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as easy as turning on a tap?
I guess sales of hand cream in the UK
have soared in the past year. ‘Hands,
Face, Space’ has been the mantra, to
help prevent the spread of Covid 19.
That’s fine - if you have a tap at hand. I
repeat a quote I used last month: ‘As a
mother of two, I know the pain of seeing
your children suffering from disease,
which can be easily prevented by simply
washing your hands’. Millions have
neither taps nor a water supply nearby Every little really does help. The more
yet in April came the news that the of us who respond, the more villages or
government is cutting 80% of its water communities will benefit. We have all
and sanitation budget, as part of its had that terrible feeling in a crisis that ‘I
overseas aid cut. am alone in this - despite being
For the second successive year we have surrounded by family and friends, who
been unable to support Christian Aid could help’. It must be the same for
Week in the usual way. As a result, people in remote communities in Africa,
Christian Aid lost millions last year and South America or Asia, with poor
will do so again this year. To help make communications, watching meagre water
up the shortfall we are encouraging supplies dry up completely and disease
people to hold small coffee gatherings, spread and feeling utterly abandoned.
once Covid restrictions have eased. If Covid has taught us anything, it is that
Just invite round half a dozen people you we are one world. Our governments
know (not only your regular friends), must engage urgently with each other in
give them coffee and cake for a small a spirit of cooperation. The tragic
charge, enjoy getting to know them and scenes unfolding in India demonstrate
challenge each of them to do the same. that the virus is blind to politics, class,
You can pass on the money raised either race or geography and no respect for
directly via the Christian Aid website international boundaries. We must
https://www.christianaid.org.uk/ or support the People's Vaccine Alliance, a
by giving me a cheque which I will growing movement of health and
forward. humanitarian organisations, past and
present world leaders, health leaders,
Remember faith leaders and economists. And we
£10.00 can buy four taps for a water must remember in our prayers all who
point at a dam where families can are working to relieve the great
collect water suffering, in the spirit of thankfulness for
what we have received.
£60.00 can buy 10 bags of cement to
help a community build an earth Claire Wilcox 877199
dam.
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