Why Tearfund is marching for Jobs, Justice and Climate
Alisha Sanvicens

Tearfund is passionate about the local church bringing about justice and transforming lives – overcoming global poverty. Because the financial crisis is disproportionately impacting the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people, we are responding with urgency.

On 2 April when the G20 leaders meet in London to tackle the crisis, Tearfund wants to ensure that they remember those most affected. That’s why Tearfund has joined the Put People First platform to put the pressure on; when the church takes its part in a broad alliance like this, it catches governments’ attention.

We need world leaders to ensure that economic systems and banking restructuring tackles inequality, poverty and climate chaos – issues that acutely affect the poorest people in society worldwide. Governments must provide enough resources to enable the poorest countries to protect their vulnerable people.

For a sustainable global economy we need reform of the institutions that have proved themselves unable to govern the global economy fairly or effectively – particularly the World Bank and the International Monitory Fund (IMF).

Churches have been historically crucial in bringing about social change. They represent a huge section of society. Often it is local and global churches in the thick of responding to calamity, restoring social cohesion and fighting poverty in the poorest communities.

Poor people need to be at the forefront of decision makers’ minds as they try to salvage a beleaguered and broken economic system and work to reverse the damaging affects on the environment. Tearfund is making sure that the church – both locally and globally – is actively involved in creating a just, fair and sustainable world that can benefit all in society.

March 26th, 2009 BOND