Bishops’ Appeal
When Bishops’ Appeal funded projects to increase food security and agricultural productivity, and to improve healthcare and access to water between September 2019 and March 2020, there was little sense that these programmes would soon be tested to the limits. These ‘tests’ came in the guise of severe drought, flash floods, and super-locusts and then, when communities were already vulnerable and with very few food and income reserves, they were forced into lockdown by Covid-19. Some projects have been put on hold and emergency responses put in place instead. Other projects have enabled communities to survive by…
