The Centre for Social Concern
The Centre For Social Concern (CfSC)
is a project of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers).
In line with their vision and mission, the CfSC seeks
to promote Justice and Peace and the Integrity of Creation
(JPIC) and Interfaith Dialogue in Malawi and beyond.
The Centre was started in 2002 and in its short history
has been working on issues like:
A monthly review of the cost of living through the
Basic Needs Basket survey
The international debt burden, its causes and debt
cancellation
The linkage between the international trade system
and poverty and the rising cost of living in Malawi
The plight of the tobacco tenants and the promotion
of the passing of a bill regulating tobacco tenancy
labour
A survey on how people who have very low salaries
cope with the ever-rising cost of living
Marginalization of religious communities and (the
lack of) participation in development
Dialogue between Islam and the Catholic Church on
their social teaching
Conflict management and mediation, mainly in conflicts
involving religion
CfSC Publications
Some of the publications coming from
these projects can be found on the publications page
of this site. The latest contributions are the BNB
data and press release, the Press
Review and the homilies for
Advent and Lent.
The Annual Reoprts give a good idea
of the activities undertaken by CfSC and they can be
downloaded as a PDF file in a booklet format ready for
printing.
Annual
Reports |
In PDF
booklet format |
As a
Word document |
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Mangochi Interfaith Project
Code of Conduct
On the 5th March 2009 the Mangochi
Interfaith Project launched a Code of Conduct
for the forthcoming elections. The Code
of Conduct booklet in pdf format and the text
of the Code of Conduct can also be downloaded from
this site in Word. There is also an article
about the launch avaiable.
The Code of Conduct was also part of
a presentation
given by Tobias Jere to the "AFCAST Working Group
Meeting", in Dar - Es Salaam,Tanzania, between
4-7 May 2009. This document gives some good background
information to the elections that are to be held on
the 19 May, and also on the work that we do here at
CfSC.
Tobacco Tenants
For many years the Missionaries of
Africa have been working to improve the lives and working
conditions of Tenant Labourers in Malawi. CfSC has continued
this work with the Tobacco Tenants and Allied Workers
Union of Malawi (TOTAWUM) and they are trying to get
the Government to enact the draft Tenancy Labour Bill
into law.
To build awareness concerning the Bill
and the plight of Tobacco Tenants in particular CfSC
hosted several events March and April 2009. On 16 and
17 March 2009 there was a workshop from which a press
statement was issued. On the 17 April 2009 a press
conference was held to present a petition to Govenment
and from which there were two documents: one on the
presentation
of the petition and the second was a press
release. There is also an A4 poster or hand out entitled
'Price of Tobacco' that can be downloaded in pdf
or jpg
format for printing.
For further information about CfSC
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