Breaking barriers at The Olympics: Why Pope Francis celebrates sport
As the Paris 2024 Olympics takes place, we’re taking inspiration from one of the many reasons Pope Francis celebrates sport: it can help break down barriers.
CAFOD's work in Kenya includes supporting communities facing recurring drought, a changing climate, and people living with HIV.
Kenya is a largely agricultural country, but fertile land is scarce. Competition for resources often leads to conflict and environmental damage as land is overused.
Kenya has a lot of potential for growth through trade and tourism, but bad governance and corruption are worsening inequality and conflict.
Your support is changing lives by:
Making sure that communities have access to clean water. Our local experts regularly work with communities on water projects, providing tools, trees and training.
Responding to emergencies by handing out food parcels and paying local people to do essential work. We have experience of responding quickly with your support during the East Africa drought and we can do it again.
Continuing to work with church leaders - who've been our long-term partners in tackling corruption - to raise awareness of coronavirus prevention and hygiene messages.
Giving practical support to people living with HIV.
As the Paris 2024 Olympics takes place, we’re taking inspiration from one of the many reasons Pope Francis celebrates sport: it can help break down barriers.
We answer your questions about the global refugee crisis and explain how CAFOD is responding.
Thank you for your donations, fundraising and prayers this Harvest. Hear from Ibrahim, our Emergency Response Coordinator responding to the crisis across East Africa.
Right now, in Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan, thousands of families are fighting a serious hunger crisis.
In the face of drastically unpredictable weather patterns, many see education as offering a kind of security that pastoralism sadly no longer can.
The current global food crisis is affecting millions of families around the world, but you can help to stop it turning into one of the worst humanitarian tragedies we’ve ever seen.
Millions of people are impacted by the food crisis in East Africa, as CAFOD Director Christine Allen witnessed while visiting communities in Kenya.
Twelve years since our first meeting, three children from Brazil, Kenya and Bangladesh and their families tell us how the climate crisis is affecting them.
In the UK, when we put money aside for emergencies we say we’re ‘saving for a rainy day’. In Marsabit, Kenya, people save for when there is no rain.
Meet Isacko. He is an aid worker for our Church network in Kenya. Every day he helps us to reach people like Kushi, whose life has been affected by drought.
CAFOD is the official aid agency for the Catholic Church in England and Wales.
With your help, we reach out to people living in hard-to-reach places, in war zones and those who are discriminated against.