Christian Aid

I think it's variable, isn't it? And there's some great charities.

I mean, I also did an internship, a voluntary internship with Christian Aid, where they do have nobody, no Christian Aid staff work in country, all the money is distributed via local NGOs.

And I think that's a good way of doing it.

But that wasn't going to give a career to me, you then end up as a manager in an office.

The nationwide campaign sees participating solicitors across the UK volunteer their time every November to write basic wills, waiving their usual fee in exchange for a voluntary donation.

The suggested donations are £120 for a single basic will and £200 for a pair of basic mirror wills, with proceeds supporting eight UK charities, Aid UK, British Red Cross, Christian Aid, Crisis, NSPCC, SCIAF Scotland, Shelter, and True Care, Northern Ireland.

Let's talk Letters to the Editor

Money and mouths.

Yeah.

There was that big thing, wasn't there? Was it Christian Aid

or one of those

charities? But I'm assuming it's worse now?

Start the clock.

Do you believe Benjamin Netanyahu, Itmar Ben-Gavir and Bezalel Smotrich about what's been happening in Gaza? Or do you believe the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry, the UN Special Committee, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, 14 other UN Special Rapporteurs, the former UN Humanitarian Chief, UNICEF, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Bet Salem, Gisha, Physicians for Human Rights Israel, Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam, Save the Children, Christian Aid, Action Aid, the NGO Air Wars, the NGO Action on Armed Violence, The International Association of Genocide Scholars and its president, Melanie O'Brien, the editor of the Journal of Genocide Research, Dirk Moses, the author of the book, What is Genocide? Martin Shaw, the leading Israeli Holocaust scholars, Omar Bartov, Amos Goldberg, Daniel Blattman, Raz Siegel, Shmuel Lederman, the Norwegian Refugee Council, the Danish Refugee Council, Refugees International.

the International Rescue Committee, the former head of Israel's military, Moshe Yalon, the former head of Israel, Shin Bet, Ami Ailon, the former deputy head of Israel's Mossad, Amiran Levin, and the former prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olman.

Who do you believe, them or the Israeli government? Who do you think is lying? All of them or Benjamin Netanyahu?

It was a wonderful service honouring communities, sharing stories, and it was presided over by Bishop Rosemary.

The address was given by Joseph Vambe, who is the Church Relations Manager at Christian Aid.

Many people asked to hear the Joseph sermon again, being inspired by it.

And so in this podcast, we have that opportunity.

Friday brings Dorset Mind's Access Wellbeing drop-in to the Quaker Meeting House from ten till four, with a sympathetic ear for anything from mental health to money, work, housing, and benefits.

At lunchtime, Christian Aid's committee serves its homemade harvest lunch soup at Shaftesbury Town Hall from noon till half past one, free with a donation jar.

Alfred free time.

Email hello@thisisalfred.com.

Mm.

And part of it's also outward-looking 'cause we support, you know, the big orga- organizations, the Guild, Christian Aid, International Justice Mis- Mission, Open Door.

So it's, yes, it's building inwards, but we're also bringing our community into the bigger community and say, there's more to life than just what's going on in our wee town.

Perfect.

Greenbelt has an online component, too, and for this conversation, Martín joined us from Amherst while I was at the festival in England.

A special thanks to Paul Northup, Jane Cookson, Joanna Booth, Stream7, Christian Aid, and all the volunteers and staff and audience members at the Greenbelt Festival.

And a thanks, too, to Garrett Sawyer and Jay Metcalf at North Fire Recording Studio in Amherst, Massachusetts, who hosted Martín for this conversation.

Brand-new episodes of Poetry Unbound will be back later on this year, and there are plenty of Poetry Unbound in Conversation episodes until then, as well as a great archive.