When we have freed ourselves from the psychic numbing that keeps
us from feeling the tragedy or experiencing the destruction of the
soil, water, air, and wildlife, we must learn how to go on living
with the pain without retreat or collapse. This is a call to faith.
Jack C. Ross, What Can I Do?
Almost all of CFSC's work implicitly connects with environmental issues.
Economic and ecological injustice and degradation are often the root causes of conflict. When Friends see a way to rebuild or redress a balance, they assist as able.
Currently, four themes of work are under way:
- Biotechnology Regulation
- Bududa Learning Centre, Uganda
- Care to Care: Medical Education in Iraq
- Uranium and Nuclear Issues
In the recent past, we have assisted partners in Nicaragua and Guatemala to enhance organic farming, strengthen women’s participation in the economy, and develop a ceramic household drinking water filter.
We try to understand this work through our social justice and human rights lenses. In 2002, CFSC adapted and distributed an education package first developed by the Economic Issues Programme of Quaker Peace and Social Witness (Britain YM). It contains a set of eight briefings that offer introductory information on a range of international economic institutions and issues.
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