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Have you heard of CAFOD? The Catholic Agency For Overseas Development.
CAFOD is perhaps one of the best-known Catholic Aid agencies and works to alleviate poverty all over the world. Catholics sponsor it financially to do things like:
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Provide running water in villages
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Give greater access to medical treatment
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Educate and inform
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And its part of our Catholic calling to help people in need whatever their race, creed or colour. |
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Many people in our club are involved with: |
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Feeding the homeless through providing soup kitchens
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Visiting the sick and the elderly
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Assisting in schools
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By imitating the lives of role models we call Saints, many Catholics set aside part of their week to serve the poor and needy wherever they live and work. Have you heard of the Saint Vincent de Paul Society for example? It's a Catholic organisation which has thousands of members who selflessly offer their help as it is required. |
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Copyright - Simon Rawles/CAFOD. The feet of Ruzhdi Shahu, aged 2 yrs. Neighbours of the Hashimi family and the Shahu family live at the poorest end of a poverty-stricken community. They are dependent on begging to survive. Kombinat, Tirana, Albania. |
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Further afield at HQ in The Vatican, Rome, money is given in huge quantities to directly support projects helping people who live in trouble spots throughout the world, be they in war zones or in places picking up the pieces following a natural disaster. It's not just money which is sent to these people. Many Catholics volunteer to go directly to these places to offer their professional help. |
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In what ways do you put your beliefs into action? |
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Your guide for this section is Edwin. He is 20, and has grown up in Wales. Click here to read his story. |
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| This is a website of the Catholic Enquiry Office; part of an Agency of the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales |
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