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“livesimply is When I became director of CAFOD five years ago, I knew I was being invited to change at a deep personal level. I feel that the rooted in a just livesimply initiative, launched in 2007, has galvanised the Catholic and equitable community precisely because it touches on a desire for personal, politics, driven by spiritual change. It calls us to be different, to take steps to cherish the Earth and to overcome poverty and injustice. need, not greed.” Chris Bain CAFOD supporters are taking those steps.This year 50,000 people signed our Professor Tina Beattie, Roehampton University petition to clean up the gold industry. Meanwhile, thanks to the generosity of donors like you, we spent more than £40 million on our core work of long-term development, responding to disasters, campaigning for change and raising awareness about the issues that matter. When I visited Darfur’s refugee camps in May 2007, I saw how that generosity is providing water, food, shelter and healthcare to more than 300,000 people. But a more sustainable solution is urgently needed.“Without peace, what hope do our children have?” I was asked by one of the people living in the camps. We must all continue to urge governments to bring peace and justice to Sudan and Chad, to Zimbabwe, to the Middle East. Driven by our Catholic faith, may we act to change ourselves and bring lasting change to the world around us.

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Contents

pages 2-3 Welcome

pages 4-5 When disaster strikes

pages 6-7 Life on the edge

pages 8-9 The HIV activists taking a stand against stigma

pages 10-11 The fight for peace

pages 12-13 United we’re stronger

pages 14-16 Our faith in action

page 17 CAFOD’s finances

page 18 Where we work

page 19 Vision, mission and values

2 www.cafod.org.uk Face to face with Kibera’s champions of peace In October 2007 a group of young being teargassed.“I am very proud of the L Kenyans helped me see a green shoot of work we did,” says Kepha Ngito, 24, who +John Rawsthorne at the Bridges hope in one of the world’s poorest slums. helps run the youth project.“We reached for Peace project In Kibera, Nairobi, I was deeply impressed out to the most militant young people... by theYouth Building Bridges for Peace They became champions of peace.” project.Young people are encouraging their peers to work as peace ambassadors, This is peace being built from the ground “We reached out to bringing neighbourhoods together to upwards. It is typical of CAFOD’s work discourage crime and violence. for peace and reconciliation in so many the most militant places where conflict and war are young people and Just three months after my visit, a reversing human development. conflagration flared in Kenya following they became December’s contested election results. Witnessing the strength and courage champions of peace.” Up to 600,000 people were forced from shown by people like Kepha – the young, their homes and Kibera exploded into poor and marginalised – we cannot cease Kepha Ngito, 24, Youth Building Bridges for Peace project, Nairobi looting, violence and killing. in our work for a better world. Yet in the midst of this, the young people +John Rawsthorne, I had met stuck to their values, Bishop of Hallam, maintaining non-violent protest despite Chair of CAFOD

Review of the year 2007/08 3 When disaster strikes “In the theology of In the immediate aftermath of disaster, CAFOD’s partners are human nature there there, on the ground, delivering vital emergency relief. They stay is only one class: for the long-term, helping people rebuild their lives. And they children of God.” help poor communities better prepare for the next emergency. This year, CAFOD spent over £10 million helping people in Archbishop Oscar Romero, 33 countries cope with natural disasters and violent conflict. El Salvador Our work is saving lives, right now. Emergencies Emergencies

The devastating power of Cyclone Sidr left more than a L million families Cyclone survivors in homeless Bangladesh

Surviving the cyclone, Bangladesh

In November 2007, Cyclone Sidr struck disaster. Once the committee discovered Sidr Bangladesh, killing more than 3,000 people had the most extreme cyclone rating, they used and destroying 1.2 million homes. In the loudspeakers and an emergency-flag system to critical days immediately after the cyclone, evacuate people to the nearest shelter, which CAFOD partners were among the first holds 1,600.“Because of this, no one was on the scene.They provided emergency killed,”says Ashalata Sarder, 34, the committee’s relief including food, mosquito nets and chairperson.“The cyclone lasted from 6.30pm medical supplies to 150,000 people in to 1.30am.We stayed in the shelter all night.” the worst-affected regions. When she emerged,Ashalata discovered that But CAFOD’s life-saving work started her home had been flattened. long before the cyclone hit.To prepare for emergencies our partners built shelters CAFOD is now helping thousands of people and trained communities to set up early like Ashalata to get back on their feet. Our warning systems. partners in Bangladesh are providing more than 7,500 families with new houses built to better Caritas Khulna trained a village disaster withstand future disasters.We are also helping committee in Bagerhat, south-west Bangladesh, more than 3,000 families to buy essential to sound the alarm in the event of a natural supplies through a cash-for-work scheme.

4 www.cafod.org.uk “I thank CAFOD for helping us and I pray to God for more help.”

Alice Papa, Kenya Darfur: delivering the basics

L Since the conflict in Darfur began in 2004, more than 2.5 million people have fled Emergencies Alice Papa fled to a temporary camp their homes. This year, CAFOD spent more following widespread than £2.8 million helping over 300,000 violence in Kenya people in refugee camps in Darfur and Chad – providing food, shelter, safe water, sanitation and education.

Healing wounds, Kenya Pakistan: picking up the pieces CAFOD has helped almost 370,000 Kenya’s disputed December 2007 elections sparked violence that people to kickstart businesses, re-stock forced an estimated 600,000 people to flee their homes. Fifty-year-old farms, re-build clean water supplies Alice Papa (pictured above) was one of them.“Men came at and access ongoing medical services in midnight and told me to leave my house. Some had metal bars and the aftermath of the 2005 earthquake I was beaten.” which killed 73,000. Alice and her two children ran for their lives.“We left with nothing - no clothes or food,” she says.They ended up in a makeshift camp for hundreds of survivors who sleep under tarpaulin sheets. Zimbabwe: meeting the need CAFOD has provided 53,000 people in Kenya with food, CAFOD’s emergency appeal for the food medical treatment and money to travel to safer areas. crisis in Zimbabwe was boosted by over £1.7 million raised during Harvest Fast Day. Our partners are also helping people come to terms with their Our food programme has been helping traumatic experiences. Joyce Oneko, director of one such partner, 120,000 people in desperate need. Mama na Dada Africa, says.“Displaced people have high levels of anxiety.They don’t know if they will be able to return to their homes, or if life will ever be the same again.Their need for counselling is great.”

Review of the year 2007/08 5 Life on the edge

Life is fragile for people without a sustainable way of making a living. When the rains don’t come, natural disaster strikes or they are caught up in conflict there can be nothing for them to fall back on. This year, CAFOD worked to help people across the world build their own lasting solutions to chronic poverty.

“This is the opportunity I’ve been waiting for.” Livelihoods

Starting again, Colombia “We must Fierce fighting in Colombia has forced over start up a shoe-making business.“It’s the three million people – roughly equivalent to opportunity I’ve been waiting for,”he says. globalise human the population of Wales – from their homes. solidarity so as to For those caught up in the conflict, life Backed by funding from the European Union, CAFOD is helping 512 poor and include sharing is precarious. Many end up living in shanty towns on the outskirts of cities, where displaced families in south-east Colombia to the riches of the opportunities to make a living are scarce. start 24 community businesses which will provide them with a decent income. earth for the AntonioVelez, 33, lost his home and all his common good...” possessions after being threatened by guerillas. Working through local church networks in the “We had to run for it with just a bag of towns of Neiva, Garzón and Florencia, the Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez, clothes,”he remembers.“I thought my project provides the families with financial Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, children would die.” advice, training and money so that they can Honduras get viable businesses off the ground. For The family ended up in the town of Garzón, Antonio, it has been a chance to find security where they struggled to make ends meet. and start a new life.“Now I feel safe,”he says. A cobbler by trade,Antonio had the skills to “This project has given us a future.” make money,but no cash to buy the equipment he needed. Fast forward one year and life has turned around for Antonio.Thanks to support from CAFOD, he has joined six other families to

6 www.cafod.org.uk L Daniel Ubisse, left, tends to his beehive M Jacir Vendrúscolo is now an organic farmer Livelihoods

New horizons, Mozambique

Prolonged drought in Mozambique has led to severe food shortages. In a desperate bid to survive, many poor people have resorted to making charcoal which they sell for a small profit. Charcoal production involves chopping down and burning trees, swiftly reducing acres of fertile land to dry, sparse earth. On top of the food shortages created by drought, this spells disaster for small-scale farmers. Going green, Brazil

At the age of 86, Daniel Ubisse is raising two grandchildren. Inelde Bregalda, 43, and her husband Jacir He will do whatever he can to provide them with food and pay Vendrúscolo, 47, used to farm using chemicals for their school fees. Until recently, that was making charcoal. and fertilisers.“But something wasn’t right,” says But last year, with help from CAFOD partner Oikos, Daniel Inelde.“The quality of our harvests was poor.” took on a new occupation as a beekeeper. He works as part of The couple joined a project run by CAFOD a honey-making cooperative which guarantees members a partner the Pastoral Land Commission, and decent income.“My life is easier now,” says Daniel.“I earn more have learnt new organic ways to farm their land money and the honey cures me when I have flu because it has using bio-fertiliser, compost and natural healing properties.” repellents.“We sell our organic vegetables at the Oikos is helping 2,600 people in Mozambique same price as non-organic produce, which to earn a sustainable living through beekeeping, farming means that healthy food is available to and handicrafts. everyone,” explains Jacir.“It costs less to farm organically, so we still make a good profit.” The project is helping 40 families in Rondonia state in Brazil, to develop organic farms.

Review of the year 2007/08 7 The HIV activists taking a stand against stigma

“AIDS is to be Imagine growing up in a community where in schools to correct the myths combated by an estimated one in four people is HIV and misinformation that surround positive. For fifteen-year-old Oracio, pictured the virus. realistically here in his village Motaze in Mozambique, facing its this shocking statistic is a reality of life.“I have It is, literally, life-saving work.“We are seen a lot of people die from AIDS,”he says. succeeding in making HIV an open issue, deeper causes.” “When you see this with your own eyes, you where once it was taboo,” says Ernesto Pope Benedict XVI can’t ignore the consequences.” Matsimbe of Oikos.“People have begun to go for HIV tests voluntarily.” So far, Oikos Oracio’s father died because of AIDS in has helped over 300 people to get tested. 2003, leaving his mother to cope alone with “There are few health facilities in Motaze four children.The family struggled to so we provide transport to the next town,” make ends meet and often went hungry. says Ernesto. Now, thanks to support from CAFOD, life is beginning to improve. Oikos is working hard to improve services for people with HIV.In October 2007, Our local partner, Oikos, has provided it successfully lobbied the local government uniforms, bags, books and pencils so that to bring HIV testing for pregnant women to Oracio and his siblings can go to school. Motaze.“This will help reduce mother And to ensure that the family eats regular to child transmission,” says Ernesto. meals, Oikos has helped out with seeds and tools for farming. CAFOD’s approach to tackling HIV is improving life for hundreds of families in Recently, Oracio’s mother became one of Oracio’s village. It’s just one example of the the community’s 28 paid ‘HIV activists’. pioneering HIV and AIDS work that we As well as providing basic medicines support across the developing world. and practical support for 130 people with HIV, the activists give talks

25% of the Zimbabwe total care given Thanks to CAFOD, 10,000 HIV-positive people are receiving care from trained to people with HIV activists, who provide practical support and distribute medicines. HIV and AIDS in the world Brazil is carried

HIV and AIDS We are helping around 1,500 people living with HIV and AIDS to access legal out by the support to defend their human rights. Catholic Church Cambodia CAFOD has helped 450 children affected by HIV to catch up on missed schooling through a programme of accelerated learning.

8 www.cafod.org.uk “I feel for people who have HIV. AIDS doesn’t speak, you cannot see it. Any one of us could have HIV and often there are no visible signs.” Oracio Matavele, Mozambique I n AIDS and HIV

Review of the year 2007/08 9 The fight for peace

In war zones across the world, CAFOD helps those caught in the crossfire with life-saving humanitarian aid. But we know that this is not enough, so we push governments and institutions to promote long-term peace. And our counselling and reconciliation work helps communities torn apart by conflict to live side by side. L

Evelyn Amony outside her home in Gulu, Uganda

“I have been a victim of war. Resolving conflict I experienced terrible things. Now people need to talk peace.”

Healing hate, Northern Uganda “If we weren’t Evelyn Amony was 12 when she returned volunteer counselors in Uganda’s Gulu, from school to find her home surrounded by Kitgum and Pader districts to help people doing trauma soldiers.“I was told to throw away my books,” come to terms with their trauma. counselling, the she says.“They beat me, and I started to cry.” The Catholic Church in Gulu has been violence would Evelyn was abducted by Northern Uganda’s a vital part of the peace process.Archbishop escalate and Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) – rebels who John Baptist Odama has participated in groups and clans have waged war with the Ugandan official peace talks between the LRA and the government for more than 20 years.The government since they began in July 2006. would fight. In conflict has seen two million people flee short, it would their homes, and 27,000 children forced to “When there were doubts and hiccups, like when the LRA didn’t want to talk, we perpetuate fight or used as sex slaves.At just 13, Evelyn had her first baby to an LRA soldier. played our part,” he says.“We urged both the conflict.” sides always to think about the people in the “I was in captivity for ten years and 11 camps, those people that are suffering.” Father Opio, director of months before I escaped,” says Evelyn, now Caritas Gulu, Uganda 23. Like other LRA escapees, Evelyn was Now that peace is close, the Archbishop is deeply traumatised after her ordeal. urging the international community to support the people of Northern Uganda in If recent peace talks are successful, hundreds the wake of the war:“Although the guns of those held captive by the LRA may be have fallen silent, the fight against trauma, the released. CAFOD partner Caritas Gulu is destruction of social structures and poverty preparing for this potential influx by training are now the greatest challenges,”he says.

10 www.cafod.org.uk The right to justice, Colombia

Colombia has been ravaged by violent conflict between the state and illegal armed groups for more than 40 years. Thousands of people have been killed as a result. Sadly, the Colombian government’s ‘justice and peace’ law has done little to end the fighting. CAFOD and our partners are lobbying the Colombian government to ensure a better deal for victims, including the right to truth, reparations and the return of their stolen land. eovn conflict Resolving

“Peace is possible but it must be We are also working to raise awareness about what is largely a forgotten conflict.This April,Archbishop Rubén Salazar, based on justice.” president of Caritas Colombia, visited CAFOD supporters Archbishop Rubén Salazar, in Wales to collect signatures for a petition urging the president of Caritas Colombia Colombian government to protect the rights of those who have been displaced from their homes.Almost 1,000 signatures have been collected so far. Supporters also signed a peace flag which the Archbishop will present at an international conference on peace and reconciliation in Colombia in August 2008.

Review of the year 2007/08 11 “Individual actions United we’re stronger may seem insignificant but together the When the actions of governments, companies or international bodies trample on the rights of poor people, CAFOD – together small steps of with our supporters, partners and politicians – speaks out many people for change... can have an astonishing impact.” ...with the UK public

Call of Creation, Catholic In the Democratic Republic of Congo, gold is produced.Thanks to the efforts Bishops’ Conference of Honduras and the Philippines, gold mining is of CAFOD’s campaigners as part of our England and Wales fuelling environmental damage, conflict and Unearth Justice campaign, seven major human rights abuses. In the UK, £2 billion jewellery retailers have made public a year is spent on gold jewellery – so commitments to working towards the consumers can have an important say in how ethical sourcing of gold.

“We thank you for your help, your prayers and because you’re making visible Campaigns the work of CAFOD in our country.”

Archbishop Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Democratic Republic of Congo M British MPs face the ...with politicians reality of gold mining in Honduras CAFOD partner Caritas Tegucigalpa is spearheading a campaign to change the Honduran mining law, so it protects the interests of communities living near mines. In support of this campaign, and in conjunction with Development and Peace in Canada, CAFOD took British MPs Keith Hill and Stephen Pound, and Canadian MP Alexa McDonough to Honduras to hear from people directly affected by gold mining.

12 www.cafod.org.uk Climate change Climate change matters to CAFOD because it disproportionately affects poor communities, putting those who have done least to cause the problem most at risk of droughts, floods and extreme weather. It’s an issue of justice.

This year, CAFOD supporters made livesimply promises to reduce personal energy use and lobbied MPs to strengthen the UK Climate Change Bill. As a result, the government added annual milestones to the Bill, which will be used to monitor our progress in cutting carbon emissions each year.

However, reduction targets are still set too low and CAFOD continues to push for a Bill that is strong enough to help prevent dangerous global temperature rises.

They pressed Honduran government ...across the world Campaigns officials to reform unjust mining laws and L received public promises of ministerial Leaders of the world’s richest countries A bleak future? support for improvements. Keith Hill responded to 2005’s Make Poverty CAFOD is calling said:“There is no doubt about the History campaign with promises of more for action on rightness of the cause we are here to and better aid. Before the G8 meeting in climate change promote.The existing law… essentially 2007, CAFOD called for these promises allows for the exploitation of the entire to be extended to help meet the country without exception, unlimited use internationally agreed Millennium of water by mining companies and access Development Goals for tackling poverty. to private land without permission.” Eight bishops lobbied Italian, German and British heads of state and more than 80,000 people from these three countries ...with partners sent messages to the G8 leaders.The united voices of CAFOD supporters, Four years ago, CAFOD’s Clean up your partners and bishops from many different Computer campaign focused on workers’ countries helped keep the needs of poor rights in the electronic industry. CAFOD communities high on the G8 agenda. partner the Centre for Reflection and Action on Labour Issues (CEREAL) has kept up this pressure through a new L report into labour-rights abuses in Bishops from Mexico. It reveals how some electronics across the world workers are exposed to toxic materials, lobbied political safety rules are ignored causing accidents, leaders before and union rights are restricted. the G8 conference CEREAL is using these findings to counter specific cases of abuse and to challenge electronics companies to live up to their existing commitments and do more to protect the rights of workers in their supply chains.

Review of the year 2007/08 13 Our faith in action

Across England and Wales, CAFOD communities put their faith into action this year through fundraising, campaigning and education.

“livesimply Celebrating livesimply promotes a At Westminster Cathedral on 1 December 2007, spiritually 800 people celebrated the first anniversary of the enriched diet livesimply challenge. Leading the special Advent that is good service, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor said livesimply was “about an attitude of mind, for you.” an attitude of heart”. Julie Clague, Glasgow University Then in March 2008, over 1,000 people came to liveit! in Manchester, a major event with keynote speakers, live music, and a special focus on climate

Catholic communities change. Launched in 2006, the livesimply network has 59 Catholic member organisations and four ecumenical partners.Thousands of people have made promises to live simply,sustainably and in solidarity with people living in poverty.

“I saw poverty first-hand, so I wanted to raise money for a great cause.”

Justin Pasteiner, 17, from Hulme, did the Great Manchester Run in May 2007 after visiting shanty towns in Kenya

“You have a voice”

Hundreds of young people were inspired to live more sustainably when they heard a first-hand account of how climate change is affecting poor people in Guyana, Latin America. Guyanese teenagers Shirvanie Persaud and Niccollette Boatswain visited schools and churches across England and Wales in March 2008.They also spoke at the liveit! 6th form conference, and showed a dramatic documentary they had made about flooding in their country. Shirvanie and Niccollette are members of Rights of Children, a young people’s organisation in Guyana that CAFOD supports. Niccollette said,“You have a voice. It’s your world so you should make a difference. Don’t live for yourself, live for everyone else. Just a change in your lifestyle could save lives.”

14 www.cafod.org.uk Climate campaigner “For people in the UK, going green Rachel Tavernor, 19, took part in the Cut still feels like a the Carbon march. She walked 1,000 miles across the UK, talking to local lifestyle choice, people, businesses and politicians about but for people in the urgent need to reduce carbon emissions. the developing world, it’s a matter Rachel, a student and CAFOD volunteer, was motivated by the injustice of climate of survival.” change.“Those who have had least effect Shirvanie Persaud, 18, on the climate are suffering the most,” Guyana she says.“It’s not fair.”

“Today has been so informative Africa comes to Bristol because you always think: Children at St Paul’s Primary School in ‘I can’t make a Bristol got a vivid impression of life in Africa when their school celebrated difference, I’m just One WorldWeek in June 2007. one person.’ While the younger children turned But, actually, today the school hall into an African village, I have thought: the older ones learned how difficult life is without easy access to ‘I can do drinking water through a series of something’.” thought-provoking activities. Stephanie Clieve, 17, attended the liveit! conference Two members of the CAFOD schools team visited to help out – and were impressed and inspired by the school’s creative approaches to teaching some complex issues.

Walk the World

On Harvest Fast Day, schoolchildren up and down the country ‘Walked the World’, raising funds and showing solidarity with people in developing countries. Schools in Plymouth joined forces to raise cash for the people of Zimbabwe, assisted by CAFOD fundraiser Alex Pennington, dressed as a sandwich!

Review of the year 2007/08 15 Race to end poverty

In their bright green vests, CAFOD’s runners stood out among the 50,000 people taking part in the Great North Run this year. Our team of nearly 200 people raised a fantastic £60,000. Edmund Montgomery, a trainee priest, said,“It’s such a great experience, I’d recommend it to anyone. CAFOD’s work is invaluable in supporting the developing world and anything I can do to help is a pleasure.”

Gifts for the world

Comedian Mel Giedroyc lent a hand to promote CAFOD’s popular World Gifts scheme.Through World Gifts, CAFOD supporters can buy a whole variety of presents – from bicycles to piglets to a school classroom – to improve life for people in developing countries. Mel, who was promoting the scheme at Christmas, said,“It’s completely mad that in the UK we waste £4 billion on unwanted pressies when so many people in the world don’t even have the basics.”

World Gifts in action

Two CAFOD volunteers travelled to Tanzania and Kenya to visit projects funded by the World Gifts scheme. Duncan MacInnes from Norwich and Julie Longton from Manchester met children who had received ‘school kits’ thanks to the generosity of CAFOD supporters, who raised almost £2 million through the catalogue last year. Julie said:“The lasting impression that I have is how invaluable a World Gift is to people in Africa, to school children and to mothers and fathers trying to provide for their families.”

16 www.cafod.org.uk “Before I was like CAFOD’s finances a beggar, I had to rely on other people for Supporters are at the heart of CAFOD’s work. Your generosity help. But now is reaching people in desperate need around the world. Every pound you give really does make a difference. Thank you. I earn money I can help my children.”

Money talk Amelia from Mozambique has a new home and Our total income was £47.9 million a job thanks to a resettlement project that Almost three-quarters of funds came from supporters CAFOD supports.

“Thank you to 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08 CAFOD Income £m £m £m £m supporters on

Directly from CAFOD supporters 34.5 27.2 26.0 29.7 behalf of this Through the Disasters Emergency Committee 3.1 10.5 13.4 3.9 community. Supporter income 37.6 37.7 39.4 33.6 We wouldn’t From the Caritas network 2.6 4.6 3.7 4.2 have this Government and other grants 6.0 7.5 7.6 8.4 school without Trading and interest earned 0.8 1.3 1.4 1.7 your help.”

Total incoming resources 47.0 51.1 52.1 47.9 Theophile is headteacher of a school which CAFOD helped to reconstruct following civil war in DRC. 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08 Spending £m £m £m £m

Cost of generating funds 3.5 4.3 4.6 5.0 International grants 22.9 36.9 35.8 26.7 Operating and support costs 3.6 5.2 7.1 7.8 International programme 26.5 42.1 42.9 34.5 Policy and UK education grants 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 Operating and support costs 3.5 4.4 4.8 5.3 Education policy & campaigning programme 3.9 4.8 5.2 5.6 Governance 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4

Total expenditure 34.2 51.5 53.1 45.5

NOTE:This information provides an overview of CAFOD’s finances and is taken from the Trustees’ Report and full audited financial statement for the year ended 31 March 2008.A copy of the full audited financial statement is available to download from www.cafod.org.uk or by request from 020 7733 7900.

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