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Review of the Year 2007/08 I would like to send a www.cafod.org.uk gift to support CAFOD “We’re proud of this project and what we’ve Title: Initials: Surname: achieved. Because of your support, we have Home address: flourished. Thank you.” Postcode: Rosalina Amele looks through the window of her old home that was devastated in Telephone number: the Mozambique floods. She now lives (where we may contact you) in a new home, thanks to a resettlement project funded by CAFOD. Email address: (where we may contact you) Please accept my donation of: £ I enclose a cheque/postal order (please make donations payable to CAFOD) or please debit my: Visa MasterCard CharityCard AmericanExpress Switch/Maestro Delta Card no: (Switch/Maestro only) Patron Valid from: Expiry date: His Eminence, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor Switch issue no: Trustees Signature: Date: / / Right Reverend John Rawsthorne Right Reverend Kieran Conry Dr Mary Hallaway OBE R21773 Nicholas Warren Honorary treasurer Charles Reeve-Tucker FCA Board Robert Archer Jenny Cosgrave (from 13 December 2007) Clare Gardner Mark McGreevy Photographs: Annie Bungeroth, Guy Channing/Plymouth Evening Herald, If you are a UK tax payer, the value of your donations could Mary McHugh Bernadette Delaney, Claire Goudsmit, increase by nearly a third at no extra cost to you, just print Mary Ney (from 13 December 2007) Paul Green, Marcella Haddad, Fr James O’Keefe Joelle Hernandez, Paul Jeffrey, your full name here. Marcin Mazur, Laura Mtungwazi, Fr Timothy Radcliffe OP Boniface Mwangi, Thomas Omondi, Paddy Rylands (to 13 December 2007) Joan Pereruan, Carlos Alberto Ramos O., Taxpayer’s full name: ________________________________________ Victoria Santer Paul Smith/Panos Pictures, Jim Stipe, Tony Vassallo, Fr Frank Turner SJ Vanessa Vick, Richard Wainwright I would like CAFOD to treat all donations I have made from Director 6 April 2002 and until further notice as Gift Aid donations. Front cover quote taken from www.cafod.org.uk Chris Bain Evangelium Vitae My annual UK Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax is more than the tax CAFOD will reclaim in the appropriate tax year. “God entrusts us to one another.” Pope John Paul II Or please tick I am not a UK tax payer CAFOD is the official overseas development and relief Please send your completed form, with gift, to: agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales. CAFOD, FREEPOST, Romero Close, Stockwell Road, London SW9 9BR Review of the year CAFOD, Romero Close, Stockwell Road, London SW9 9TY Tel: 020 7733 7900 Fax: 020 7274 9630 Thank you for your support Email: [email protected] Website: www.cafod.org.uk Registered charity no. 285776 Donation line: 0500 85 88 85 Printed on 100% recycled paper. 2007/08 Registered charity no. 285776 Letter from the director “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. Chris Bain CAFOD director 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.
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