tzedek works regardless of race or religion with some of the poorest communities of the world providing direct support to small-scale sustainable self-help development projects for the relief and elimination of poverty

About Tzedek
Tzedek works regardless of race or religion with some of the poorest communities of the world providing direct support to small-scale, self-help, sustainable development projects for the relief and elimination of poverty.

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Tzedek's principal aims:

To provide direct support to small-scale, self-help, sustainable development projects. Tzedek is currently supporting projects in Africa and Asia.

To educate people, particularly in the Jewish community, about the causes and effects of poverty and the Jewish obligation to respond.

To support campaigns that aim to bring an end to global poverty.

Additional activities:

Volunteers 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.