Christian Aid works on behalf of 40 Christian denominations in
the U.K. and Ireland. This well known Christian charity funds
numerous projects in the Third World to help people to improve
their own lives and to tackle the causes of poverty and injustice.
Christian Aid helps the poorest and neediest people to become
self-sufficient by:
* first of all listening to people talking about the causes of
poverty and working with them and others to improve their lives.
(To take one recent example close to home, last year in response
to calls from all over the Third World, many thousands of Christian
Aid supporters went to lobby world leaders on this matter at the
G8 summit in Birmingham. As a result, the exceptional problem
of chronic poverty caused by International debt in the Third World
is now at last being seriously addressed by influential governments).
* providing seeds and tools so that families can grow enough to
eat
* building new wells to provide safe, clean water
* paying for emergency aid in times of crisis.
Christian Aid was one of the first charities to hold a house-to-house
collection. An amazing 70,000 people volunteer each year to be
collectors. Last year Christian Aid Week raised £9.5 million
in Britain and in Eire. Each year we in Bunbury and Tilstone Fearnall
manage to contribute hundreds of pounds during the Week.
This year there is reason to have even more confidence in Christian
Aid's work: we should be encouraged to give more than ever.
D.M.B. Williamson.
Help-ers are still needed for the distribution/collection
of envelopes for the houses in the vicinity of where they live.
please contact Mrs. Joyce Buxton (Tel: 771182) for St. Boniface
and Mrs. Wyn Lloyd (Tel: 732502) or Mr. Bob Gardner (Tel: 260555
for St. Jude's). Join the rest of that very vital gang of 70,000
volunteers!