Who's involved
Faiths4Change www.faiths4change.org.uk continues Operation EDEN's focus on partnership.
Operation EDEN's initial partners were the Anglican Diocese of Liverpool, Northwest Regional Development Agency, Environment Agency and Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority. Further support was given by Sefton CVS, Groundwork and the Churches Officer for the Northwest as well as patrons from the local faith communities.
Faiths4Change is working with further partners across England's Northwest, including Learning and Skills Council, Job Centre+, Myerscough College, Mersey Forest, Burnley Borough Council, Liverpool City Council and BTCV. These organisations will be helping us to provide targeted vocational training and to focus projects on the areas with greatest need, including urban areas and with hard-to-reach groups.
Visit the Faiths4Change website www.faiths4change.org.uk and go to the Links page to find out more about the partners.
Why we do what we do
Our patrons expressed their reasons for supporting Operation EDEN and continue to support Faiths4Change:
'God almighty has given us
some control and authority over the lower animal kingdom and our environment,
but has forbidden us their misuse, exploitation and waste.'
Mr M Akbar Ali, Patron of Operation EDEN, Chair of Abdullah Quilliam Society
and a leading figure in Merseyside's Muslim Community
'The environment affects everything
and everything affects the environment.'
Dr Shiv Pande, Patron of Operation EDEN, former Chair of the Merseyside
Council of Faiths and senior member of Merseyside's Hindu Community
'Earthing Heaven is the destiny
of humanity.'
The Right Reverend James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool and Chair of Operation EDEN's Patrons
'In the Old Testament, Jewish people are taught to respect the earth, to look after it, not to exhaust it and in return we will live to enjoy the earth's bounty and reap and its benefits.'
Naomi Kingston, Patron of Operation EDEN and former Chair of Merseyside's Jewish representatives.
