Resources

The main IHA-UDP site contains content which is designed for schools, academics, and supporters. The Project operates 52 separate programmes under three main headings - Primary Healthcare, Physical Upgrading, and Community Development. The aim is to meet the needs of the whole person in an integrated way - and lift people out of the mindset of poverty.The key philosophy is a 'bottom-up' approach which responds to the needs expressed by the local people. Nothing is done without consultation of the community. This means people take ownership of the work. The Project has a unique 'integrated holistic approach' so that all kinds of needs are cared for - from health to housing, and education to employment.

Members of Glenfall church have been out to the project half a dozen times in the last ten years. In addition to making a couple of videos to raise money, they have donated a minibus, provided materials for several concrete-block houses, provided a special hose-pipe for clearing blocked drains, sent/taken-out medical and other supplies, jointly sponsored an international conference on how churches can serve the urban poor, sponsored research into waste recycling and charcoal production, published and distributed a booklet of Bible reflections, administered a regular newsletter for more than 200 of the project's Christian supporters, and organised several annual conferences held in Oxford.

For Comic Relief's Red Nose Day 2003, Andy Kershaw went on the road in Ethiopia. He visited some of the Comic Relief-sponsored projects in Addis Ababa, including Street Symphony, which offers food, shelter and music coaching to homeless children.