CAFOD is a major British charity that has been fighting third world poverty since 1962.

Campaign on Trade
One of the major causes of third world debt is an unfair system of global trade that bullies and squeezes the poorest countries out. Trade rules that are stacked in favour of rich countries and multinational companies rob the third world of trade worth $700 billion every year. You can help change these rules and reform institutions such as the World Trade Organisation with the CAFOD Trade Justice Campaign

Campaign on debt
A huge burden of unplayable debt is still destroying lives in the Third World. Money that could be spent on health care, education and food supplies is being drained away to pay interest on debts to rich creditors, such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Through CAFOD you can be part of a continuing CAFOD Debt Campaign and call on world leaders to finish the job started by Jubilee 2000CAFOD has a network of 12 Regional Organisers throughout England and Wales. The organisers role is to manage and support volunteers who give personal visits & talks and work at events to bring the concerns and work of CAFOD and its overseas partners to people at local level, especially in Catholic parishes and schools. Thanks to a grant from the Millennium Commission, CAFOD has selected 48 millennium awardees to visit Third World countries.  The Awardees can be contacted for talks, slide shows, help with campaigning, youth activities, and sharing ideas through music, drama, images and games.

Goma Crisis

The joint appeal for the people of Goma by British aid agencies has reached £1.3 million but the final count should top £1.5 million. The Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC) launched an appeal after Goma was devastated last month when Mount Nyiragongo erupted, sending a river of lava through the heart of the Congolese city. The lava destroyed the commercial centre, schools, medical posts, and left up to 150,000 people homeless. A quarter of the city was left beneath the hardened lava. The money will be used for the emergency relief effort and the long-term rehabilitation of the people of Goma. CAFOD hopes to use some of the funds to allow schools to reopen as quickly as possible.

Donate

Now you have read this project you may feel that CAFOD is in need of money to help people in third world countries all around the world. You can do this by donating money to them, there are several ways of doing this, and they are:

1. Go online to www.cafod.org.uk/donate
2. Send money through the post to: CAFOD
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3. Telephone 0500 858 885 (free phone)