“Inside Out” and Post-disaster Rehabilitation?

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Education is very important to the development of children. For those living in poor and developing countries, education is a critical and an effective way to lift them out of the poverty trap. In most of CEDAR’s project countries in Asia and Africa, there are projects to improve the quality of education and its accessibility.

In Hong Kong, CEDAR has a different role to play in regard to education. Instead of working to improve children’s basic education, we strive to educate both children and adults on global poverty issues. Through talks, experiential workshops and field trips, we hope to help participants understand more about poverty and other related issues, and to explore how they could respond and contribute.

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Easing the Twin Afflictions of Poverty and Disease

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Poverty and disease are closely intertwined. Unlike developed countries that are well-resourced, those living in poorer countries have a much higher risk of infection since they lack public health facilities and have very limited resources for disease education and prevention. Also, poor patients simply cannot afford expensive treatment and medication; some just have to watch their lives ticking away. Disease could take lives, but unaffordable medication could also be an invisible accomplice to the poor.

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Cooperatives Reduce Inequality and Discrimination

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The significance of cooperatives serving as associations and enterprises has been recognised, because through which citizens can effectively improve their lives while contributing to the economic, social, cultural and political advancement of their community and nation. Cooperatives have also been recognised as a distinct and major stakeholder in both national and international affairs.

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Invisible AIDS Orphans

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Gambi treats TPT’s project manager as his father.

Can you imagine a life without parents, health and a legal identity? At birth, Gambi (fake name) contracted HIV from his mother and later became an AIDS orphan. Instead of caring for him, his aunt took his parents’ house and even abused him. When Gambi was diagnosed with tuberculosis and became seriously ill, CEDAR Fund’s ministry partner Trinity Project Trust *(TPT) knew his case from a call asking for help and then sought for police intervention. Although Gambi was 17 years old, he was NOBODY under the law because he did not have any identification! This is also why his aunt could easily steal his house and properties.

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Burundi: Excessive Police Force Against Protesters

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In Burundi, protests broke out on 26 April 2015 after the ruling party announced President Pierre Nkurunziza would seek a third term in office.  Human rights organisation denounced Burundian police using excessive force against protesters and peaceful demonstrators.

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Bless the Iraqi Refugees on this Year’s World Refugee Day

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In a small tent in the cold northern Iraqi mountains, five children struggle to make the best of their difficult circumstance. They’ve been living here through the winter since Islamic State fighters broke into their home one late night last June and shot and killed their parents. One of the boys was also wounded by the gunshots. The children fled to safety together with their grandparents on Sinjar Mountain where they endured ten days without adequate food and water before reaching the safety of Iraqi Kurdistan.

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