Where We Serve

Africa

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Catholic Relief Services works in over 30 countries throughout Africa and strives to enhance human dignity, empower the people that it helps and strengthen and support partner organizations. CRS achieves this by working in the areas of food security, peace building, HIV and AIDS, civil society building, Emergency Response and health among others.

Stories From Africa

Hunger Deepens in Benin

A widow with newborn twins eats once a day. The babies aren't nursing. She has no money or home. Her only hope: the Missionaries of Charity.Read More »»

In Darfur, A Way to Grow Their Own

Through innovative fairs, thousands of farmers in Darfur receive vouchers for seeds and tools to help them grow critical food during uncertain times.Read More »»

Help for the Hungry

Working with local Church partners, CRS is providing emergency assistance to children and families suffering from drought in Ethiopia.Read More »»

Hope for HIV-Affected Children

Watch this video to learn how CRS is helping orphans in western Kenya who have lost parents to AIDS to be kids again.Read More »»

Making A New Kind of Difference

A CRS staff member taps his medical background to help orphans and other children impacted by the AIDS pandemic in Tanzania.Read More »»

An Oasis for Pregnant Women

A CRS-supported home in Guinea-Bissau means survival for at-risk mothers and their newborns.Read More »»

Strangers in A Strange Land

Vivian Manneh is a regional program manager for CRS in the Middle East. She reflects on the realities that refugees across the world face.Read More »»

A Dream Comes True

Microfinance projects outside of Burundi's capital create income for people like Jeanne Uwimana. "I have finally found a way to realize my dream."Read More »»

50 Years of Service in Ethiopia

Catholic Relief Services celebrates 50 years of providing relief and development assistance in Ethiopia.Read More »»

Hunger Deepens in Benin

A widow with newborn twins eats once a day. The babies aren't nursing. She has no money or home. Her only hope: the Missionaries of Charity.Read More »»

In Darfur, A Way to Grow Their Own

Through innovative fairs, thousands of farmers in Darfur receive vouchers for seeds and tools to help them grow critical food during uncertain times.Read More »»

Help for the Hungry

Working with local Church partners, CRS is providing emergency assistance to children and families suffering from drought in Ethiopia.Read More »»

Hope for HIV-Affected Children

Watch this video to learn how CRS is helping orphans in western Kenya who have lost parents to AIDS to be kids again.Read More »»

Making A New Kind of Difference

A CRS staff member taps his medical background to help orphans and other children impacted by the AIDS pandemic in Tanzania.Read More »»

An Oasis for Pregnant Women

A CRS-supported home in Guinea-Bissau means survival for at-risk mothers and their newborns.Read More »»

Strangers in A Strange Land

Vivian Manneh is a regional program manager for CRS in the Middle East. She reflects on the realities that refugees across the world face.Read More »»

A Dream Comes True

Microfinance projects outside of Burundi's capital create income for people like Jeanne Uwimana. "I have finally found a way to realize my dream."Read More »»

50 Years of Service in Ethiopia

Catholic Relief Services celebrates 50 years of providing relief and development assistance in Ethiopia.Read More »»