{"id":17482,"date":"2021-09-23T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=17482"},"modified":"2021-09-23T20:23:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T20:23:30","slug":"disaster-grant-supports-home-rebuilding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2021\/disaster-grant-supports-home-rebuilding\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster grant supports home rebuilding by Congolese Brethren following eruption of Nyiragongo volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brethren Disaster Ministries staff have directed an additional grant of $25,000 from the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Emergency Disaster Fund (EDF) to support repair or rebuilding of 54 homes damaged in the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo. The volcano erupted near the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on May 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Previous EDF grants for this appeal include an initial grant of $5,000 on May 26 that supported Eglise des Freres au Congo (the Church of the Brethren in the DRC) in providing food relief to at-risk families, and a grant of $25,000 given on July 1 that was used for continued food aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With this grant, the Goma congregation plans to repair 23 homes damaged in the eruption and build 31 new homes to replace houses that were destroyed, providing shelter for 432 people including 240 children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To contribute financially to this work, give online at <a href=\"https:\/\/churchofthebrethren.givingfuel.com\/bdm\">https:\/\/churchofthebrethren.givingfuel.com\/bdm<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find more Church of the Brethren news:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts is-layout-flow wp-block-latest-posts-is-layout-flow\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/letter-supports-green-card-holders\/\">Office of Peacebuilding and Policy signs on to letter supporting green card holders and resettled refugees<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/carta-de-apoyo-a-los-refugiados\/\">La Oficina de Consolidaci\u00f3n de la Paz y Pol\u00edticas se suma a una carta de apoyo a los titulares de la tarjeta verde y a los refugiados reasentados.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/let-pou-sipote-moun\/\">Biwo pou Konsolidasyon Lap\u00e8 ak R\u00e8gleman siyen yon l\u00e8t pou sip\u00f2te moun ki gen kat v\u00e8t ak refijye ki reyentegre yo.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/fon-legliz-fre-yo-anonse\/\">Fon Legliz Fr\u00e8 yo anonse d\u00e8nye sibvansyon yo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/los-fondos-de-la-iglesia\/\">Los fondos de la Iglesia de los Hermanos anuncian sus \u00faltimas subvenciones.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brethren Disaster Ministries staff have directed an additional grant of $25,000 from the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Emergency Disaster Fund (EDF) to support repair or rebuilding of 54 homes damaged in the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo. The volcano erupted near the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on May 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1703],"tags":[1252,456,3,2214,1742,1743,1332,9,2103],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-17482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-bdm","tag-brethren-disaster-ministries","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-congo","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-drc","tag-edf","tag-emergency-disaster-fund","tag-volcano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17483,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17482\/revisions\/17483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17482"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=17482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}