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World News This Week In Prayer - Thurs., Nov. 11, 2010

Thou who knit together the bones of all the worlds that are, and ever will be;
Thou who stitched Thy glory in the heavens, and into our souls;
Thou whose only desire is that all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well:
  Share our rejoicings,
  Hear our longings,
  Heal our world.

In Tanzania, a small but growing number of Maasai herders are finding that keeping camels instead of cattle allows them to not only survive but thrive economically during conditions of extreme drought. World Challenge, a global competition aimed at finding projects or small businesses from around the world that have shown enterprise and innovation at a grassroots level, has announced its 12 2010 finalists - among them:

-The Jompy Stove, a lightweight and inexpensive stove-top device that sits between a cooking pot and open flame to rapidly heat and decontaminate drinking water while a meal is being cooked (now being distributed in Kenya)
-Ecotourism projects designed to also save coral reefs
-A growing industry in bamboo bicycle frames, that's creating profitable small businesses in Zambia and three other African countries
-A project to use recycled waste materials to build a school in Guatemala
-Introduction of a pump that pushes water uphill without any source of power other than the river itself into 170 poor upland villages in the Philippines
-Use of rice husks (which would otherwise be discarded) in mini-power stations serving some 50,000 villagers in the state of Bihar, India
-The Full Belly Project, which started with the 2002 invention of the Universal Nut Sheller, which is changing lives of peanut growers in Mali and throughout Africa
-And, oh, well, way too much for us to describe here. Go to www.theworldchallenge.co.uk to read about the rest for yourself!

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