NZ Freephone Preparedness is not for working for the world's most vulnerable
As spring arrives and new life begins to stir around us, we at CWS are reminded of the hope and new life-lifting change that your generosity brings to communities facing poverty, conflict, and injustice around the world. However, at this writing, I am comparing the aftermath of the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that has just hit Japan with the double earthquakes that hit Venezuela in June.
While there were tragic and heartbreaking deaths and injuries in Japan, they total less than 35 dead and less than 200 injured at this point. In Venezuela the aftermath of the double 7.1 and 7.5 magnitude earth quakes devastating that country in June, currently over 5000 dead have been recovered and the United Nations suspects that the missing across the country could be as many as 40,000.
The difference in the lower cost of lives in Japan is preparedness. Effective preparedness. And effective preparedness requires multiple pre-existing conditions to have been met in order to minimise the human cost. Much of those needed pre-existing conditions are about justice. And injustice.
This is exactly where your compassion makes a profound difference and can contribute to setting the course for better preparedness in the future for many of the world’s most vulnerable people through the work of our global partners.
Each of these initiatives shares a common purpose: building resilience and strengthening effective preparedness before the next emergency arrives in the lives of many of the world’s most vulnerable people.
These stories are only possible because of you.
As we continue to “trim the cloth” (doing more with less where we can) and steward every donation carefully, your gifts are reaching further and lifting more lives.
Spring says that new life is always possible. With your continued support, CWS can help reflect that by ensuring that hope, safety, and resilience take root in places where disaster mixed with injustice have stolen too much.
Thank you for standing with us to bring the needed change. Thank you for lifting lives. And thank you for considering a renewed gift this spring to strengthen and sustain the work of our partners around the world.
Spring Newsletter
Read about our ACT Alliance partner, Lutheran World Federation, who are on the ground in Venezuela providing desperately needed help in the aftermath of June’s double earthquake. Read more here.
We also feature how a new association with UnitingWorld Australia is ensuring more robust preparedness for the future in remote Solomon Islands communities by installing reliable solar energy. Read more here.
Then you can read about the Developers Foundation, in the Philippines, where local teams have successfully integrated disaster risk reduction priorities into community planning. Read about this here.
Also, in the Spring Supporter’s Newsletter read about:
