Ever wondered what life would be like if we didn’t have the luxury of clean drinking water and adequate sewage disposal? Christians met together at the Friary Church in Crawley Town Centre on Sunday 9th May for a service to mark the beginning of Christian Aid Week 2010. They found out what life is like in some of the slum settlements in and around Nairobi in Kenya. There are no toilets; people make do with very inadequate conditions which causes severe suffering for the poorest of the World’s population.
The service was arranged by the Churches Together in Tilgate and Furnace Green, although many different communities were represented. Christian Aid and CAFOD (Catholic Fund for Overseas Development) joined forces to show compassion for the poorest of the poor. The collection taken up will be shared equally between the two relief agencies.
Photograph shows Mr. Martin Brown of CAFOD explaining how relief agencies work.
Steve Innes
Photographs Neil Olsen
