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Mosquito nets

Tom Jennings
8 Posts
0 Votes 0 Replies 39 Views
Posted 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Does anyone know of any manufacturers that produce reasonably priced mosquito nets? In particular, I would prefer a company that makes a net that is treated with an insecticide that will kill off the insects, but is not harmful to humans and preferably has been approved by the World

Disasters in Brazil

Tom Jennings
8 Posts
0 Votes 3 Replies 75 Views
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago, updated 1 month, 1 week ago
Friends, I received two emails from Margaretha Adiwardana ( meiske@terra.com.br ), our IDR partner in Brazil (please see excerpts below). Any help and support that anyone can provided will be much appreciated: We are really overloaded now with things to do, it is like two disasters at the same ...

Chile Earthquake 2010

Brad
9 Posts
0 Votes 0 Replies 50 Views
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
I'm posting this request from ACCI to see if anyone is moving relief goods into Chile that can assist them (see below). If so, please contact John Haley directly by Email (at bottom of post). We (ACCI) have a missionary family in Chile, in the Santiago area. They have

Great Websites for People Groups

Kay Hiramine
62 Posts
1 Vote 1 Reply 160 Views
Posted 9 months ago, updated 8 months, 3 weeks ago
I am attending a meeting today in Southern California talking about strategies to work in different countries. One topic discussed was looking at the different people groups in countries around the world. Here are some valuable sites for you to look at if you are interested in people

Generations of Virtue *New Website*

Sara Raley
3 Posts
2 Votes 2 Replies 166 Views
Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago, updated 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Generations of Virtue is excited to announce our new website launched just a few moments ago. Please visit our site and see the myriad of ways that we could assist with training in purity, virtue and abstinence around the world. www.generationsofvirtue.org

Connecting Businesspeople with Business Opportunities

Randy Valentine
15 Posts
3 Votes 9 Replies 240 Views
Posted 11 months ago, updated 10 months, 3 weeks ago
One of the things I'm tasked with at HISG is to connect business professionals with opportunities in our priority countries ... sustainable, holistic business opportunities. Tell me about your experiences -- either as a person giving assistance or as a person receiving assistance -- in this arena? In other words,