Help End World Poverty!

Christian Aid was formed in 1945 by churches of all denominations in the UK and Ireland, to help the 55 million people displaced after WWII. Christian Aid continues to help people displaced by war, natural disaster and poverty.

In Guatemala indigenous farmers’ crops are dying due to climate change, causing extreme poverty, driving them out of their farms into the cities, where they remain in poverty.

Christian Aid is supporting a local initiative to teach indigenous farmers in Guatemala how to save rainwater to irrigate crops, how to make fertiliser and how to grow climate resistant crops, such as cocoa. In addition, helping the indigenous farmers form a co-op, enables them to sell their crops for a higher price and escape poverty.

This helps the indigenous people stay in the rain forest, which prevents commercial organisations buying their vacated farms to cut down the rainforest to produce palm oil, exacerbating climate change.