| Tzedek's Aims
Tzedek's principal aim:
To provide direct support to
small-scale, self-help, sustainable development projects.
Tzedek is currently supporting projects in Africa and
Asia.
Tzedek's secondary aim:
To educate people, particularly
in the Jewish community, about the causes and effects
of poverty and the Jewish obligation to respond.
Additional activities:
Tzedek organises an Overseas Volunteer
Programme in which Jewish volunteers work for up to eight
weeks during the summer at development projects in Africa,
Asia and Latin America.
What makes Tzedek Jewish?
In addition to drawing its support
from within
the Jewish community, Tzedek's work is guided by and
expresses vital Jewish
values. Tzedek understands tzedakah (charity) to be
a form of tzedek (justice).
Our work enables us to express the Jewish imperative
of acting as an or lagoyim
(a light to the world) and our responsibility to pursue
tikkun olam (repair of
the world). Maimonides said that 'the highest form of
charity is to take a
poor person into partnership' and this is now 'state-of-the-art'
overseas
development practice.
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