Eyewitness

Stories from around the world showing how Christian Aid and its partners are working to bring an end to poverty.

 

Polls and poverty: Iraqi elections

REACH blanket distribution

With the recent Iraqi elections, Christian Aid takes time to focus on our work supporting the poorest and most vulnerable people in Iraq.

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Brazil: The road to Paradise

Rui Barbosa

How Rui finally got land of his own, after camping out on the roadside for eight years.

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Burma’s refugees

Burma

Find out about Kho Ray, who has spent his whole life living in a refugee camp on the Thai/Burma border.

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Life is priceless: medicine is not

Stop AIDS

Christian Aid is part of the Stop AIDS Campaign and we are backing their Push for the Pool and supporting World AIDS Day 2009.

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Nicaragua - moving house

Silvia Castro Mendoza

Silvia Castro Mendoza used to live right beside a drainage ditch and her home flooded every single year. But then Christian Aid partner MCM supplied her with building materials to relocate.

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New hope for Palestinian refugee camp

Destruction at the Nahr el Bared camp

The foundation stone has been laid. Now a Christian Aid partner organisation is calling for more international support to rebuild a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon.

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Afghanistan: conflicting emotions

Women receive tailoring training in Afghanistan

In Afghanistan decades of conflict have created a cycle, where war’s destabilising bi-products are fuelling continuing violence. However, our work cannot wait till the gunfire stops.

War in Afghanistan

Colombia: caught in the crossfire

Juan Pedroso and daughter

Christian Aid Partner PDPMM is helping communities find some sort of peace amid the violence of Colombia's Magdalena Medio region.

Violence in Colombia

Solar energy in Malawi

Working the land in Malawi

A solar-driven water project is helping people in central Malawi.

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Bangladesh: how your money helps

Ducks in a field

A rickshaw puller from northern Bangladesh has not looked back since he received a batch of ducks on credit from a Christian Aid partner.

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