.@christian_aid partner Najdeh has been able to scale up support to Palestinian refugees across camps in Lebanon, following mass displacement last October - thanks to generous donations to our Middle East appeal
Patrick Watt
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Thank you to the amazing volunteers of our Lebanese partner MSL - many of them women displaced by the war - for introducing their kitchen in Beirut's Burj Hammoud, which with @decappeal £ is providing hundreds of IDPs with good food and practical support
Bishop Budde's 'achievement shouldn’t be measured in how many people attend her next service. It should be measured in how many other people feel a duty to speak out against what they know is wrong'. Amen to that. ft.com/content/6860db… via @ft
www.ft.com Trump and the troublesome priest The president complained about the bishop’s mixing of religion and politics but in his version of Christianity the two are intertwined From a quality perspective 'peak aid' was probably hit around the time of the global financial crisis.
Since then it's had less and less to do with poverty, as donors have bent it to commercial and geopolitical ends theguardian.com/global-develop…
Since then it's had less and less to do with poverty, as donors have bent it to commercial and geopolitical ends theguardian.com/global-develop…
www.theguardian.com With the knives out on development spending, have we reached ‘peak aid’? | Nilima Gulrajani and... From Trump’s Project 2025 to a huge funding cut by the Dutch, donors are turning their backs on aid Ihab Faisal, a human rights defender who worked for our long standing partner @pchrgaza was killed earlier today in an Israeli strike on Gaza, hours after the ceasefire was announced. There are no words reliefweb.int/report/occupie…