Irish charity fighting global poverty

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The 0.2% Pledge

We cannot turn our backs on the world’s poorest people, especially during a global pandemic. Take a stand against broken promises and pledge to give 0.2% of your income each month to help more women like Achela.

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Give thanks for your vaccine

Help protect the most vulnerable people for whom the coronavirus vaccine is out of reach.

A woman holds one of 200 dry ration packs distributed by partners EFICOR in Dehli to help households cope with loss of income over lockdown.

Coronavirus response: India

In India, a second wave of Covid is having a devastating impact. Read how Christian Aid's local partners are working to support the country's most vulnerable and marginalised people at this difficult time.

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]'.

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