Irish charity fighting global poverty

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Find out more about our work to end poverty and how you can help, either individually or with your church.

Afghan children attempt to collect water

Afghanistan Hunger Appeal

Please join us and stand with your global neighbours in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan: an update and our response

How we're supporting the Afghan people during this current time.

Haiti Earthquake Appeal

Help families whose homes have been destroyed by the earthquake in Haiti to recover and rebuild.

Dr Shirley Chee with her retirement flowers, June 2021

Greystones teacher retires, pledging a gift in her Will to Christian Aid Ireland

As a child, Shirley Chee's parents fostered a little girl who'd been injured in the war in Eritrea. Now she's pledging to help other children whose lives have been torn apart by conflict and poverty.

Tyonyar Ungon, 60, collecting his hygiene kit at an aid distribution funded by Christian Aid’s Covid appeal in Adagi community, Benue State, Nigeria, November 2020. He is partially disabled.

Vaccine inequality hitting lower income countries the hardest

In this blog, we hear from Christian Aid colleagues based in Africa to get their take on the real-life impacts of vaccine inequality between wealthy and poorer countries.

Impact of the devastating coronavirus second wave in India

The scenes we have seen unfolding across India in recent weeks are nothing short of devastating. In this blog, we hear about the impacts of India’s second wave of coronavirus from a local partner who are based in northern India.

Stand for justice in Israel & Palestine, call for a lasting peace today.

Over the past 11 days, violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian territory has spiralled out of control, with many innocent Palestinians and Israelis dead, wounded or simply exhausted with fear.

As a ceasefire is declared, ecumenical church leaders from around the globe have called on the United Nations 'to act immediately to address the continuing underlying causes of injustice that will otherwise remain a constant threat to peace in Israel and the [occupied Palestinian territory]'.

Call on your government to pursue a lasting peace today.

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