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This Christian Aid Week, we are fundraising to support communities facing the climate crisis and hunger.
In Guatemala indigenous farmers’ crops are dying due to climate change, causing extreme poverty.
Christian Aid is supporting a local initiative to teach indigenous farmers how to save rainwater to irrigate crops, how to make fertiliser and how to grow climate resistant crops such as cocoa. By also helping the indigenous farmers form a co-op, enables them to sell their crops for a higher price and escape poverty.
This helps the indigenous people stay in the rain forest, which prevents commercial organisations buying their vacated farms to cut down the rainforest to produce palm oil, exacerbating climate change.
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