The generous support of the Methodist Relief & Development Fund, and Methodists throughout the United Kingdom, helps us to tackle global poverty and raise awareness of global injustice.
Benedict Southworth, Director of WDM
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Welcome to the World Development Movement (WDM)
MRDF is proud to support the World Development Movement in its work campaigning against the injustices in the world. Only through achieving these structural changes will the work of MRDF's overseas partners become truly sustainable, and a better world made possible.
Kirsty Smith, MRDF Director
WDM is extremely grateful to be a long-term beneficiary of the Methodist Relief and Development Fund (MRDF). MRDF is an expression of one of the key aims of the Methodist church: to encourage members to be a good neighbour to people in need and to challenge injustice. MRDF makes small miracles possible for people living in the world's poorest communities through long term development, emergency relief and campaigning against the causes of poverty.
WDM was set up in 1970 as the campaigning body for various church groups and aid agencies. Working in solidarity with various partner organisations in developing countries, we aim to change the policies of governments and international institutions, so that they promote, rather than undermine, real solutions to global poverty. WDM has become a secular organisation but retains close links with the Anglican Church, the Methodist Church, the United Reformed Church and other religious bodies.
WDM Campaigns
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WDM is currently campaigning to bring about an end to climate injustice and to promote public solutions to the global water crisis. |
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WDM is a founder member and active participant in the Trade Justice Movement (TJM)... |
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...the Jubilee Debt Campaign (JDC)... |
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....and the Fairtrade Foundation |
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The Churches Committee of WDM established One World Week which now runs as a separate charity. |
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