Opportunity
International - “Opportunity International heeds Christ’s
call to serve the poor by providing opportunities for impoverished
people to transform their lives through microenterprise development—providing
small business loans and training so people can work out of
poverty with dignity”
Tear
Australia - “. . a movement of Australian Christians
responding to the needs of poor communities around the world. . . Rather
than establish our own relief and development projects, we
support the initiatives of other Christian groups, including
churches, relief and development agencies and community-based
organisations, which are working with the poor in their communities."
The
Micah Challenge - "The campaign aims to deepen Christian
engagement with the poor and to influence leaders of rich
and poor nations to fulfil their public promise to achieve
the Millennium Development Goals (UN sanctioned), and so halve absolute global
poverty by 2015."
Compassion
Australia - Compassion is a Christian ministry working
in partnership with local churches in developing countries
and sponsors worldwide, to help some of the world's poorest
children and their families. Compassion's ministry is: Christ-centred
child-focussed and church-based
The
GNU Project Homepage - The movement started in
1984 as a reaction to corporate control and exploitation of computer programs, programming and computer operating systems. The movement grew to finally
design the operating system, Linux which is arguably more stable and
efficient that Windows but freely available over the internet.
Linux was designed through a worldwide combined effort between
programmers and it is an inspiring, inclusive, cultural model for
a globally united labor force working together to progress
their cause.
24-7 Prayer - "The dream behind 24-7 is to turn
the tide of youth culture back to Jesus. It's a big dream - maybe an
impossible dream. We recognise that the Body of Christ in the West is
bleeding young people. Something has to change" |