DEVELOP - Autumn/Winter 2012

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WATERIMPROVEMENTWe meet Lydia who tells us the difference accessto clean water has made to her life

TACKLINGTRAFFICKINGWe see how technology can help in the fight against trafficking

GROWINGKNOWLEDGEWe help farmers in Zimbabwe to make the best use of their land

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Our VisionLife with dignity, equality for all people and a world without poverty and injustice.

Our MissionOur mission is to resource, empower and support developing communities to defeat poverty and injustice and enable them to build a better life and future.

We engage people to comprehend injustice and take action to restore our world as a place where justice, dignity and equality are a reality for all people.

The Salvation Army is at work in 125 countries worldwide.

Want to know more?If you would like to find out more about our work, have further information about one of our projects, or would like to inquire about booking one of our team members for an event, simply contact us and we will be happy to help resource you. Similarly, if you are interested in ordering resources or have a story to tell us about how you are helping to make a difference then please get in touch:

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‘I will make rivers flow on mountain peaks. I will send streams to fill the valleys. Dry and barren land will flow with springs and become a lake.’

Isaiah 41:18 (Contemporary English Version)

Welcome to our latest edition of DEVELOP. Inside these pages we’ve got lots of exciting stories to share with you about the way we are seeing

lives transformed all around the world; where people are empowered to lift themselves out of poverty and are set free from the bonds of injustice.

We’ve also been working hard over the last few months to revamp our WATERSHED programme. We have seen tremendous progress made in providing access to clean water over the last few years. Thousands of people in 11 countries have benefited from the money you have donated to WATERSHED since 2006, and globally more people have access to clean and safe water than ever before. But the work’s not finished yet. There are still 783 million people going without clean water – that’s 1 in 8 people on our planet – and we want you to help us change that.

Whether through rainwater harvesting, gravity-fed schemes, innovative sand-dams or boreholes, we’re always looking for the most appropriate ways to respond to a community’s water need. The techniques vary, but the aim is always the same – to provide access to clean water in a culturally relevant and simple way that includes the whole community.

We have been privileged to be able to see first hand the difference that clean water can make to the lives of communities around the world. We’ve seen groups of women dance for joy thanking God for the difference that clean water has made to their lives.

We’ve seen young boys stronger because they no longer get sick from water-borne diseases. We’ve seen little girls smarter because they are able to spend longer in school instead of having to fetch water for the family.

We have just produced a new ACTION PACK to help you and those around you to be motivated to take action (see page 5 for more details).

Of course it’s not all about water, and inside you’ll also find updates on our other areas of work and the different ways you can support our efforts to enable people to build a better life and future.

Please do continue to keep supporting our work, both financially and by spreading the word. And on behalf of the thousands of people around the world who benefit from our projects every year, thank you for all you do.

Major Heather PoxonDirector, The Salvation Army International Development (UK)

GIVING LIFE

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LIVE BELow thE LINE UpdatEThanks to everyone who either took part or supported someone who took part in Live Below the Line this year. Thanks to your commitment to live on just £1 a day for five days, we managed to raise over £27,000 for our FARM programme which will be used to give small farmers the tools and training they need to provide for themselves and their families.

It was tough to deal with the hunger and the lack of meal variety, but this is now a distant memory for us. For the 1.4 billion people in extreme poverty who live on just £1 or less every day, however, this is just the start of their problems. Because those who live in extreme poverty don’t just have to pay for their food but also their drinking water, shelter, education and medical needs.

The efforts of you and the thousands of others who took part in this challenge around the world are helping to change that reality. We lived below the line to help others rise above it and we’ll continue to meet that challenge in whatever way we can.

newsRadIo 4 appEaL RaIsEs £10K FoR aNtI-chILd tRaFFIcKING IN MaLawIWe’re very pleased that our very first Radio 4 appeal has helped raise over £10,000 towards our Anti-Child Trafficking Centre in Malawi.

This money will help us continue to support young boys and girls who have been trafficked away from their home to work as herd boys and house girls.

The centre provides up to 120 children a year with a safe and caring environment to recover from their ordeal, as well as be able to receive an education, play with their peers and prepare to return home.

We have been supporting the centre since it opened in 2006 thanks to the donations of supporters from around the UK. The money raised through the Radio 4 appeal is vital for allowing this great work to continue.

We want to say thanks to all of you who listened, donated and helped spread the word about the appeal. We also want to offer our sincere thanks to the writer and broadcaster Rhidian Brook who presented the appeal for us. Rhidian is a familiar voice to Radio 4 listeners as he is a regular contributor to Thought for the Day. He is also the writer of the film Africa United, which we would definitely recommend if you haven’t seen it. He also spent spent nine months travelling around the world with his family to see how The Salvation Army was responding to the HIV/Aids pandemic so he’s no stranger to the great work that is being carried out to tackle injustice all around the world.

It’s still not too late to support the centre in Mchinji or our other anti-trafficking work. Turn to the inside- back cover to find out how you can donate, or go to www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01lstrs where you can still find the link to listen to the appeal.

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oUt oN thE FaRMcUt It oUtALOVE UK, The Salvation Army’s youth department, has launched a new campaign to help fight human trafficking.

The Cut it Out campaign is particularly focused on human trafficking to meet the demands of the sex industry and is looking at how we as individuals can fight against this and join with others in our communities to make a difference.

Through this campaign they are hoping to raise awareness of the global issue of human trafficking, to see the advertising of sexual services in newspapers made illegal across the UK and to see tighter regulations for the advertising of sexual services and pornography online. They also want to create an ongoing positive impact in communities throughout the UK through the formation of ACT groups and new members of Start Freedom (both initiatives of Stop the Traffik).

To make this a reality they need as much help as possible. If you want to join them in the

fight against human trafficking, then there are loads of resources on their website to

help you get started. If you’re involved in youth work then this is a great way to get your group engaged in social action and the issue of trafficking.

Hannah Kingston from ALOVE says:‘The ALOVE team believe that by all playing

our part we can make a difference in the lives of people trapped by human trafficking all over the world. Join with us to cut human trafficking out of our communities.’

If you want to raise your voice and take action against the injustice of human trafficking, visit www.salvationarmy.org.uk/alove/cutitout where there are loads of suggestions of what you can do to get involved. You can also ‘like’ ALOVE UK on Facebook or follow them on Twitter at @ALOVEUK for all the latest on the campaign.

We’ve been taking some fun furry friends out on the road with us this summer to talk all about our FARM programme. At both the Big Church Day Out and Greenbelt we have taken a real-life mobile farm so that festival-goers can meet all their farmyard favourites and learn about the problem of hunger and how we are responding through FARM.

We had to battle the elements – at one point

over the Greenbelt weekend the farm was in danger of turning into an aquarium! But the response has been baa-rilliant. Everyone loved coming and meeting the animals, milking Mavis – the real-sized but safely fibreglass cow – and chatting with us to find out how they can take action to get hungry with us.

Turn to page 6 to find out more about FARM and how you can get hungry with us too.

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On a recent trip to Kenya we met mother of five Lydia who lives in Kikesa, one of the villages that has benefited from a borehole as a result of WATERSHED. She tells us how the borehole has changed her life, and the lives of those in her community.

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Where did you use to collect water from before the borehole was dug?Before the borehole we used to go very far from here, two kilometres away, for water. We had to queue for the water and we wasted a lot of time. We would go and get water and then come home and find that everything was just standing still because the children are at school and you are alone. To then start the work again was taking a lot of time.

What difference has the borehole made to you?The borehole has benefited us because now little time is wasted. Our children used to suffer commonly from diseases and this was because of the dirty water. It cost a lot of money to buy medicines for the diseases, and when you were cured it would come back again because the water was still the same. When the borehole was dug it did a lot because now we are drinking pure water. Now our children are going to school carrying pure water, now we are doing garden work and looking after cattle, and the time which was wasted going there is used to do something else which can benefit us.

How has your life improved?Our life has been improved and changed, our children as they go to school they are clean, our people around this place they are healthy. The schools are getting pure water. Some of us who couldn’t go to the river had to

You can see a video of this interview by heading over to our YouTube channel – www.youtube.com/salvationarmyid.

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use the money we had to buy water. Now we can use this money to buy eggs and hens and keep them in the compound and that is a benefit. Now the money that was used to buy water has been changed, we can buy books for the children and things to use in the house and vegetables.

What do you do with the time you have saved thanks to the borehole?Nowadays we have gardens and we plant vegetables. You see our gardens are very large and when you wake up in the morning, after the children have gone to school, you go to the garden and do garden work, come back to the home, cook and do everything in the house. Sometimes even we women, we carry the things from the garden to the market and sell them, so the time that was wasted going to the river is used doing something else which can be beneficial to the families.

Do you have a message for the people in the UK?The borehole has helped us a lot and we say thank you to the people, the donors who have made this borehole. The borehole has made our life so simple, we say thank you for this. Our lives have improved, especially for the women because they are the ones who get the water. We thank the Lord. We have found that water is life because everything is going on well.

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Give water, and you really do give life to communities. It can take just £10 to provide someone like Lydia with access to clean water for life. Please give generously and help The Salvation Army GIVE WATER and GIVE LIFE to people who need it all around the world.

You can also now order our brand new WATERSHED ACTION PACK which will equip you with loads of resources to help you and those around you to take action.

Visit www.salvationarmy.org.uk/watershed to find out more or call our office on 020 7367 4777 to order yours now.

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Have you noticed that your food prices have gone up recently? The last months have seen food prices for ordinary people at their highest level ever. Some of this is due to natural factors (the worst drought in the US for 50 years has caused the price of grain to rise sharply) but some of it is due to financial speculators treating food as a commodity, or the increasing demand for biofuels. All of this contributes to the number of people going hungry in our world rising rather than falling.Well, we want you to get hungry too. Not hungry for more of the same, but hungry for real change. Hungry to stand up for the billions who aren’t able to grow or afford enough nutritious food for themselves and their families. Hungry to see small farmers able to adapt to the effects that the changing climate is having on their crops. Hungry to see our broken food system fixed so that the poor no longer suffer the most from high food prices.

In the last issue of DEVELOP, we outlined some simple techniques that we are promoting through

our new FARM programme to help small farmers make the best use of their land. These simple, natural and environmental techniques (such as composting, mulching and crop diversifying) help protect the nutrients in the soil and prevent water evaporation and thereby increase the quality of the soil which benefits the crops. We have just started a new project in Zimbabwe which is putting these techniques into practice and helping the community with their food problem.

In recent years Zimbabwe has seen a decline in agricultural production which has increased the number of poor households, especially in rural areas. At the same time traditional farming methods have resulted in decreased yields because the soil has not been protected. This has made the soil less and less

fertile and caused terrible erosion which has wasted both seeds and water.

The community in Mukodzongi were feeling this too, and approached The Salvation Army for assistance with their farming. They were struggling because they didn’t have access to modern farming technology or the knowledge of how to make the best use of their farm land.

To support the community in Mukodzongi we have joined forces with Foundations for Farming, an organisation started in Zimbabwe which aims to bring transformation to communities through faithful and productive use of the land. Their simple principles don’t require lots of equipment, but help to protect and preserve the soil and make best use of limited rainfall by implementing simple and natural techniques which help to increase the yields of the land.

This project will enable vulnerable families to work

GROWING KNOWLEDGEWe put our words into action as we promote farming techniques to people in rural Zimbabwe…

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• Make a donation – Support communities like Mukodzongi by making a donation to our FARM programme. You can do this by filling in and returning the form at the back of this magazine, or calling our office on 020 7367 4777.

• Order or download our FARM ACTION PACK – The DVD-Rom is full of videos, presentations, all-age session plans and loads of ideas for taking action. You can also order flyers which fold out into not one but two posters. Get in touch with us on 020 7367 4777 or [email protected] to request your free pack. You can also download all of the material from www.salvationarmy.org.uk/farm.

• Email us with the subject ‘I’m Hungry’, send your email to [email protected] and we’ll send you a few ways that you can take action on ‘Hunger’ in your everyday life, and also keep you up to date with any future campaigning opportunities.

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towards producing a surplus which they can then sell, and the income can help to pay school and medical fees. To do this, 30 male and female farmers will be trained by Foundations for Farming on the techniques and how to pass them on. These farmers will then be given a starter kit to set up demonstration plots where they can pass on this knowledge to other farmers in their village. As a result, 500 small-scale farmers in the community will end up with the knowledge that they need to increase their yields, help to end their hunger and improve their income.

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Empowering women is vital to overcoming poverty. Here is one way we are working to shift this imbalance in India.

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Self-help group members are empowered to tackle poverty

The Salvation Army all across India is helping to tackle poverty and gender inequality through local

self-help groups. These groups provide women with financial support and skills training as well as friendship, peer support and improved self-esteem which help them to tackle the gender inequality that is so ingrained in the culture.

In Eastern India, The Salvation Army is tackling a number of issues through these groups, including unemployment or low income, poor hygiene, education and health. The groups are also a great opportunity to draw attention to the resources that are available from governments, non-governmental organisations and banks. The group members are motivated and supported by the project staff to utilise their skills and direct them into helping generate an income for them and their families.

These groups are an excellent way of responding to the full range of people’s needs, be they economic, physical, social or spiritual, and to give the members hope for a better future.

Mrs Tlanghmingi is a member of one of these groups. Her husband died a few years ago, leaving her with four children to look after in very poor living conditions and without any income to rely on. She had to rely on relatives to look after her children so she could go out and try and find work, but she did not have a regular job so this was a constant struggle for her and her family. Mrs Tlanghmingi joined her local self-help group and received skills development training and learned how to prepare pickles and jams. She now sells her products and has also won first prize in a local agriculture exhibition. In addition to this she has now been employed by the local government’s food processing department.

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You can shift the balance of inequality that continues to hold women back all over the world. We don’t think it’s right that so many women in our world don’t have the same opportunities to earn a living as men and are therefore usually the poorest. That’s why most of our GENERATION projects focus on the empowerment of women. So by supporting GENERATION you are also supporting the fight for gender equality.By investing in this way we can see people previously trapped in poverty transformed into a generation of hopeful, empowered people who are able to stand tall, with their heads held high, having lifted themselves, their families and communities out of poverty.

Visit www.salvationarmy.org.uk/generation to find out how you can help shift the balance and help people work their own way out of poverty, or fill in and return the form at the back of this magazine with a donation for GENERATION.

THEsE GROuPs AREAN ExCELLENT WAyOF REsPONDING TOTHE FuLL RANGE OFPEOPLE’s NEEDs.

Mrs Manzuali has benefited hugely from her membership of another self-help group. She is also a widow and has two children. Being unemployed and without many prospects for earning a living, Mrs Manzuali struggled to pay school fees for her children. So she joined up with the local self-help group and there learnt how to make candles. She then started to make her own candles to sell. At first she had to borrow the equipment needed to make the candles, but with the profits she has made she is now not only able to pay for her children’s fees, but also buy her own equipment so she can continue to make candles and earn an income.

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technology by using community knowledge workers who could provide information and also help contextualise content. These workers were also provided with tablet computers which contained a mobile version of the website information which could be taken into communities during the sessions.

While developing the material, the team met with victims of trafficking that The Salvation Army is working with in Aizawl, India and Dhaka, Bangladesh. They also met with several women’s self-help groups to help develop an understanding of the issues and context.

As a result of this project, 3,500 people were reached in the initial three months of the scheme, and 14 alerts of instances of trafficking were discovered, with four of these resulting in the trafficked people being rescued and re-united with families. 650 police officers were trained in spotting signs of trafficking, and agreement was secured from the Police Training College in Chennai to include the bonded labour curriculum in their standard police training for new constables. This will reach over 12,000 new trainees as well as future recruits.

You can see the website that was created as part of this project at www.vivhaan.com.

Putting an end to trafficking requires many different interventions. Here we see how technology is helping to combat trafficking in India…

TACKLING TRAFFICKING WITH TABLETs

In the last issue of DEVELOP we told the story of Kali, a young woman who escaped the clutches of death at

the hands of her traffickers and instead was rescued by The Salvation Army and returned to her parents. But Kali’s story is just the tip of the iceberg of the problem of trafficking in South Asia. In recent months The Salvation Army, along with a number of other partners including Stop The Traffik, Dalit Freedom Network and International Justice Mission, have been working together on a pilot programme which has been funded by the Department for International Development called Vivhaan, a Hindi word which means ‘the first light at the beginning of a new day’.

The aim of this was to improve access to information about human trafficking so that vulnerable women and girls were empowered to make informed decisions about their futures. Specifically the project has been using a central website and information hub to give access to local opportunities for personal development and income generation, genuine migration opportunities and the risks and dangers of migration and potential trafficking.

Most importantly, this information was accessible through a variety of media (such as SMS and voice helplines) and the project also targeted vulnerable women with low literacy and/or no access to

Kali, just one of many victims of trafficking in South Asia

As A REsuLT OF THIsPROjECT, 3,500 PEOPLEWERE REACHED IN THEINITIAL THREE MONTHsOF THE sCHEME.

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The Salvation Army is starting a new phase of anti-trafficking response in the northeast of India, where the size of the problem of trafficking is alarming and continuing to grow. This part of India is also surrounded by four international borders connected to the ‘mainland’ of India by a narrow corridor along the Assam-Bengal border. This geographical positioning makes it highly vulnerable as a route for trafficking. The Salvation Army is responding to this by increasing awareness of trafficking at both an institutional and a community level. By empowering vulnerable groups and communities to be agents of change whilst developing a support strategy to restore and rehabilitate the most vulnerable, we can continue to tackle the injustice of trafficking and move closer to a world where everyone can live a life of freedom and dignity.

We need your support to continue to fund this vital work. You can donate now to this and similar projects by turning to the back of this magazine and filling out and returning the donation form and ticking the Anti-Trafficking box.

You can also visit www.salvationarmy.org.uk/humantrafficking to find loads of resources to help you fundraise for our Anti-Trafficking projects.

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This technology is helping to make information about the dangers of trafficking available to people who otherwise would not have access to it

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The El Redil Children’s Home in Asunción, Paraguay’s capital, has been supporting children to

a better future for many years. The kids who live there have been exposed to a number of risks due to poor social, cultural and economic conditions. Most of these children come from families facing extreme hardship and poverty, where no adult can take care of them well enough. Most of the kids wouldn’t have a place to live without the children’s home – except the streets.

The home offers these kids a safe, clean and comfortable place to stay, with a staff team committed to taking care of them. The team work hard to try and make sure the home doesn’t become a permanent solution, but rather a place where children can stay and grow up while also supporting the parents or responsible adults to improve and rebuild their lives to a place where the children are able to return home.

Isabel, Raquel and Pedro are brothers and sisters who have been living at El Redil Children’s Home for the past three years. They also have four younger siblings who are living with their mother a few kilometres away in the city of San Lorenzo.

Their mother tries to make a living by collecting plastic and cardboard from the street to sell. As she has

to spend all day in the streets, she struggled to provide for her children physically as well as emotionally. She would always be late home to feed them and they never had enough food. Thanks to the support of a social worker from The Salvation Army’s nearby medical clinic, the children had been supported to start school, but their mother wasn’t able to help them with their homework and they struggled with their learning.

When Isabel, Raquel and Pedro were admitted to El Redil they were malnourished and had worms and lice. But they were so happy to have enough food to eat, clean clothes, washing facilities and adults who had the time to care for them.

Racquel, who had failed to complete her first year of school back home, has turned into the best student in the home, with the highest marks in all subjects for the past two years.

The reality of life in Paraguay can be very difficult. But The Salvation Army is there providing support for children to help them move towards a better future.

A HOME FROM HOME

To find out more about our EMBRACE programme visit www.salvationarmy.org.uk/embrace. The home provides a safe place for vulnerable children

Children at El Redil have the chance to grow and improve their chances for the future

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Pedro is making progress too. He struggled to adapt to life at El Redil at first and found it very difficult to make friends, but now he is well liked and his marks at school are also improving.

Their mother is becoming more responsible; she takes an interest in her children’s education and is proud of their achievements. She is also starting to contribute towards the fees for her children. She feels supported by the home and is now a better mother to them and her children who still live at home.

Life is still very hard for the family. Their father is an alcoholic and a drug addict and has been violent towards both the children and their mother in the past. The centre staff have worked with the mother to try and find her own place to live, but she has been reluctant to leave her husband.

It’s hard for the staff at El Redil when the children visit home at the weekends, because of their home environment. But the good thing is that during the week the children have a chance to escape that reality and receive the love, care and support that they need.

THE HOME OFFERs THEsE KIDs AsAFE, CLEAN AND COMFORTABLEPLACE TO sTAy, WITH A sTAFFTEAM COMMITTED TO TAKINGCARE OF THEM.

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Over the years as we’ve been around the UK we’ve often been questioned about the old

tagline for our WATERSHED programme, which was SAVE WATER, SAVE LIVES. The question was this:

What difference does my saving water make to people living in drought-affected communities?

Well, in one way it doesn’t make any difference whatsoever. If you leave the tap running, it doesn’t make a river in Kenya dry up. The global eco-system is far too complicated to be so directly linked.

However, that doesn’t really do justice to the issue. After all, can we really say that we are ‘for the poor’ if we are so wasteful with our own resources? Earlier this year we met a number of women in Kenya who spend every day collecting water, often having to dig down into a dry riverbed to find water buried

underneath. Can we really look them in the eye and say that we care about them and want to support them if we don’t make any effort to conserve our own plentiful supply of water?

It’s not just about solidarity, though. Earlier this year much of the UK was in drought after 18 months of low rainfall . Despite our reputation for rain, our reserves were running so low that there was talk about resorting to standpipes if the dry period had continued, something not seen in the UK since the 1970s . This scenario, although thankfully not something that we have had to resort to yet, does highlight the reality of continued drought.

After all, usually when the UK is in drought, our taps never stop running, we don’t have to resort to seeking out potentially dirty water; all we have

In each edition of DEVELOP we’ll explore a different issue and the small changes you can make to live more ethically. This time it’s the turn of water…

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If you have to wait for taps to run hot, collect the cold water that precedes it to water your plants. This means that water that would otherwise have gone down the drain can be made use of.

Drink tap water rather than bottled water – it’s around 500 times cheaper. Chill it in the fridge and see if you can taste the difference.

Put a water-saving device into your toilet cistern to reduce the amount of water used per flush. Do this and you could save up to 15 per cent on your toilet’s total water use. (See www.hippo-the-watersaver.co.uk for more information.)

Turn the tap off while brushing your teeth – you waste around four litres a minute by leaving the water running.

Take a quick shower instead of a bath; be careful, though, because power showers can use as much water as a bath if run for more than five minutes.

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to do is banish our hosepipes to the back of the garden shed. This is simply because we are fortunate enough to have the reserves and the infrastructure to adapt to the whims of the weather – at least up to a point. However, with the way that the climate is changing, there’s no way of saying that this will always be the case.

So why should we save water when it flows so plentifully through our taps? Because despite this luxury, water is precious. It costs money to treat and get back into your taps once it’s disappeared down the plug hole. And, most importantly, because it’s a luxury that 783 million people around the world don’t have and we can’t be serious about changing that unless we can also begin to appreciate our own water.

So what are you going to do to try and reduce the amount of water you use?Here are our top ten tips:

You can find more water-saving actions in our WATERSHED ACTION PACK, available from www.salvationarmy.org.uk/watershed.

Dripping taps can waste up to 15 litres of water a day. Replace worn tap washers for a quick and cheap way of saving water wastage.

Install a water meter in your house to see just how much water you use. This will definitely help you become more conscious about your water use, as on average households with water meters use 15 per cent less water than households without one.

Keep a log of how much water you use every day and act on what you discover about yourself. Just flushing the toilet can use nine litres, so experiment with different ways of reducing and reusing your water.

Garden sprinklers can use as much as 1,000 litres of water per hour – more than a family of four can use in a whole day. If you must use a sprinkler, water early in the morning or late in the evening when evaporation rates are lowest.

Get a rainwater butt for your garden and use the water you collect for your garden and any houseplants you have. If you need more, collect used water from your bath, shower or washing up and store it in a plastic bin.

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So what are you going to do to try and reduce the amount of water you use?Here are our top ten tips:

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Christmas is once again approaching fast, but are you really ready for another year of stressful

present buying, complete with head-scratching, queue-jumping and general high-street chaos?

This Christmas, instead of just giving the latest blockbuster DVD, C-list celebrity fragrance or

must-have toy, why not give a JUST Gift?JUST Gifts help to support people in

developing communities all around the world to improve their own lives. Every JUST

Gift comes with a gift card and voucher to pass on to your loved one on Christmas morning, and the money will be used on a related project that will help to lift someone out of poverty or tackle injustice.

This Christmas your gift could help a trafficked child to be a child again, or

provide someone with clean water for life. It could give a widow the chance to set up

her own business and support her family, or help a small farmer grow enough food to stop his family

going hungry. Even the flashiest smartphone, tablet or games console can’t compete with that.So why not take the hassle out of Christmas shopping

and get your Christmas gifts from JUST Gifts? You can order your gifts by phone on 01933 445 445

or online at www.salvationarmy.org.uk/justgifts or by posting your order form to our address on the back cover. You can also get in touch with us on 020 7367 4777 or [email protected] to order a catalogue.

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The Salvation Army is a Christian Church and Registered Charity No. 214779 in England and Wales, SC009359 in Scotland and CHY6399 in the Republic of Ireland

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There are three ways to order your JUST GIFTS

PHONE01933 445 445 (Monday-Friday 8am-5pm)SHOP ONLINEwww.salvationarmy.org.uk/justgiftsPOST your order form to: JUST GIFTSThe Salvation Army International Development (UK)101 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6BN United Kingdom

We aim to process all orders within five working days

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cHanGinG details?let us knowAs you know we only mail out a couple of times a year – so it’s vital that we know when you move house so we can keep you up to date with the work we’re doing and the difference that your support is making.

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Like our Facebook page to keep up to date with all the latest news, information and ways to get involved in the fight against poverty and injustice. Visit www.facebook.com/SAIDUK and click the ‘like’ button to join the community.

Our JOURNEY overseas experience is undergoing a radical transformation, so that it is even more accessible to even more people. We are looking to increase the range of countries we visit and lower our costs, while providing an even better service.

We’re excited about these plans and we’re confident that you will be too. Our 2014 itinerary will be revealed in early 2013 but if you can’t wait until then you can contact us at [email protected] and get your name down on our waiting list. That way, you will be one of the first to receive details of upcoming trips and be able to sign up.

“It was amazing and humbling to see the kind of poverty that we had only ever seen on our TV screen brought to life in front of our eyes. We

saw tremendous need, but also an abundance of happiness, family values and spirituality. It has had a lasting impact on our lives, but

would we like to go again? Yes, definitely.”

In April this year, Ruth and Steve Field spent two weeks in Zambia as part of a JOURNEY experience. Here’s what they had to say about their experience:

support us reGularlYWe rely on all your gifts and donations which make our work possible. Thank you to all of you who give one-off donations or give regularly through direct debits. We really do appreciate your commitment and sacrifice.

The most helpful way for people to support us financially is through regular monthly donations. If you haven’t already, why not set up a monthly direct debit to us or, if you do already give through direct debit, why not increase your donation by a small amount each month?

Please tear off, fill out and return the form on the reverse and we’ll do the rest. A small monthly commitment from you can make a huge difference to:

• Communities who currently don’t have access to clean water, through WATERSHED

• Women needing to earn a decent living to support their families, through GENERATION

• Farmers who cannot grow enough food to live, through FARM

• Men, women and children who are being trafficked and kept in slavery, through ANTI-TRAFFICKING

• Vulnerable children in need of love, care and support, through EMBRACE

You can choose to give to one particular area of our work if there is an issue you are particularly passionate about, or make a general donation so that we can use your money wherever it is most needed in our development work.

You can also make one-off donations through the post, over the phone or online — you can send a cheque, call us on 020 7367 4777 (Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm) or visit www.salvationarmy.org.uk/id to find out how.

The Salvation Army is a Christian Church and registered Charity Central Trust: Registered Charity No. 214779, and in Scotland SC009359 Social Trust: Registered Charity No. 215174, and in Scotland SC037961 Republic of Ireland: Registered Charity No. 6399CHY

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The Salvation Army is a Christian Church and registered Charity Central Trust: Registered Charity No. 214779, and in Scotland SC009359 Social Trust: Registered Charity No. 215174, and in Scotland SC037961 Republic of Ireland: Registered Charity No. 6399CHY

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