Video footage of Christian Aid's overseas partners explaining why tax is vital to ending extreme poverty and how they are engaging with the tax campaign in 2010
Christian Aid's ACT Alliance partner, Diakonie, has airlifted mobile health clinics and supplies to Jacmel (road access impossible) and is now providing medical care. This film shows supplies being loaded into a helicopter at Port-au-Prince airport. Jacmel, on Haiti's southern coast, has a population of about 40,000 + is one of the towns identified by the government as priority areas for medical care.
Christian Aid's local partner Garr carries out a weekly food distribution in Port-au-Prince. The ration includes 25 kilos of rice, a gallon of oil, six dried fish and five pounds of beans. The local community is fully involved in plannning these distributions, helping to identify those families most in need. Until these distributions started, most people had been sharing what little they had with neighbours. These distributions are funded by our emergency appeal. Thank you.
Christian Aid's ACT Alliance partner, Diakonie, has airlifted mobile health clinics to Jacmel (road access impossible) and is now providing medical care. This film shows the unloading of bottled water and medical supplies. Jacmel, on Haiti's southern coast, has a population of about 40,000 + is one of the towns identified by the government as priority areas for medical care. Christian Aid's local partner MOSCTHA travelled to Jacmel by ship the day after the earthquake to begin disaster assessm...
Christian Aid's ACT Alliance partner, Norwegian Church Aid, is providing clean water in Port-au-Prince. NCA has brought in a water purification system, complete with pipes, filters and pumps, to provide 10,000 people in the quake-ravaged city with clean water.
Christian Aid's Country Manager in Haiti, Prospery Raymond, was inside the Christian Aid office when it collapsed in Tuesday's earthquake. He was trapped for an hour in the rubble before a colleague was able to pull him free. This film, shot by Prospery, shows the Christian AId office and surrounding area, Canape Vert. Prospery reports seeing only two buildings still whole and standing in this area of the city. The UN has said that this is the worst disaster that they have ever had to deal wit...
Sarah Spinney, Christian Aid's climate change campaigns manager, responds to the disappointing outcome in Copenhagen and asks you to help continue building the global movement for climate justice into 2010.
'They have not listened to us, nor to justice or to equity. The worst is Obama who is our own son. He is an African man and he should have considered our fate.' Disappointment reigns among members of PACJA at the KlimaForum following news of Obama's speech. Isaiah Toroitich of Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the Countdown to Copenhagen movement, delivers the verdict on the leaders' statements today.
Shirley Bolanas from the Philippines and Fatija Abdul Hajid from Kenya - both in Copenhagen for the climate talks - react to the state of play following Obama's speech on Day 11.