Christian Aid Podcasts

The Final Taboo

Few people would think of church leaders if asked to name heroes of the HIV response. But since its launch members of the International Network of Religious Leaders Living with, or Personally Affected by, HIV and AIDS (INERELA+) have been pioneering a new approach to prevention and challenging stigma associated with the virus.

Inerela

Antoinette Powell talks to one of its founding members, Reverend James Matarazzo, who explains why it was high time for leaders within the Christian church and other faiths to begin championing this work.

Working with faith leaders in this way is integral to Christian Aidís work on HIV. It is complemented by work with other faith-based and secular partner organisations, one of whom, the Methodist Youth Resource Centre in Sierra Leone, recorded the song used at the end of this podcast to support its work on HIV education. 

Useful links:

INERELA+

Christian Aidís work on HIV

The Methodist Youth Resource Centre music project

 

Why tax? Why now? And what impact are we having?

Poor countries have the riches to help work their own way out of poverty. But a worldwide culture of financial secrecy allows some unscrupulous companies to dodge tax and rob poor countries of more than $160bn a year.

Trace the Tax

Here David McNair, Christian Aid's Senior Economic Adviser and Rachel Baird, Policy and Campaigns Journalist talk about why we should work on tax now, and the major success of seeing tax internationally recognized as a key factor in meeting the Millennium Development Goals. 
 
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Christian Aid Trace the Tax Campaign
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Zimbabwe: relating aid, governance and poverty

In this, the fourth and last in a series of four short podcast programmes, Sarah Filbey speaks to Reverend Useni Sibanda of the Zimbabwe Christian Alliance (ZCA) about the relationship between international aid ( both long-term development and emergency), governance and Zimbabwe’s endemic poverty, in the journey towards a peaceful and democratic Zimbabwe.

01 Rev Useni Zimbabwe part 4

Christian Aid partners ZCA, Habakkuk Trust and the Student Christian Movement of Zimbabwe (SCMZ), are striving to ensure that the current constitution making process taking place in Zimbabwe through community level consultations is an open and representative one, free from intimidation.  In early 2011 Zimbabweans will vote in a referendum to either accept or reject the constitution.  This may lead to a general election later in the year.  Whatever the outcome, our partners are also doing all they can now to limit the likelihood of the violence that marred the last elections in March 2008.

Useful links:

Zimbabwe iStories

Habbakkuk Trust video

Follow Sarah and her colleagues on Twitter

Zimbabwe: healing, peacekeeping and reconciliation

In this, the third in a series of four short podcast programmes, Sarah Filbey speaks to Reverend Useni Sibanda of the Zimbabwe Christian Alliance (ZCA) about the urgent need for healing, peacekeeping and reconciliation within divided communities, in the journey towards a peaceful and democratic Zimbabwe.

01 Rev Useni Zimbabwe part 3

Christian Aid partners ZCA, Habakkuk Trust and the Student Christian Movement of Zimbabwe (SCMZ), are striving to ensure that the current constitution making process taking place in Zimbabwe through community level consultations is an open and representative one, free from intimidation.  In early 2011 Zimbabweans will vote in a referendum to either accept or reject the constitution.  This may lead to a general election later in the year.  Whatever the outcome, our partners are also doing all they can now to limit the likelihood of the violence that marred the last elections in March 2008.

Useful links:

Zimbabwe iStories

Habbakkuk Trust video

Follow Sarah and her colleagues on Twitter

 

 

 

Zimbabwe: ensuring a fair new constitution

In this, the second in a series of four short podcast programmes, Sarah Filbey speaks to Reverend Useni Sibanda of the Zimbabwe Christian Alliance (ZCA) about the significance of the ongoing constitution making process in the journey towards a peaceful and democratic Zimbabwe.

01 Rev Useni Zimbabwe part 2

Christian Aid partners ZCA, Habakkuk Trust and the Student Christian Movement of Zimbabwe (SCMZ), are striving to ensure that the current constitution making process taking place in Zimbabwe through community level consultations is an open and representative one, free from intimidation.  In early 2011 Zimbabweans will vote in a referendum to either accept or reject the constitution.  This may lead to a general election later in the year.  Whatever the outcome, our partners are also doing all they can now to limit the likelihood of the violence that marred the last elections in March 2008.

Useful links:

Zimbabwe iStories

Habbakkuk Trust video

Follow Sarah and her colleagues on Twitter

Zimbabwe: role of the church

In this, the first in a series of four short podcast programmes, Sarah Filbey speaks to Reverend Useni Sibanda of the Zimbabwe Christian Alliance (ZCA) about the role of the church in the journey towards a peaceful and democratic Zimbabwe.

01 Rev Useni Zimbabwe part 1

Christian Aid partners ZCA, Habakkuk Trust and the Student Christian Movement of Zimbabwe (SCMZ), are striving to ensure that the current constitution making process taking place in Zimbabwe through community level consultations is an open and representative one, free from intimidation.  In early 2011 Zimbabweans will vote in a referendum to either accept or reject the constitution.  This may lead to a general election later in the year.  Whatever the outcome, our partners are also doing all they can now to limit the likelihood of the violence that marred the last elections in March 2008.

Useful links:

Zimbabwe iStories

Habbakkuk Trust video

Follow Sarah and her colleagues on Twitter