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The Work of Baptist World Aid
, gives support and training in sustainable community development to member bodies of the BWA, and acts as a broker between those who develop projects and those who offer funding. In addition, it continues to coordinate disaster emergency response around the globe, ensuring a speedy and appropriate response. A primary focus of BWAid is the alleviation of poverty. BWAid seeks to educate and challenge our constituency to live justly and promote change to address poverty. Among other things it advocates for change in unjust structures recognizing that the solution to world poverty is not simply a matter of giving aid.
Emergency Response Fund
The Emergency Response Fund enables a Baptist response to be made to emergency situations where unusual circumstances disrupt
life – famine, earthquakes,
hurricanes, cyclones, tornadoes, fire, floods, volcanic eruptions, civil strife or war. Since BWA members now have a presence in more than 120 different countries, we have personnel in many areas where disasters occur. It is the local Baptist communities who are on the scene and ministering to their neighbors in times of crisis. They know the situations and the needs. When BWAid receives a request to assist from a member body, it is the Emergency Response Fund that allows us to make an initial response to the crisis. BWAid has been assisting member bodies in how to respond in times of emergency as well as helping fund their responses. 2012 brought hardship to many thousands of people affected by disasters. BWAid, through the Emergency Response Fund, assisted with earthquake recovery in Japan, Haiti and Myanmar; hurricane relief in Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Sierra Leone and the US; flood relief in Mozambique, Nigeria, India and Croatia; hunger emergency assistance in the Horn of Africa; assistance to refugees and internally displaced persons in Thailand, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, India and the Middle East; and ethnic clashes in India.
Funding for Development
Projects relating to development are the best way to lift people out of the cycle of poverty and hopelessness. To give people the ability to improve their lives as well as that of their family is a benefit to the community as a whole. When you support projects of education and livelihood training you are giving skills that will help bring people out of poverty and hunger. By supplying the simple tools and knowledge to plant crops, you are feeding them for a lifetime.
Baptist conventions and unions worldwide are following the
call of Jesus to love your neighbor, to feed those who are hungry and to minister to those in need. BWAid helps them with resources to implement their carefully planned projects.
Gifts for development allow member bodies to develop
projects aimed at eradicating extreme hunger and poverty in their communities. Projects that have inclusive participation of the community, that is, inclusion of women and youth participation from its inception, implementation, governance and evaluation, are given priority. Special consideration is also given to applicants who have sustainable community development in mind, as entire areas can be transformed when funding is applied strategically.
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aptist World Aid, the relief and development arm of the Baptist World Alliance®
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