Photo: Christian Aid/ Felicia Webb
'We are striving for an end to poverty.'

Christian Aid is an agency of the churches in the UK and Ireland.

We work wherever the need is greatest – irrespective of religion or race.

We believe in strengthening people to find
solutions to their own problems, so we support local organisations best placed to understand local needs.

We also help them through 16 overseas offices.

We are striving for an end to poverty and campaigning to change the rules that keep people poor.

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In Bolivia, CIPCA trains communities in sheep farming. Once trained, each community receives 20 ewes and one ram. As their flock grows the community can return sheep to CIPCA.

Malaquia Rosel, who lives in Santa Ana del Museruna, says ‘Last year from the money I got selling three sheep I could pay for my son’s school and board.’

• £18.80/€27 could buy another woolless sheep for a Bolivian indigenous community.

In Ethiopia, counsellors trained by Christian Aid’s partner the Organisation for Social Services for AIDS (OSSA) advise poor communities how to find better housing, get micro-credit facilities and start up their own businesses.

• It costs £37.50/€55 to train a youth counsellor to work with those living with HIV and AIDS.