The drive is held each year in Britain during the second week of May, when thousands of volunteers post red collection envelopes to households around the country.
Working with poor communities, it trains people to deal with the effects of climate change and prepares them for the threat of natural disasters.
In 1957, Janet Lacey, the organisation's then director, decided to hold a “Christian Aid Week” to encourage public awareness.
During the 1960s, the threat of hunger, even famine, made agricultural development a priority in the poorest regions of the world, especially Africa and Asia.
[3] However the emergence of the Coronavirus Pandemic in the UK in March and the consequent lockdown led to advice in April from the chief executive Amanda Kwaze Mukwashi to not proceed with door-to-door envelope distribution and collection and associated face-to-face fund raising activities, instead encouraging online donations from the public.