Christian Aid
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Christian Aid is an agency of the major Christian churches in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It works with local partner organisations in over 60 countries around the world to help the world's poorest communities. Christian Aid works where the need is greatest, regardless of religion or race.
Christian Aid campaigns to change the rules and systems that keep people poor, speaking out on issues such as trade justice and Third World debt. It is a major member of the Trade Justice Movement and Make Poverty History campaigns.
Christian Aid also organises the UK's largest door to door collection, Christian Aid Week, which happens in the second week of May each year. The money raised makes up around 20% of the charity's total income.
[edit] History
Christian Aid started in 1945, and was originally known as Christian Reconciliation in Europe, as it was initially concerned with issues of post-World War Two welfare. It became part of British Council of Churches (now Churches Together in Britain and Ireland) in 1949, and changed its name to Christian Aid in 1964. [1]
Since the reorganisation of the Council of Churches in 1991, Christian Aid has been a separate legal entity, but remains in close relationship with it.
Since its inception Christian Aid has worked on long term development projects where the need is greatest, co-operating with partner-organisations in sixty of the World's poorest countries.
Christian Aid's essential belief is summed up in the statement `We believe in life before death' now part of the Christian Aid logo.
[edit] External links
- Main Christian Aid Web Site
- Pressureworks campaigning and advocacy site
- Global Gang kids site
- Surefish ISP and Online Community
- Present Aid Present Aid
- LifeSwitch LifeSwitch
- Disaster Watch Disaster awareness game
- Christian Aid Television
- [2] charity
