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Christian Aid Week: 14-20 May 2023

Your gifts this Christian Aid Week could help farmers in Malawi plant better seeds, secure a fairer price for the crops, and build happier futures for their children.
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Esther and her family Credit: Adam Hagggerty/Christian Aid
Esther and her family sit on the steps of their front house in Malawi

Soaring costs are affecting people here and around the world.

Families in Malawi are paying the price of this global crisis.

The money you've raised this Christian Aid Week will make an enormous difference to the lives of people living in poverty around the world. People like Jen, who's remaining resilient and hopeful in the face of hardship.

Your support this Christian Aid week will help create long-term change for people living in poverty. Watch our new thank you film featuring Jen in Malawi who shares the impact of Cyclone Freddy and why your Christian Aid Week donations and fundraising are so important.

 

A big thank you!

Your support this Christian Aid week will help create long-term change for people living in poverty. Watch our new thank you film featuring Jen in Malawi who shares the impact of Cyclone Freddy and why your Christian Aid Week donations and fundraising are so important.

 

What a Christian Aid Week!

We have been celebrating all the wonderful stories we’ve heard. We’d love to share them all here, but you might be reading until next May! So, we've compiled a handful of the inspiring things you did this Christian Aid Week.

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Mearns Kirk Plant Sale Volunteers at their stall Credit: Charlie Meiklejohn/Christian Aid
Women wearing Christian Aid tabards at a bake sale
Your Christian Aid Week gift

It's not too late to donate to Christian Aid Week and help more families have a brighter future.

Helpful links

Pay in your fundraising money and find answers to some commonly asked questions

How to pay in your fundraising monies

Thank you for your amazing efforts! Here's how you can pay in the money you've worked so hard to raise.

Returns (Form A)

Use this to pay in all money raised offline during Christian Aid Week (including from house-to-house collections).

Christian Aid Week Help Centre

Our Help Centre will help you find answers to some commonly asked questions.

Malawi Cyclone Update

The impact of the recent Cyclone Freddy in Malawi has been devastating. Floods have washed away crops, over 500,000 people have been displaced and hundreds have lost their lives.

Christian Aid Week is at its most powerful when a disaster happens. Through you, we will be there long after the flood waters recede, helping families build back. Your gifts this May will continue to support the pigeon pea project and other vital work around the world. 

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Survivors of flooding work to repair damage caused by Cyclone Idai in Chikwawa district, Malawi Credit: Richard Nyoni / Christian Aid
A man lifting bricks out of water after cylone Idai in Malawi

Fundraising challenges

With you by their side, women like Jen can make their children’s dreams come true.

The Big Pea Challenge

Inspired by the transformational pigeon pea, this challenge invites you to hold your own pea-themed fundraiser.

Worship with us

Christian Aid Week is the perfect time for your church to come together in celebration and reflection.

Envelopes that change lives

Your envelope could help famers like Jen plant better seeds and build happier futures for their children.

Christian Aid Week events

Do you want to do something special with your friends or church this May? Let us help with the planning.

Jen's story

Jen, a loving mum in Malawi, dreams of her children being able to have the education they deserve. Her hard-working boys have earned places at top colleges – but Jen cannot afford to send them both.

Read her story, and learn how your gifts could help farmers like Jen plant better seeds, secure a fairer price for the crops, and build happier futures for their children.

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Chimwemwe, 14, getting ready for school. Credit: Adam Haggerty/ Christian Aid
A woman fixing her son's shirt collar
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Esther Saizi and her cooperative make bread from processed pigeon peas. Credit: Adam Haggerty/ Christian Aid
A group of women in Malawian cooperative making bread

Esther's story

Softly-spoken Esther Saizi radiates joy and warmth.

Esther grows some truly special pigeon peas on her farm - with them she can bake delicious bread, support her daughter’s dreams, and give her adorable little grandsons a happy future, full of love and laughter.

But she wasn't always able to support her family so easily.

Find out how Christian Aid Week donations like yours made this life change possible for Esther.

We won’t stop until everyone has the chance to live a full life, free from poverty.

We are united in hope that, with your help, more young people will be able to transform their lives.