Cord is passionate about the importance of relationships and the value that they bring to people's lives. Having sown the seeds of healthy, trusting and collaborative relationships, this harvest Cord is helping communities to reap the rewards. Please support Cord's 2018 Harvest Appeal. Read more
Call for Expressions of Interest Consultancy - Development of a Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) Plan New Trustees Read more
This community in Cambodia have been fighting for justice for nine years. Watch their story... Read more
If access to clean water and education; skills and livelihoods; legal representation and basic rights, is unfair, corrupt or exclusive, then sustainable development is unachievable.
And if this is a result of deliberate choices, then violence often follows.
For 50 years, Cord has worked with vulnerable people profoundly affected by violence – people trapped in poverty because basic needs are difficult to deliver, when insecurity and violence make progress all but impossible.
Cord’s practical programmes seek to reduce and remove violence – physical or structural; through prejudice or deliberate actions that hurt, harm, suppress or intimidate – in all its forms.
“So for me and my family, we are so happy to get this land title. I think that my family will have a brighter future.”
“What I learn from them is that even though they got the land title, their lives are still not so secure...people don’t trust the law even though they have their land title.”
“If you have land and shelter, people respect you. Without it, you have no dignity.”
“Before, it was not possible to imagine sharing a drink or a meal with a Batwa. Today, things have changed."
Reaping the Rewards. Cord's Summer Newsletter: The power of peaceful relationships in Laos and elsewhere. Read more