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Find out all the latest news about our work to help those affected by recent humanitarian disasters

CAFOD responds to emergencies all over the world, reacting immediately by working through local organisations before, during and after the initial emergency.

As well as helping people to recover and build a better life, we also help local communities prepare for future disasters.

A child waits in front of an improvised kitchen on the side of the road outside Mvurwi village, about 81 miles west of Harare - May 2008 [REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo, courtesy www.alertnet.org]

Zimbabwe: Be careful of false impressions

A Zimbabwean Catholic priest says that, despite supermarket shelves heaving with food imported from South Africa, the majority of Zimbabweans are still in need of food and basic medicines

Zimbabwe: Message of hope

CAFOD Salford and Birmingham diocesan officers Anne-Marie Coppock and Abigail McMillan have returned from a fact-finding mission to Zimbabwe with a message of hope

Child trauma centre opens in Gaza

Opening of new psycho-social centre in Gaza highlights child trauma

A homeless boy drinks water from a plastic bowl in Lahore May 21, 2009 [REUTERS/Mohsin Raza, courtesy www.alertnet.org]

Pakistan: Helping those forced to flee fighting

We have pledged £100,000 to help the 1.5 million people in Pakistan forced from their homes because of fighting

Young Tamil boys stand with other civilians behind a barbed-wire fence in the Menikfam Vanni refugee camp located near the town of Chettekulam in northern Sri Lanka April 29, 2009 [REUTERS/Stringer, courtesy alertnet.org]

Sri Lanka: Forced to abandon a life's work

Before the fighting came, elderly farmer Ganeshan says his life was “fairly comfortable”, happily working his 14-acre plot daily to feed his family

An audio gallery showing how your support has helped people in Pakistan following the earthquake in 2005 View in full screen player	Hatem Shurrab from CAFOD's partner Islamic Relief, is on the ground in Gaza where CAFOD has pledged £50,000 to help provide desperately-needed medical supplies View in a full-screen browser Read Hatem's blogs	Zambia: Setrida's story Photojournal of a grandmother in Zambia
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Published on 11/11/2005, last updated on 06/01/2009

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