The World Action Group exists to look at international issues and bring them to the rest of the United Church. These may be issues to do with development, justice or human rights. The group regularly arranges talks and social events. The group is responsible for setting up a 2 year project to help the church learn about a specific subject in more depth. This also has a fund-raising element to it.
The current project is an organisation called Phakamisa, a Christian project supporting Aids orphans and their carers in Durban, South Africa. It provides nursery education and travelling teachers for children too poor to pay the small school fees, ‘carer support groups’ for grandparents caring for their orphaned grandchildren, and self-help food-growing and craft skill projects.
