Christian Aid Week 2011 runs from 15th – 21st May.
Local volunteers will be dropping an evelope through your door any day now to enable you to make a donation to Christian Aid. They will then collect it later the same week.
So what is Christian Aid all about?
- Christian Aid is a Christian organisation that insists the world can and must be swiftly changed to one where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty
- They take a three-pronged approach to ending poverty: funding long-term development work, responding to emergencies and challenging the unjust systems that make and keep people poor.
- Christian Aid is the official development agency of 41 Church denominations in Britain & Ireland
- They help people of all faiths and none.
- They believe in giving people the power to find their own solutions to poverty.
- Christian Aid works through local organisations in 45 countries.
- They focus their money and energy where they will have the greatest effect – for example, by challenging people in power to tackle issues that have a big impact on poor communities, such as climate change, corporate tax dodging and international trade rules.
- They never give money to Governments. They work directly with local organisations on the ground.
- They spend their money wisely. For each £1 given in 2009/10, 83p was used for direct charitable expenditure. The rest went on fundraising, which is essential to keep the programmes running, and ‘governance’ – helping them keep Christian Aid operational and to manage the charity effeciently. They spend 16p in every £1 to raise the next £1
To find out more abotu Christian Aid, you can visit their website: www.christianaid.org.uk or by calling 020 7523 2225
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