Name: Tom Brett

*Social Action Research

*Amnesty International

*This is a very powerful poster that was created by Amnesty International in protest to abusive relationships. The aim is to bring global awareness because it is a problem that occurs in most countries around the world, it is also trying to change peoples opinions and to raise general awareness to make people realise the seriousness of abusive relationships and common they can be. The use of a mirror shows the true reflection of the relationship, it also acts as a way for the audience to see the action without being shown directly.

The client:

Open Doors is a Christian based organisation that helps persecuted Christians around the world find safety and support through supplying Bibles, training, livelihood skills and more. Open Doors was founded 60 years ago in the year of 1955, they started up here because a man named Brother Andrew smuggled Bibles into Eastern Europe because people were being persecuted against and being a Christian was seen as wrong. Open Doors manages to help those who are being persecuted and those who aren’t by distributing Bibles worldwide, in 2014 they managed to distribute about 3.1 billion Bibles. Open Doors also personally support victims of violence and disaster by dispatching themselves out into countries that have been on the wrong end of disasters, violence and destruction so that they can help families re build their lives by finding jobs, housing, and providing meals. Another way that Open Doors helps people is that they train fellow Christians and Church leaders so they can preach the Bible correctly and in the right language as well. As an organisation, Open Doors are mostly funded by donations made from the public, but even help from the public by going to these destroyed countries and supporting the persecuted victims.

The issues:

Open Doors aims to help every country and city where Christianity is heavily persecuted against. The latest issue that Open Doors is tackling is the whole Syria and Iraq crisis, ISIS have made Syria and Iraq warzones, causing a massive influx of innocent refugees trying to find homes or at least shelter in safer countries in Europe. Open Doors are trying to tackle this issue by asking people to donate money so they can supply food, education, and shelter to those fleeing from Syria and those who are stuck in Iraq. Open Doors are currently acting as a ‘lifeline’ to about 19,000 families in Iraq and Syria.Open Doors has a list of the top fifty persecuted countries around the world, number one being North Korea. Christians in these countries are being discriminated against, humiliated, beaten and even murdered. Open Doors are using donations that people have sent in to provide Bibles, training, education and support to those who are suffering and being persecuted against, in 2014 Open Doors managed to provide around 3.1 millions Bibles and other Christian resources, they managed to train over 308,000 Christians and church leaders to teach the Gospel, they also managed to provide education for 2,100 children and serve 356,000 people through community development projects.

The issues:

In the year of 2014 Open Doors managed to raise £10,146,687 which was spent on equipment to support those who are suffering, to train those who want to learn and teach the Bible to people who cant access it. Open Doors are trying to achieve a world where people are not persecuted for being a Christian, or any other belief for that matter, however that is an incredibly hard target, especially when the number of Christians is marginally outnumbered compared to the number of those who share a different belief and are willing to torture and murder Christians. A way for Open Doors to do this would be to lower the amount of countries that are in their top 50 list.

Facts and figures:

In the year of 2014 Open Doors managed to provide around 3.1 millions Bibles and other Christian resources, they managed to train over 308,000 Christians and church leaders to teach the Gospel, they also managed to provide education for 2,100 children and serve 356,000 people through community development projects, however they will want to increase the numbers in future years. To afford supplying these items, Open Doors has to make some form of income, through donations given by the public. In 2014, the organisation managed to raise over £10,000,000 which they spent on providing the supplies over £2,000,000 has been spent on supporting victims of disaster and destruction, over a million was spent on raising awareness and another million was spent on training people to teach.