More than two thirds of Australians in a recent survey conducted by The Conversation admitted they avoid news at least some of the time, with news about climate change ranking third highest on the topics we scroll past.
Why? Does it feel too big to fight? Too overwhelming and negative?
Probably.
But for men, women and children who are already in the fight of their lives, small things can make a big difference. And you can help make those small things happen.
What can a seed provide?
Imagine you’re a family in Timor-Leste, living in an area prone to land slides and soil erosion, making it hard to grow food and leaving you constantly anxious about your house and family being swallowed by mud during the next storm – which are coming more and more often.
UnitingWorld partners are helping people plant out these areas to stabilise the land, absorb carbon, re-vitalise the soil for crop growth and provide protection from disaster.
Just $25 can provide seeds for the project.
Do kitchen gardens make a difference?
Imagine you’re a mum in Maluku. You worry constantly about the high price of food right across your region, forcing you to choose imported, low nutrition food. Food supply is difficult because of conflict over land and water and less predictable patterns of rainfall. Your youngest child is showing worrying signs of malnutrition.
UnitingWorld partners are helping people start their own productive kitchen garden to grow their own healthy, nutritious food – they’re supported with drought resistant seeds, irrigation techniques and training to improve the soil.
$90 from a donor in Australia this Lent can provide a place for you in the program.
Could a school be part of the solution?
Imagine you’re a child in rural Zimbabwe, watching the anxiety grow in your parents as your family crops fail once again. The rains won’t fall, or they fall too fast. Your parents give up their own meals to make sure you don’t go to bed hungry.
UnitingWorld partners are using schools as a hub where kids have reliable access to clean water, disaster risk reduction training and gardens to grow their own food – building the whole family’s resilience to climate shocks.
$250 can help support the program in a school – reaching hundreds of kids and families.
If you think climate change is too big to fight, ask the families, mums and children of the world’s hardest hit regions. They’ll tell you the smallest things can have a big impact. And they’ll tell you your contribution matters.
In 2025, UnitingWorld’s Lent Event is focusing on 40 days of action for God’s creation.
Why?
1. Our partners tell us climate change is the most critical issue facing their communities. Worldwide, changing climate and more disasters mean the poorest in our midst are going backwards in the challenge to grow food, find clean water, make a living and prevent death from disease.
2. We know that what we do together *actually* *genuinely* works. We meet people and hear stories of the way that our partners are saving lives and bringing hope person by person, in some of the world’s most vulnerable places.
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