April 2025 -MOSAIC MIDDLE EAST
Mosaic Middle East is a Christian charity working across ethnic and religious divides. It is known as the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East.
3,000,000 children in Iraq need humanitarian help. 1,000,000 Christians fled from Iraq since 2003. 3,100,000 refugees are now living in Jordan. Mosaic Middle East is working to foster peace in the Middle East, empowering communities to rebuild hope.
Mosaic Middle East is in partnership with St George’s Baghdad and funds its inspiring Medical Clinic. It is a centre for hope, help and healing in Baghdad. 1,500 patients are treated free of charge every month at the clinic. St George’s Church Baghdad provides much more than simply Sunday services and vital Christian community. As well as the church, the compound contains the medical clinic, a kindergarten and a cultural centre. This ‘oasis of grace’ is led by the inspiring Rev'd. Canon Faez Jirjees, and serves a congregation of over three hundred. All the work of St George’s comes under the auspices of the Anglican Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf. St George’s is the cornerstone of Mosaic Middle East’s work in Iraq.
Iraq is home to the oldest continuously practising body of Christians in the world and in the 1990s there were an estimated 1.5 million of them in Iraq. Since the conflict their numbers fell dramatically to around 150 thousand Christians remaining. As a minority group Iraqi Christians are often marginalised, unable to find employment and are struggling to feed their families. Many are still bearing the scars of conflict and are in need of medical care, therapeutic support and humanitarian aid.
May 2025 - CHRISTIAN AID
Christian Aid is a global movement of people, churches and local organisations. Everyone is equal in the sight of God. For over 75 years, this truth has inspired Christian Aid to stand together in solidarity with our most marginalised global neighbours, of all faiths and none. Poverty is an outrage against humanity. It robs people of their dignity and lets injustice thrive
In Jordan, Mosaic Middle East has partnered with local churches and NGOs to develop Olive Tree Centres: empowering community hubs, enriching the lives of displaced people of all ages and faiths. These centres give Iraqi Christian refugees a place to belong and to celebrate their culture together, provide education and skills programmes, and trauma therapy.
Christian Aid seeks to eradicate extreme poverty by tackling its root causes. It works with local partners and communities to fight injustice, respond to humanitarian emergencies, campaign for change, and help people claim the service and rights they are entitled to.
Christian Aid works with some of the world’s most vulnerable communities in 29 countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean.
The conflict in the Middle East has taken a devastating toll on innocent lives. Before the ceasefire was agreed, civilians endured unimaginable suffering as violence escalated.
Christian Aid was set up by the churches in Britain and Ireland to be their agency to tackle poverty overseas. Christian Aid works with agencies such as Church Action on Poverty to draw attention to the links between poverty at home and abroad through issues such as tax. Much of the work funded is carried out by local, faith-based organisations – including those run by Christians, Muslims, Jews, or people of other faiths – but it’s for the benefit of all. Poverty does not discriminate on the basis of faith.
Christian Aid Week runs from May 11th - 17th.
June 2025 - HEADWAY
Headway Portsmouth and South East Hampshire provides support to people with brain injury as well as their family members, carers, and interested professionals.
Although affiliated to the national charity, Headway Portsmouth and South East Hampshire is a separate and independent charity not funded by Headway UK. It relies entirely on its own funded contracts, grants and income generated through donations, fundraising and the trading of its two charity shops.
The charity supports those affected by brain injury to understand, adapt and accept the changes brain injury brings to their lives enabling them to achieve maximum independence within their own community.
Its aims are to increase public awareness and understanding of head injury and acquired brain injury; to participate in activities that will reduce the incidence of head injury and acquired brain injury; to provide information and support for people with head injury and acquired brain injury, and to their family members and carers; to promote co-ordinated multi-disciplinary approaches to head injury services; and to assist people with head injury and acquired brain injury to return to community living.
