In Zimbabwe, hunger and thirst are stopping children from learning.
By donating today, you can help children stay in school by providing the food and safe water they need.
In Zimbabwe, hunger and thirst are stopping children from learning.
By donating today, you can help children stay in school by providing the food and safe water they need.
Tayla is 12 years old. She loves studying maths at school. But some days, she arrived exhausted after walking to collect water. With little food to eat either, she couldn’t focus in class and sometimes she didn’t make it to school at all.
Tayla wants to help people in the future, just as her parents have taught her to help others in her community. “I like to study and when I grow up, I want to be a doctor.” Tayla says.
But when children don’t have enough to eat or drink, they don’t just feel hungry and thirsty – they stop learning and the dreams they once had slip away.
Your donation can give children like Tayla the chance to learn and pursue their dreams. It starts with something simple: helping one child have enough to eat and safe water to drink at school.
Our local partners worked with Tayla’s community to build a solar-powered water system. Water is pumped from the ground to Tayla’s village and school.
The impact goes beyond a reliable, safe water source. The school can now water and grow their own vegetables. So, they can support their own school feeding programme to provide the children with nutritious school meals.
The local teachers can see the difference this water solution makes and want this to reach more communities.“I just hope that all the areas in Rushinga, all the schools, the clinics that are nearby, they can be provided with safe water because some areas are still facing some challenges of having water” Banonia – Teacher, Bungwe Secondary
This Family Fast Day, please help children like Tayla stay in school by providing the food and safe water they need to learn. Thank you.
£10 can buy a child a daily school meal for half the year.
£35 can buy the plumbing essentials to bring water to a school.
£100 can buy a solar panel to help power a water pump system.
Family Fast Day calls us to put our faith into action. Choosing to give monthly is a simple way for you to keep answering that call, all year round.
£2 a month can buy a child a year's school meals
£3 a month can bring a school safe water
£8 a month can help power a water pump
Your gift joins with others to stand alongside families like Tayla's - helping them build a better world for themselves.
Harvest is a time to give thanks to God for the gifts of creation and for the food that sustains us. It also reminds us that we are part of one global family. While we celebrate the food we have, we remember our sisters and brothers around the world who do not have enough to eat or safe water to drink.
Harvest invites us to turn our faith into action by sharing what we have and standing in solidarity with people experiencing poverty and hunger.
CAFOD’s Family Fast Day is a day when Catholics pray, fast and give to support people around the world who are living in poverty.
We take time to think about people who do not have enough food, water or other essentials, and we share what we have with them. It is a way of putting our faith into action and showing that we are one global family.
You can get involved by making a donation to our Harvest Appeal. Your gift can help people facing hunger and poverty around the world, turning our Harvest thanksgiving into practical action and sharing what we have with our global family.
CAFOD Family Fast Day this Harvest is Friday 2 October.
This date is recognised in the Catholic Bishops’ Conference Liturgy Office’s Liturgical Calendar for England and Wales.