Education Grant for Uganda

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) office in Uganda has received a total of $2.4 million in grants from the Danish International Development Agency to implement a rural education project in Karamoja, Uganda. The Karamoja Integrated Rural Education Project (KITENEP) started in October 2002 and is the first of its kind in the region. The three-year project will renovate eight primary schools, construct one dormitory, 36 houses for teachers and staff, nine rain water systems, four demonstration gardens, three community centers, and 200 adult learning centers. In addition, 200 teachers will receive training.

Kettering to Receive Grant

Frank Perez, president and CEO of Kettering Adventist HealthCare, reports the organization has been awarded a $900,000 Healthy Hearts grant from the Tobacco Education Fund. “This grant will enable us to expand our mission to help people in our community quit this dreadful habit,” Perez says.

Missions Champion Dies

Edmund M. “Uncle Ed” Peterson died June 3 at the age of 82. A retired minister in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, he spent most of his career in Youth Ministries, and he also worked for several years at the Review and Herald Publishing Association.  Peterson was active in supporting missions projects and helped launch the Student Missionary program at Sligo Seventh-day Adventist Church in Takoma Park, Maryland.