Thought for the Week - 25th September 2022
Dear Friends, Each year at harvest time we support the charity Operation Agri (OA), a Christian organisation run mainly by volunteers and which had its beginnings in the Baptist Men’s Movement. The focus of this year’s appeal is called Vital Vegetables for Mozambique and OA is partnering with Oasis Global whose ethos is ‘a vision for community – a place where everyone is included, making a contribution and reaching their God-given potential’. Mozambique is a beautiful country with spectacular beaches, but it is very poor: ninth from bottom in the UN Human Development Index. 80% work in agriculture, but malnutrition affects many, with 50% below the poverty line. OA, whose strapline is ’Christian love in Action’, is helping women’s groups to learn market gardening, which means the vegetables they grow help them to feed families and earn money in communities that suffer from poverty and climate change. Women like Maninha Eusebio who says, ‘After training, we got seeds and started...