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WHAT IS CAFOD?
CAFOD is the Catholic Fund for Overseas
Development, set up by our Bishops of England and Wales in 1962
The main aim of CAFOD is to provide a way
through which the Catholic Church here can respond to the needs of the developing
countries of the third world.
With CAFOD's help over 1,000 poor communities in 75 countries in
Africa
Asia and the Pacific
Latin America and the Caribbean
Eastern Europe
are working on projects to make things better for everyone involved.
The people in these countries decide what needs to be done themselves.
They get involved in all aspects of their work, and make surer no-one is left out just
because they have a different religion or colour or come from another country. They learn
all about the project so that they can continue to keep it going by themselves.
One of the main tasks of CAFOD is to help
people to ask why there is poverty,
hunger, sickness and unfair treatment so that we can
all work to change this.
These diagrams show the main categories of CAFOD's work overseas.
More than 100 people work at CAFOD's head
office in London and there are many more people who work in the 12 different CAFOD offices
around the country.
Every two years CAFOD runs a special
education campaign to help people learn more about a particular topic.
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