Project Locations

Most of the working population in Nepal relies on agriculture for their living, and the national economy depends on remittances and tourism income. The earthquake in 2015, the recent COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns adversely affected livelihood of vulnerable households. The southern border of Nepal is bordered by India. People from the two places come and go freely. Criminals take advantage of the convenience of crossing the border to traffic in people illegally.

Since 2006, we have served the poor in Nepalthrough building water supply and sanitation facilities, increasing farmland production, and encouraging farmers to save and operate small businesses to increase family income. We also set up a resource centre in a community in central-southern part of Nepal to train local technicians, who provide technical and sales support to over 200 farmers in the community. In combating human trafficking, we helped victims trafficked to red-light-district in India to repatriate to Nepal, provided them with shelters and spiritual counselling, and helped them integrate into the community. In addition, we shared the whole mission with 100 Nepalese churches and encouraged them to set an example by personally taking part in it and serve the community.

In Hong Kong, one in five Hong Kong people living below the poverty line. Even following policy interventions, the poor population stands close to 1,100,000 persons, staying over 1 million persons for several consecutive years. Working poverty was a notable poverty characteristic of ethnic minorities, who experience continuous marginalisation and discrimination by the majority Chinese community.

Given the situation of Hong Kong, we strive to equip local churches to practice integral mission in poor communities. Strategies include a) understanding how CEDAR’s experiences of poverty alleviation and its resources contribute to the local churches’ practices of integral mission through in-depth research; b) walking with the church bodies to develop localisation of integral mission; c) providing training to the Christian groups who serve the ethnic minorities in Hong Kong, and encouraging inter-ministerial collaboration; d) encourage the Christian groups to do creation care reflection through different education activities, and to practice the role of good stewards in daily life. 

The majority of the population in Zimbabwe are farmers who rely on subsistence farming. They constantly face the threat of drought, coupled with the turbulent economic and political environment and the impact of COVID-19. The World Bank estimated that half of the population in the country is in extreme poverty. Many people only have one or two meals a day.

In response to the situation, we partnered with local churches in rural areas of the North and East to support small-scale farmers. For example, we provide them with fertilizers, seeds and goats, introduce conservation farming methods, engage them in sales marketing, packaging, saving and financial management to develop their livelihood. In the southern part of the country, we provide sex and reproductive health education, set up Child Protection Committees to advocate for children’s rights to the government and communities. This includes access to a birth certificate for every child and access to sexual reproductive health services in hospitals for teenagers. Having access to these fundamental rights and services help children grow up healthy.

Ethiopia is undergoing rapid urbanisation, however, a lack of well-planned infrastructure and good labour market cooperation led to emergence of urban poverty. In response to this, we provided food, clothing, sanitary supplies, as well as psychological support for children and their caregivers in slum areas in Addis Ababa. We also partnered with local churches to provide spiritual support to them. 

Moreover, we mobilised churches and communities in the Southwest to serve the poor. The ministry includes forming mutual aid groups, providing training on backyard gardening and sustainable farming, etc.

In Rwanda, more than 90% of the population believes in Christianity, and roughly 30% of them are Protestants. In 1994, a shocking genocide against the Tutsi occurred in Rwanda, taking away the lives of approximately 1 million people. After the genocide, Rwanda has been committed to studiously growing its economy. Although the poverty rate has lowered, nearly 40% of the population in Rwanda are still living below the poverty line. 

We support the local churches to serve communities in Karongi district, an area heavily affected by the genocide, in the western province of Rwanda. The church empowerment process consists of equipping members of the churches with skills to implement programmes like savings, agriculture, children and family strengthening to meet the needs of the poor. We also maintain and empower the Church Network Committees, established at the start of the project, to  continuously identify the needs of vulnerable communities and delegate ministries to focal people for implementation. 

Following the US troops' withdrawal from Afghanistan and being superseded by the Taliban, Afghanistan has reached an all-time low. The country's entire population of 38 million people is dangerously on the brink of plummeting into universal poverty. The United Nations has shown that the worst-case scenario would be 97% of Afghanistan's population falling below the poverty line by 2022, a distressing 25% increase.

Due to loss of livelihood, many parents cannot afford education for their children. This led to school drop-out and increased risk of exploitation, e.g. child labour, child marriage or child-trafficking. Among all children, those from ethnic minorities, with visual or hearing impairment are the most vulnerable. CEDAR and a local partner are providing education services to them such as training on life skills, braille or sign language, facilitating enrollment to public schools, training teachers to support students with special needs, after-school tuition, facilitating girls’ access to education through hiring female teachers, etc. Other than education services, CEDAR Fund and another partner are providing basic health care services to malnourished children and pregnant women who live in areas where health care services were not available.

Human trafficking is a severe problem in Thailand. It is estimated that there are about 610 thousand "modern slaves" in the country. They are often forced to engage in various illegal or unethical work under violence, including child labour, sex slaves, forced labouring for free to pay off debts. Moreover, there are hundreds of thousands of stateless people in Thailand. Most of them live in the remoted border, where they cannot enjoy the civil rights of education, medical care and social security.

In response to human trafficking, as online sexual exploitation of children (OSEC) has become more and more severe, we provide data analysis and related training for the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) in Thailand, also developing resources to assist the authority's investigation. For the development of the border areas, we built water conservancy facilities for the ethnic tribes in northern Thailand, encouraging residents to use the small open space next to their houses to farm, or breed pig or fish, etc., so that they will be self-sufficient. 

In addition, the local minority church mobilised the church and community network to advocate the land rights of the indigenous people and explored the relationship and practice of Christian belief of the management of natural resources.

As a multi-ethnic developing country, the conflict between the Myanmar military and armed groups in ethnic minority areas has never ceased since its independence. Since the 1990s, CEDAR has cooperated with Myanmar Christian partners to carry out rescue and development projects in many regions across the country and empowered community residents to respond to humanitarian and development needs. 

In the northern Kachin State, we provided emergency resettlement and multi-faceted support for the poor who were displaced by the war. We also promoted community development throughout the country, including setting up community centres in Yangon slums to serve poor local families and provideIT and other vocational training and microloans. Under threat of pandemic and political insability, we further provided food aid, covid-19 protection and emergency cash assistance. In addition, given the serious problem of human trafficking in Myanmar, we combated human trafficking in three aspects: saving victims, assisting the recovery of the victimized women's body and minds and maturing their livelihood, and contacting potential victims through outreach work and drop-in center to provide body check, medical and emergency assistance.

Bangladesh is a country often affected by climate disasters such as flooding and typhoons. Besides, women in Bangladesh have low social status and easily face sexual violence. In poor areas, the situation of parents "married off" their daughters as the brides of adult men, selling children as child labour, etc., is serious, making children lose the healthy growth environment and opportunities.

We pushed off Disaster Risk Reduction in poor areas near the Bay of Bengal in the south, mobilised residents to form disaster management committees and nurtured residents to develop alternative livelihood. In response to the issues such as child marriage and child labour in Bangladesh, we advocated children's rights in the poor area of Dhaka. We provided counselling and vocational training to vulnerable women who are sexually exploited. Moreover, we organised a cross-church network to build church promotion and work out the integral mission spiritually.

Read CEDAR's articles about Bangladesh

CEDAR has been engaged in poverty alleviation and development in China for 30 years. From initially supporting partners' work to directly executing projects, it has now become a collaborative team to promote the fulfilment of the overall mission of Chinese social welfare organizations and make the Chinese ministry more localized.

As most of the poor in the mainland are concentrated in a remote areas with poor infrastructure, we promoted community health education, AIDS prevention and care for migrant children in Yunnan. For example, we provided whole-person development for children, including a good learning and playing space, infectious disease prevention, etc. We also carried out AIDS prevention education and testing to let more people with HIV/AIDS seek medical attention as soon as possible and carry out community care activities. We also promoted community health management work, partnered with the local hospitals to provide first aiders training, and provided health knowledge training in ethnic minority areas.

Ukraine is in the east of Europe, bounded by Russia, Belarus and Poland. It is the second-largest country in Europe by land area, populated by over 40 million people. Ukrainians comprised more than 70% of the population. The official language is Ukrainian.

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, many civilian facilities have been destroyed, causing water and power outages, and that power outage continues to challenge medical services. CEDAR Fund supports partners to provide humanitarian aid, financial assistance, healthcare service and psychological and emotional support for the internally displaced persons in various regions of the country. 

A central European country bounded by Germany, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine and populated by 38 million people.

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, many civilians have fled to Poland for refuge. Large cities such as Warsaw and Kraków have almost reached their maximum capacity that they could not accommodate more refugees and needed to relocate the displaced Ukrainians to other cities. Funded by CEDAR Fund, our partners support families accommodating refugees in Poland by, for example, distributing necessities. Our partners also set up information counters in reception centres to provide services to Ukrainians who fled to Poland, and provide them with access to psycho-social and other resettlement support. 

Most of the working population in Nepal relies on agriculture for their living, and the national economy depends on remittances and tourism income. The earthquake in 2015, the recent COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns adversely affected livelihood of vulnerable households. The southern border of Nepal is bordered by India. People from the two places come and go freely. Criminals take advantage of the convenience of crossing the border to traffic in people illegally.

Since 2006, we have served the poor in Nepalthrough building water supply and sanitation facilities, increasing farmland production, and encouraging farmers to save and operate small businesses to increase family income. We also set up a resource centre in a community in central-southern part of Nepal to train local technicians, who provide technical and sales support to over 200 farmers in the community. In combating human trafficking, we helped victims trafficked to red-light-district in India to repatriate to Nepal, provided them with shelters and spiritual counselling, and helped them integrate into the community. In addition, we shared the whole mission with 100 Nepalese churches and encouraged them to set an example by personally taking part in it and serve the community.

In Hong Kong, one in five Hong Kong people living below the poverty line. Even following policy interventions, the poor population stands close to 1,100,000 persons, staying over 1 million persons for several consecutive years. Working poverty was a notable poverty characteristic of ethnic minorities, who experience continuous marginalisation and discrimination by the majority Chinese community.

Given the situation of Hong Kong, we strive to equip local churches to practice integral mission in poor communities. Strategies include a) understanding how CEDAR’s experiences of poverty alleviation and its resources contribute to the local churches’ practices of integral mission through in-depth research; b) walking with the church bodies to develop localisation of integral mission; c) providing training to the Christian groups who serve the ethnic minorities in Hong Kong, and encouraging inter-ministerial collaboration; d) encourage the Christian groups to do creation care reflection through different education activities, and to practice the role of good stewards in daily life. 

The majority of the population in Zimbabwe are farmers who rely on subsistence farming. They constantly face the threat of drought, coupled with the turbulent economic and political environment and the impact of COVID-19. The World Bank estimated that half of the population in the country is in extreme poverty. Many people only have one or two meals a day.

In response to the situation, we partnered with local churches in rural areas of the North and East to support small-scale farmers. For example, we provide them with fertilizers, seeds and goats, introduce conservation farming methods, engage them in sales marketing, packaging, saving and financial management to develop their livelihood. In the southern part of the country, we provide sex and reproductive health education, set up Child Protection Committees to advocate for children’s rights to the government and communities. This includes access to a birth certificate for every child and access to sexual reproductive health services in hospitals for teenagers. Having access to these fundamental rights and services help children grow up healthy.

Ethiopia is undergoing rapid urbanisation, however, a lack of well-planned infrastructure and good labour market cooperation led to emergence of urban poverty. In response to this, we provided food, clothing, sanitary supplies, as well as psychological support for children and their caregivers in slum areas in Addis Ababa. We also partnered with local churches to provide spiritual support to them. 

Moreover, we mobilised churches and communities in the Southwest to serve the poor. The ministry includes forming mutual aid groups, providing training on backyard gardening and sustainable farming, etc.

In Rwanda, more than 90% of the population believes in Christianity, and roughly 30% of them are Protestants. In 1994, a shocking genocide against the Tutsi occurred in Rwanda, taking away the lives of approximately 1 million people. After the genocide, Rwanda has been committed to studiously growing its economy. Although the poverty rate has lowered, nearly 40% of the population in Rwanda are still living below the poverty line. 

We support the local churches to serve communities in Karongi district, an area heavily affected by the genocide, in the western province of Rwanda. The church empowerment process consists of equipping members of the churches with skills to implement programmes like savings, agriculture, children and family strengthening to meet the needs of the poor. We also maintain and empower the Church Network Committees, established at the start of the project, to  continuously identify the needs of vulnerable communities and delegate ministries to focal people for implementation. 

Following the US troops' withdrawal from Afghanistan and being superseded by the Taliban, Afghanistan has reached an all-time low. The country's entire population of 38 million people is dangerously on the brink of plummeting into universal poverty. The United Nations has shown that the worst-case scenario would be 97% of Afghanistan's population falling below the poverty line by 2022, a distressing 25% increase.

Due to loss of livelihood, many parents cannot afford education for their children. This led to school drop-out and increased risk of exploitation, e.g. child labour, child marriage or child-trafficking. Among all children, those from ethnic minorities, with visual or hearing impairment are the most vulnerable. CEDAR and a local partner are providing education services to them such as training on life skills, braille or sign language, facilitating enrollment to public schools, training teachers to support students with special needs, after-school tuition, facilitating girls’ access to education through hiring female teachers, etc. Other than education services, CEDAR Fund and another partner are providing basic health care services to malnourished children and pregnant women who live in areas where health care services were not available.

Human trafficking is a severe problem in Thailand. It is estimated that there are about 610 thousand "modern slaves" in the country. They are often forced to engage in various illegal or unethical work under violence, including child labour, sex slaves, forced labouring for free to pay off debts. Moreover, there are hundreds of thousands of stateless people in Thailand. Most of them live in the remoted border, where they cannot enjoy the civil rights of education, medical care and social security.

In response to human trafficking, as online sexual exploitation of children (OSEC) has become more and more severe, we provide data analysis and related training for the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) in Thailand, also developing resources to assist the authority's investigation. For the development of the border areas, we built water conservancy facilities for the ethnic tribes in northern Thailand, encouraging residents to use the small open space next to their houses to farm, or breed pig or fish, etc., so that they will be self-sufficient. 

In addition, the local minority church mobilised the church and community network to advocate the land rights of the indigenous people and explored the relationship and practice of Christian belief of the management of natural resources.

As a multi-ethnic developing country, the conflict between the Myanmar military and armed groups in ethnic minority areas has never ceased since its independence. Since the 1990s, CEDAR has cooperated with Myanmar Christian partners to carry out rescue and development projects in many regions across the country and empowered community residents to respond to humanitarian and development needs. 

In the northern Kachin State, we provided emergency resettlement and multi-faceted support for the poor who were displaced by the war. We also promoted community development throughout the country, including setting up community centres in Yangon slums to serve poor local families and provideIT and other vocational training and microloans. Under threat of pandemic and political insability, we further provided food aid, covid-19 protection and emergency cash assistance. In addition, given the serious problem of human trafficking in Myanmar, we combated human trafficking in three aspects: saving victims, assisting the recovery of the victimized women's body and minds and maturing their livelihood, and contacting potential victims through outreach work and drop-in center to provide body check, medical and emergency assistance.

Bangladesh is a country often affected by climate disasters such as flooding and typhoons. Besides, women in Bangladesh have low social status and easily face sexual violence. In poor areas, the situation of parents "married off" their daughters as the brides of adult men, selling children as child labour, etc., is serious, making children lose the healthy growth environment and opportunities.

We pushed off Disaster Risk Reduction in poor areas near the Bay of Bengal in the south, mobilised residents to form disaster management committees and nurtured residents to develop alternative livelihood. In response to the issues such as child marriage and child labour in Bangladesh, we advocated children's rights in the poor area of Dhaka. We provided counselling and vocational training to vulnerable women who are sexually exploited. Moreover, we organised a cross-church network to build church promotion and work out the integral mission spiritually.

Read CEDAR's articles about Bangladesh

CEDAR has been engaged in poverty alleviation and development in China for 30 years. From initially supporting partners' work to directly executing projects, it has now become a collaborative team to promote the fulfilment of the overall mission of Chinese social welfare organizations and make the Chinese ministry more localized.

As most of the poor in the mainland are concentrated in a remote areas with poor infrastructure, we promoted community health education, AIDS prevention and care for migrant children in Yunnan. For example, we provided whole-person development for children, including a good learning and playing space, infectious disease prevention, etc. We also carried out AIDS prevention education and testing to let more people with HIV/AIDS seek medical attention as soon as possible and carry out community care activities. We also promoted community health management work, partnered with the local hospitals to provide first aiders training, and provided health knowledge training in ethnic minority areas.

Ukraine is in the east of Europe, bounded by Russia, Belarus and Poland. It is the second-largest country in Europe by land area, populated by over 40 million people. Ukrainians comprised more than 70% of the population. The official language is Ukrainian.

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, many civilian facilities have been destroyed, causing water and power outages, and that power outage continues to challenge medical services. CEDAR Fund supports partners to provide humanitarian aid, financial assistance, healthcare service and psychological and emotional support for the internally displaced persons in various regions of the country. 

A central European country bounded by Germany, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine and populated by 38 million people.

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, many civilians have fled to Poland for refuge. Large cities such as Warsaw and Kraków have almost reached their maximum capacity that they could not accommodate more refugees and needed to relocate the displaced Ukrainians to other cities. Funded by CEDAR Fund, our partners support families accommodating refugees in Poland by, for example, distributing necessities. Our partners also set up information counters in reception centres to provide services to Ukrainians who fled to Poland, and provide them with access to psycho-social and other resettlement support.