Influencing Change

Our world has a problem with waste – and it’s hitting people living in poverty the hardest. Today, 2 billion people in the world’s poorest countries are living and working among piles of waste – that’s one in four of us. Drinking polluted water. Breathing toxic air. Battling sickness.  Each day the waste mountains are […]

It’s back! For the 3rd consecutive year, IDDC are organising ‘European Disability and Development Week’, starting with the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (December 3) and concluding a week later on Human Rights Day (December 10). You can find out more and register your workshop at the following website – click here to access. #EDDW18 […]

The next global moment for the Renew our World campaign comes this December in Poland at the UN Climate talks – COP 24. Our aim in this moment is to bring actions and prayers from Christians across the world to ask world leaders to turn the Paris Agreement into action and keep on track to […]

As members of the IDDC EU Task Group, EU-CORD is fully supportive of the joint IDDC-EDF statement for a disability-inclusive EU budget in the next multi-annual financial framework. You can read the position in full at this link (external), then follow and share our messages: #Inclusive MFF #CRPD #LNOB #EUBudget The UN Convention on the Rights of […]

The EU-CORD network is represented by its Director Ruth Faber at the first ever Global Disability Summit which will be held this July in London. As a network of Christian mainstream humanitarian and development NGOs with a commitment to disability inclusion, EU-CORD has signed the Charter for Change and has submitted its own commitments ahead of […]

EU-CORD celebrates 20 years as a network. 2017 was an important year for the network, as we celebrated 20 years of working together in partnership for better development and humanitarian outcomes. A year of reflection culminated in a special General Assembly that brought together most of our members from across Europe. We chose to challenge ourselves […]

‘Together for Inclusion‘ – the International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC) celebrates the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. As a member of IDDC, EU-CORD is encouraging our members, colleagues and the general public to participate in this week of events. We will also be active on twitter, using the #EDDW17 hashtag and you can find up-to-date [...]

Christian leaders across the globe are calling on world leaders to keep their Paris Agreement promises, ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany. Please add your name to the public letter at www.renewourworld.net. Five Anglican Archbishops from three continents, speaking on behalf of the 85 million-member Anglican Communion, branded climate change ‘the challenge […]

In this article we introduce the second German member to join us this year. Who is World Relief Germany? World Relief Germany was founded in 1998 as PartnerAid. The Christian organisation summarises their work and motivation as follows: ‘Our faith in God and commitment to reconciliation motivate us to partner with communities in relief and […]

Earlier this year, EU-CORD welcomed two new German members to the network  – Sign of Hope and World Relief Germany. In this, the first of two articles, we focus on Sign of Hope and their work in Ethiopia.  Who is Sign of Hope? Sign of Hope, which is called Hoffnungszeichen in German, is a human […]