What we do
As part of the Catholic community, we work with partners and the global Caritas family in four key ways:
Sustainable development:
Nobody wants to live on handouts. So we fund work to ensure women and men in developing countries can make a decent living, access fair markets, and meet their own and their families’ needs long term. In particular we’re:
- increasing access to clean water, education and healthcare.
- ensuring the private sector adopts fair working practices that support people making a decent living.
- empowering partners to change their communities through effective programmes and services.
- lobbying the UK government and EU to reduce emissions, and provide sufficient resources for developing countries to respond to climate change.
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Disaster and emergency response:
Rebuilding and safeguarding communities is an ongoing process. We fund work with vulnerable communities before, during and after emergencies happen to:
- ensure they have the resources to survive, minimise and recover from the effects of emergencies and environmental threats.
- working for peace and security in the communities we support to reduce the risk of violence, forced displacement or armed conflict.
- lobby the UK and EU governments to prevent, respond and resolve conflicts and emergencies.
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Give to our Emergency Response fund>>
Campaigning and advocacy:
We challenge those with power to adopt policies that promote justice and end poverty. We do this by:
- lobbying, petitioning, marching, and being vocal at key events.
- working individually and through networks to create a powerful voice for change and justice.
To do this we raise funds and mobilise action from the Catholic community and beyond, and we’re sustained by their prayer and commitment.
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Education in the UK:
We work with the Catholic Church of England and Wales to raise awareness and inspire commitment to end injustice and poverty in developing countries. We focus on:
- encouraging Catholics to give, take action and pray, both individually and communally.
- linking Catholics in England and Wales with communities in developing countries, based on dignity and equality.
- empowering and educating young Catholics to respond to the call for global justice.
Access our educational and prayer resources>>
For every £1 given to our Give it up! appeal this Lent, including Lent Fast Day, the government will donate another £1 – doubling your donation and changing even more lives |
884 million people do not have access to clean, safe water. Pray with us this Lent that waters may flow and injustice may be washed away. |
Help us turn the tide on water poverty. Join our Thirst for change campaign and ensure world leaders hear our call: taps and toilets for all. |
