ActionAid International : fighting poverty together :
Forgot to mention a while ago that we now sponsor a child. This was a decision we made over Christmas - particularly after watching a number of Blue Peter shows featuring AIDS orphans in Malawi. I'll post all the details another time, but she lives in Tanzania. Reading the blurb on the Action Aid website, it covers a lot of the points that normally concern me about this kind of thing. In particular, the money from sponsorship is used to fund sustainable projects within the community which are then handed over to local people to manage. It also talks about lobbying locally and nationally for the community's rights and interests. Something I feel I can be a little more committed to than my usual stance to charity work of this nature (ie. time to lobby the governments and proverbially change the world rather than using charity to prop up the existing system).
Forgot to mention a while ago that we now sponsor a child. This was a decision we made over Christmas - particularly after watching a number of Blue Peter shows featuring AIDS orphans in Malawi. I'll post all the details another time, but she lives in Tanzania. Reading the blurb on the Action Aid website, it covers a lot of the points that normally concern me about this kind of thing. In particular, the money from sponsorship is used to fund sustainable projects within the community which are then handed over to local people to manage. It also talks about lobbying locally and nationally for the community's rights and interests. Something I feel I can be a little more committed to than my usual stance to charity work of this nature (ie. time to lobby the governments and proverbially change the world rather than using charity to prop up the existing system).
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