical Council in the pastoral care of migrants and itinerant people. These meetings are designed to strategize our way forward at all levels in the Church. Apart from the
above, IMBISA Refugee Service participated at the Canadian Refugee Council on gender-based persecution and the empowerment of women. At this meeting, refugee women were included to discuss their problems and concerns and to plan a
way forward. IMBISA Refugee Service is a member of PARinAC (Partners in Action), which is a forum for the government, UNHCR and all NGOs working with refugees. It is during its meeting that decisions are made that
help to protect, advocate and empower refugees in their own right. With regard to pastoral care, IMBISA Refugee Service is a member of the Southern Africa Churches in the Ministry with uprooted people. Sharing
information and decisions concerning pastoral care of the uprooted people are made through meetings, e-mail, telephone, faxes and workshops to strategize our way forward. |
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Projects/Fund raising |
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We are non-profit making Church organizations that depend entirely on donations and charities from whose hearts are open for those who are socially, economically and politically disadvantaged. As a result, project proposals and appeals for financial assistance from donors and generous people are sent special projects, formation training and emergency relief programmes. Special projects include Pastoral Agents without Borders Project (PAWB) in emergency situations like the current situation in Angola. Formation programmes that provide skills to Church personnel (missionaries) in this ministry with uprooted people due to both natural and human made disasters are organized for English and Portuguese speaking countries. |
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Challenges |
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As IMBISA depends entirely on donations and charities it lacks material and financial resources to respond to the needs of the uprooted people immediately in the tune of emergencies. What can you and your communities do? |
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Material Contributions |
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Donations like clothes, food, blankets, medicines, agricultural kits, i.e. seeds and tools, shelter, religious material like Bibles, Rosaries, books, etc. |
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Financial Contributions |
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Please give in cash gifts, either in cash deposits, cheques, pledges, scholarships, donations for shelter, health, education, rehabilitation and reconstruction programmes etc. |
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Where Are They? |
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Approximately 4 million IDPs in Angola and 450 000 returnees from neighboring countries waiting to return to their country. There are also refugees from Democratic Republic of Congo in Angola waiting to go back to their home country early next year 2003. Apart from this emergency, there are emergencies within the Southern Africa region waiting emergency intervention from IMBISA Refugee Service within the region. |
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Where Can The Donations Be Sent |
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IMBISA Refugee Service Contact Person
Sr. Stella Takaza (Coordinator) Financial contributions MISSIO Prokuur Account number Rekening 270 IMBISA |
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extremely vulnerable groups that are affected by both natural and human made disasters. During their flight the uprooted
people endure extremely hard conditions and as result they become tired, sick, malnourished, loose their dignity, spiritual welfare educational opportunities and
family disintegration. When they flee they loose all their property and food and would need emergency intervention response. IMBISA Refugee Service has the mandate to ensure that the most vulnerable groups
through their local Church Agencies are access to support in the form of food and non-food items for them to resume their lives and attain self-sufficiency faster to restore their dignity.