It is very easy to think that the only thing happening in the world at the minute is Covid-19- it’s all you hear about in the News. But there are other things that affect many people’s lives – climate change, poverty, difficulty accessing clean water/ safe sanitation/ education/ health care, warfare, prejudice/ discrimination/ hatred of […]

Christian Aid Week Reflect: In the Sabbath we find a radical alternative to the current economic thirst for more. It emphasises the need for restoration for people and the Earth, Rosalia understands the need to restore the land. She has planted 120 trees. ‘Now that we have a waterpoint nearby, even children can come and

Christian Aid Scotland Christian Aid Week 2020 Reflect: A vast array of creatures, including human beings, share a home on planet Earth. In the stories from Kenya we see families and their livestock thriving when there is plentiful water. Donkeys have strength to carry water. Goats and cows provide milk for breakfast, helping children to

Reflect: ‘Rain is God’s wish, so we are expecting it. If it rains we will celebrate. We will dance. The people, the livestock, even the birds become happy. All creatures celebrate. ’Take a moment to consider how your wellbeing is intertwined with creation and with all those you may never meet. Respond: Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Reflect: The prophets of the Old Testament stepped back and took a long view of things, and we must raise our prophetic voices as they did. Global heating threatens to undo the last 50 years of progress in development, global health and poverty reduction. It could push more than 120million people into poverty by 2030

Christian Aid Scotland Week Reflect: Florence lives in Kyeng’e village, in a dry part of Kitui county in Kenya. Her community built a dam with help from Christian Aid’s partner, Anglican Development Services – Eastern. The water in the dam is helping her to change her life. ‘I have been sustained by the earth dam.

Christian Aid Week Reflect: In Kenya people pray for rain. Rose has to walk 8km to collect water with her donkey. She says, ‘Fetching water takes me six hours because I am old and can’t walk very fast. The drought had been severe. We are suffering.’ Rose is living with HIV and struggles to eat