Poverty and Hunger
![]() | Prayer: The world can't wait (53.00 kB) This prayer asks for the courage to tell those who do not want to listen that action is needed and the world can't wait |
![]() | Prayer: Comfort and protect your people (50.50 kB) A prayer asking for God's love in times of hardship |
![]() | Liturgy: Our daily bread (30.00 kB) A non-Eucharistic liturgy on food and hunger, encouraging us to see the world from the eyes of the hungry |
![]() | Dedication of a hunger cloth (24.50 kB) Prayer of dedication of the hunger cloth can take place within a larger liturgy, or among a group gathering. Hunger cloths depict a set of stories, usually taken from the gospels |
![]() | Church teaching: poverty (42.50 kB) A selection of quotations from encyclicals, the Catechism and the Catholic bishops of England and Wales on the issue of poverty |
![]() | Scriptures on poverty (43.50 kB) Passages from the bible on the theme of poverty, including the GCSE scripture texts on poverty |
![]() Speak out for Peru's indigenous people Email the Peruvian government today, asking it to protect the rights of indigenous people |

![Young gold miner in Mongbwalu, DRC [Amelia Bookstein]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/where-we-work/d-r-congo/images/boy-miner/51674-2-eng-GB/boy-miner_0column75_06space_landscape.jpg)

![Mulu is carrying her child on her back in the traditional way with material made from leather and decorated with shells [Almaz]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/where-we-work/ethiopia/images/ethiopia-lives-carrying-child/8986-2-eng-GB/ethiopia-lives-carrying-child_0column75_06space_landscape.jpg)
![A girl stands in front of empty granaries at the village of Tangaba in northwestern Niger, where inhabitants ate leaves and grass to survive [Reuters/Finbarr O'Reilly, courtesy www.alertnet.org]](/var/storage/images/images/niger/empty_granaries/48735-3-eng-GB/empty_granaries_0column75_06space_landscape.jpg)

![Few elderly people manage to reach the relative safety of camps when they flee their homes because of fighting [Charlotte Brudenell ACT/Caritas]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/where-we-work/sudan/images/elderly-women/163418-2-eng-GB/elderly-women_0column75_06space_landscape.jpg)
![An Ethiopian woman collecting firewood [EthiopiaLives]](/var/storage/images/images/worship/woman-with-bundle-of-sticks-ethiopia/887992-1-eng-GB/woman-with-bundle-of-sticks-ethiopia_0column75_06space_landscape.jpg)
![Fighting for the rights of those abused during Peru's turbulent past [Never Again!]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/where-we-work/peru/images/human-rights-abuses/953724-1-eng-GB/human-rights-abuses_1column00_08space_landscape.jpg)

![(Left to right) Richard Cockle, John Corney, Lizzie Cranfield, and Gavin Baxter celebrate together after finishing the Great North Run 2005 [CAFOD]](/var/storage/images/media_folder/cafod/images/fundraising_images/sponsored_events/group_great_north_run_2005/10931-2-eng-GB/group_great_north_run_2005_1column00_08space_landscape.jpg)
![[Annie Bungeroth]](/var/storage/images/resources/worship/images/hands/1051400-3-eng-GB/hands_0column75_nospace_landscape.jpg)
