“Planting medicinal plants in our villages is important so that we can look after people and they can be healthy.”

— Children’s eco club, Tamil Nadu, India supported by CWS

Useful Links

The following sites will give you more information on the issues CWS works on:

CWS Networks	Topics
International:	Climate Change
ACT International: Global alliance for emergency relief	IPCC Intergovermental panel on climate change
ACT Development: Global alliance for development	Fair Trade
Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance campaigning against global injustice	Fair Trade Association of Australia & NZ Trade Aid
Jubilee UK: Drop the debt campaign Jubilee USA: Debt campaign World Council of Churches Decade to Overcome Violence: Churches seeking reconciliation and peace	Food Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
New Zealand	International news
Jubilee Aotearoa Debt action network	IRIN UN Humanitarian news service
Council for International Development	Alert Net
NZAID Government’s agency for delivering New Zealand’s Official Development Assistance	New Internationalist Inter Press Service Journalism for global change
Anglican Social Justice Commission Anglican Missions Board Mission and Ecumenical (Methodist Church) Global Missions Office (Presbyterian Church) Cluster Munitions Coalition: campaign to ban cluster bombs	Poverty Millennium Development Goals Human Development Reports UNDP UN Development Programme
Supporting Churches	Refugees
Anglican Church of Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia	UNRWA UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees
Methodist Church of New Zealand	UNHCR UN Refugee Agency
Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand	Water
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)	UN Water
The Salvation Army	Ecumenical Water Network
Christian Churches New Zealand
Uniting Congregations of Aotearoa New Zealand