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Roger Cooke
- Jun 19, 2020
CMSI Completes Belfast Office Move
CMSI has moved its Belfast Office to Sir Thomas & Lady Dixon Park in South Belfast. The final move from Dargan Road was completed on 17th June and the new office is now fully operational. This move has been a long time coming. Last summer, CMSI agreed the sale of the offices in Dargan Road and identified the Lady Dixon property as a suitable location for new offices. After many months of false dawns and delays, the move was finally set to begin on 24th March. Then, on the eve
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Jenny Smyth
- Jun 19, 2020
Compassion For Children In DRC
We recently heard from Mama Mbambu, who leads the Compassion For Children In Distress programme in Butembo, North Kivu Diocese, DR Congo. Over several years, Church of Ireland link parishes have generously supported the development of facilities for the babies and children in Mama Mbambu’s care. Many of these children, abandoned or left homeless due to the ongoing insecurity, have been reunited with relatives or placed in families. However as fast as children can be found per
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Linda Abwa
- Jun 18, 2020
Responding to Covid in Nairobi
For those living in Kayole informal settlement in Nairobi, the last couple of months have been particularly tough. Closed borders make food more expensive, crop destruction by plagues of locusts make food scarce, flooding in other parts of the country makes water supply in the city even more unreliable than usual. Years of living on ‘just enough’ means there are no reserves for hundreds of families on lockdown in Kayole. The Urban Development Programme (UDP) of All Saints’ Ca
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Roger Cooke
- Jun 17, 2020
CMSI AGM Rescheduled
CMS Ireland will hold its Annual General Meeting at 2pm on Tuesday 30th June 2020. The meeting is accessible remotely via Zoom. This gathering is open to all members of CMSI ('CMSI Stars'). Invitations have been sent to all those on the current register of members. To find out more about membership of CMSI – or to sign-up as a member – please visit the membership page of the CMSI website. The AGM provides an opportunity to look back over the past year in the life of CMSI, as
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Lynn Wilson
- Jun 3, 2020
The Power Of Connection
Lynn Wilson is a CMSI volunteer who for the past few years (before lockdown) has been providing regular clerical support to the staff team in the Belfast Office. Lynn is also the CMSI parish rep for St Mark's, Dundela, which has a long-established partnership link through CMSI with the Urban Development Programme (UDP) of All Saints' Cathedral, Nairobi. Lynn writes: Last week I was blessed to be included in a conversation by Zoom, linking me in Belfast with Linda Abwa in Ball
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