Christian Aid is a brilliant campaigning organisation. Think back a few years – their main campaign for several years from around 1997 was ‘break the chain of 3rd world debt’.. then around 2001 they moved to ‘Trade Justice’… in each case significantly raising the issue up the national consciousness, changing behaviours and government action and helping outcomes. There have been debt writeoffs and the value of the fairtrade market continues to soar..
And now they are focusing on climate change and campaigning to get the UK to cut its carbon emissions by 5% per year. Because its the poor who will likely first pay the price of climate change.
‘It is not the Kings and the Generals that make history, but the masses of the people.’
Nelson Mandela
