Christian Aid Podcasts

Bangladesh - a personal reflection

Cyclone Aila hit the coastal regions of Bangladesh in May 2009 - around 300 people were killed, and more than 10,000 people were affected. Gen Lomax reflects on Shushilan work to rebuild people's lives after Cyclone Aila and the long term affects of climate change in this area. 

Click this link to listen to the podcast:

Personal reflection on meeting Selina Begum in Bangladesh

In this podcast, recorded in Jatrindronagar village, Satkira District, Gen speaks about Selina Begum, an inspirational women she has met who is volunteering with Shushilan, a partner of Christian Aid. She reflects on Selina's involvement in a saline resistant rice seed project to adapt to increased salinated water - an effect of climate change in this area, and Selina's fight for women's equality in her community.

Matopeni: Building a strong community

When Christian Aid's Mohamed Adow visited the Matopeni slum in Nairobi ahead of Christian Aid Week 2010, he was outraged by the conditions in which people were forced to live. With Christian Aid's support Kenyan organisation Maji na Ufanisi have been working with the community to improve their environment and help them take control of their future.

Click this link to listen to the podcast:

January 2011, Mohamed Adow on Matopeni

In this podcast, recorded six months after physical work began in Matopeni, Mohamed reflects on the slum's changes and far the community has come.

Useful links

• Christian Aid Matopeni diary
• Maji na Ufanisi

Haiti - live from the field

After a month off, we're back with a weekly series of podcasts from the @ca_global team here at Christian Aid. In this first episode of 2011, Christian Aid's senior emergency manager Anthony Morton-King talks to us down the line from Haiti. On a crackly, difficult line he shares the difficulties of working in such an extreme disaster situation, and the way in which our projects reach the most vulnerable.

Click here to play the audio:

Anthony Mort King 1 year

Background to the emergency

In January 2010, a devastating earthquake measuring 7 on the Richter scale hit Haiti. This was their most powerful quake in 200 years, killing 230,000 people and leaving over one million people without homes. Christian Aid launched an appeal in the days following the disaster and, combined with our allocation of DEC funds, raised £10 million. Our partners have been working over the past 12 months to respond to the immediate and on-going needs of those most affected by the quake.

Useful links:
www.christianaid.org.uk/haiti
www.twitter.com/ca_global