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Dr Niveen, , a mental health practitioner with the Palestine Red CrescentSociety (PRCS) in Gaza, which has received a share of £5.7m raised in Scotland through humanitarian appeals

Local heroes working in Middle East thanks to Scots donations

Refugees arrive at the Rugerero transit camp in Gisenyi as they flee clashes in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this year (Picture: Tony Karumba)

Six million dead: Why Scotland needs to know about forgotten conflict Martin Johnstone

The Will Aid team at Friels

Coatbridge law firm raises £3,180 in charity Will-writing campaign

People in South Sudan are today facing flooding, hunger, intercommunal violence and political unrest (Picture: Luis Tato)

Why Keir Starmer didn't have to make devastating cut to overseas aid David Green

Exclusive Kirk calls for ‘united’ effort on climate as crisis meeting held in Edinburgh

Refugees who have fled from the war in Sudan line up during a cash assistance programme at a transit centre for refugees in South Sudan earlier this year.

How Sudan's civil war is fuelling a refugee crisis in neighbouring South Sudan

Church personnel inspect damages inside the Odesa Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa, Ukraine, in July 2023, following Russian missile attacks. Picture: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

Aid worker tells of displaced Ukrainians on visit with Archbishop of Canterbury

The possible closure of the Grangemouth oil refinery as early as 2025 is a wake-up call (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

Cost of climate change threatens to wreak havoc on Scotland's economy

Christian Aid found the highest per capita cost of natural disasters were the wildfires which affected Hawaii in August. Picture: Getty Images

Global postcode lottery leaves poor countries vulnerable to impact of disasters

Rishi Sunak

Kirk moderator criticises Sunak’s decision to roll back climate commitments

Afghan children play near their makeshift tents at Nayeb Rafi village in Zendeh Jan district of Herat province on 10 December, two months since the first of three earthquakes to hit the region.

Scottish funding for Afghan people hit by triple earthquake

Fire fighters inspect damages caused by heavy rain which led to flood homes in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

How Scottish charities will use £2 million 'loss and damage' fund

Women from previously-occupied villages work on crafts at Heritage Ukraine's summer camp.

Charity running summer camps for adults in Ukraine says light 'is coming back’

A worker cuts and collects coffee fruits in a coffee plantation.

Climate change: Will you have to live without your daily coffee fix?

Easter is upon us and that means the end of Lent is too - here’s everything you need to know about the holy period

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A damaged building in eastern Ukraine.

Scottish charity helping devastated Ukrainian villages become self-sufficient

The drought has caused a food crisis in Ethiopia. By Chris Hoskins, Tearfund.

Drought situation in East Africa ‘at crisis level’

Women stand next to a water well in the camp for internally displaced people of Farburo 2 in the village of Adlale, near the city of Gode, Ethiopia. The worst drought to hit the Horn of Africa for 40 years is pushing 20 million people towards starvation, according to the UN, destroying an age-old way of life and leaving many children suffering from severe malnutrition as it rips families apart (Photo: Eduardo Soteras/AFP via Getty Images)

East Africa needs more than goodwill this Christmas - Jo Dallas

The Afghan community in London flew kites on Hampstead Heath this summer to commemorate one year since the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban.

The Afghan woman who had to pay her son to accompany her on a work trip

Rev Sally Foster Fulton has become the new Moderator Designate of The Church of Scotland. She is photographed here at St Cuthbert's Church in Edinburgh. Picture: Andy O'Brien

Charity boss unveiled as next Church of Scotland moderator

Bidale Phintsire, 56, an agro-pastoralist in Malle woreda, South Omo, shows his scorched maize crop. Bidale has six children.

If we don't act now, millions may die in East Africa - Sally Foster-Fulton

The signs of a changing climate are clear on the shores of Malawi's Lake Chilwa (Picture: Amos Gumulira/AFP via Getty Images)

Here's why UK must reverse its aid cuts to poor but stable countries like Malawi

Fisherman Md. Mizan Molla from Bangladesh sits in front the wreckage of the house he shares with his parents, wife and brothers after a storm struck

Time to apply the 'polluter pays' principle on a global scale - Chris Hegarty

Janet Zirugo, who has been severely impacted by drought in Mutoka District, Zimbabwe, is now receiving training in climate smart agriculture techniques (Piture: Christian Aid/David Brazier)

We need a loss and damage fund for climate change's victims - Val Brown

The bright colours of the Ukraine flag were beamed on to St Giles’ Cathedral in the heart of Edinburgh

Hope is the invisible thread that unites us all - Sally Foster-Fulton

Leanne Clelland, communications officer, Christian Aid Scotland

Aiding the starving of Afghanistan - Leanne Clelland

Flooding has destroyed this farmer’s crops in South Sudan leaving villagers in dire need of urgent humanitarian assistance.

Let Scotland lead the way in 2022 - Chris Hegarty

Gill Blake, Christian Aid Legacy and In Memory Officer

Online service will be a time to come together and remember loved ones - Gill Bl...

he Scottish Government will contribute £250,000 in humanitarian aid

Scottish Government donates £250,000 in aid to South Sudan food emergency

Sally Foster-Fulton, Head of Christian Aid Scotland

Famine is the most offensive F-word in the world’s vocabulary in 2021 - Sally Fo...

Sally Foster-Fulton, Head of Christian Aid Scotland

Vaccine justice: Where we live should not dictate when we get offered jag - Sall...

Christian Aid is joining widespread calls for the Scottish Parliament to pass a Wellbeing and Sustainable Development Bill.

Coherent approach needed on international aid - Chris Hegarty

Rabaha is a divorced mother of three from Lebanon, who lives with her children in Nabaa, Beirut. She was injured in the blast.

Scottish aid in Lebanon: 'They send us pictures of their empty kitchen shelves'

Pastoralist herdsman Mekonen Sofar, 38, takes his cattle to a dry river bed where he will excavate to find water to supply to his livestock in Mukecha Kebele, Ethiopia. Mekonen Is feeling the effects of climate change as his livestock numbers dwindle and he finds it hard to feed and water them in a continuous drought environment. His household benefited from BRACE from his wife being a member of the local self help group and weather listening group. (Picture: Elizabeth Dalziel)

Like the virus, climate change continues to rage across the globe - Fiona Buchan...

Farmer Bodo Ayiso, whose crops were eaten by the locusts.

Desert locusts plague East Africa on scale not seen for decades - Sally Foster-F...

Gill Blake, Legacy Officer, Christian Aid Scotland

Where there’s a Will there’s a way to make a difference for the world's poorest ...

Women in Nigeria are pleased to receive a package of essential items. Each registered household includes soap, body lotion, tissue paper, toothbrush and toilet paste and flipflops. Households with women and babies received sanitary towels and nappies. Christian Aid/Jerry Clinton

Christian Aid helps lead fightback in renewing and resetting society – Sally Fos...

Christian Aid partners are helping women at risk of increased rates of domestic violence during lockdown

As the world reels from coronavirus, Christian Aid there for most vulnerable

Val Brown, Church & Community Action Manager, Christian Aid Scotland

Coronavirus impacts all of us but love unites us – Val Brown

Faith Muvili is now able to collect water for her crops thanks to a nearby dam (Picture: Adam Finch)

People like Faith can move mountains with your help – Sally Foster-Fulton

Fiona Buchanan, Campaigns and Advocacy Coordinator for Christian Aid Scotland

Fiona Buchanan: Where’s the justice in a climate crisis that poor people didn’t ...

Ranjita and her daughter Soniya

Sally Foster-Fulton: Poverty has a woman’s face, say the UN – but there are peop...
Almost 25 years ago, a UN Human Development Report claimed that “poverty has a woman’s face”. Gender inequality is a major cause and effect of poverty. An est...

Honey is refined at a production hub in Embu County, Kenya. Photograph: Christian Aid

Nadia Cunden: Hives of industry the surest hope of conquering poverty

Some of the women from Indias excluded communities who are being trained in organic farming to give them autonomy and help them to break free from a life of extreme poverty

Christian Aid Scotland programme growing organically to help marginalised women ...

Ten of the hottest years on record have occurred since 2002, the Met Office has confirmed. Picture: Shutterstock

UK's 10 hottest years on record have all occurred since 2002, Met Office confirm...

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Jo Dallas: New mothers have the wonderful NHS – spare a thought for those who do...

gertrude humooya, a small scale Zambian farmer

Chris Hegarty: Scotland in perfect position to lead world on ‘climate neutral’ c...

Salt Network members have pledged to reform business practices.

Successful businesses can be a force for good for the rest of the world

Mary Mulligan, Churches Development Officer for Christian Aid Scotland.

Mary Mulligan: Real people benefit directly from the difference your support can...

Diana Abbas is the only psychologist working at a children's centre in Nahr al-Bared camp for Palestinian refugees, in northern Lebanon.

Sally Foster Fulton: Will you find peace this Christmas? Millions of people arou...

The Girls Building Bridges project in Luanda, Angola, is designed to help teenagers learn how to speak up for themselves

Sian Curry: The country where girls are trained to do what men tell them

Helen Bellany, wife of the reknown Scottish artist John Bellany, with the painting 'Star of Hope'.

Charity hopes on John Bellany as star of George Street art sale

Aster Argo, with her children Agar, 11, Hinit, 9, and baby Dibora

Sally Foster-Fulton: Global warming is real and happening '“ just ask women in p...

The Scottish Government is to give Â£300,000 of emergency aid to help victims of three of the world's most violent ongoing conflicts. Picture: Getty

Overseas conflict victims to receive Â£300,000 from Scottish Government

Vilia Odino, 45, outside her hurricane-resistant home in Torbeck, Haiti. Seen here with her son(s). Vilia?s home, built by Christian Aid, became shelter to 54 people during Hurricane Matthew in 2016. When the hurricane hit, her neighbours quickly realised that her house was the only one in the area sturdy enough to survive. She shared food and a safe shelter to sleep for several days.Despite the ferocity of the hurricane, her house lost just one roof panel and wasn?t damaged in any other way. Many of the other homes in the area were totally destroyed. Vilia was given the home by Christian Aid Partner KORAL when she returned to the area after losing her mother and home in the 2010 earthquake in Port Au Prince. Homeless and with seven children to look after, KORAL reached out to help the family who were clearly vulnerable. Vilia said: ?I was so happy with the house, I couldn't even wait for them to turn it over to me, it wasn't even done, I went inside, blocked it with sheets and slept inside.? While her h

Sally Foster-Fulton: Christian Aid brings calm after the storm

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