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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

Churches Become HIV Clinics in South Africa

In South Africa, the devastating impact of HIV and AIDS led the Catholic Church to become a primary provider of antiretroviral therapy and HIV care.Read More »»

HIV Healing Now in Local Church Hands

The Church's success in South Africa is sending people with HIV to what may seem an unusual place for exceptional care and treatment—their parish.Read More »»

Niger Flood Washes Up Troubles and Memories

Crashing rains washed away everything but a family's future and an old man's stories of a better life.Read More »»

What We're Praying for This Week

Find out how you can help change the world in less than five minutes.Read More »»

2009: A Year in Photos

2009 may well be remembered by CRS supporters and beneficiaries as a year of blessings in the face of a global financial crisis.Read More »»

Nigerien Farmers' New Menace: El Niño

Find out how a little concrete and a fence spares nomadic farmers a desperate search for water during a disappointing rainy season.Read More »»

Cell Phones Boost Nigerien Literacy, Profits

Farmers in Niger are now learning to read and to check market prices with their cell phones.Read More »»

Livestock Gift Lifts Family Out of Poverty

Sipho Ncube is just one of thousands of Zimbabweans who have escaped poverty and built personal wealth by breeding poultry and goats.Read More »»

Faces of HIV Care

Throughout the world, CRS supports millions of people with HIV as they live fulfilling and productive lives.Read More »»

Churches Become HIV Clinics in South Africa

In South Africa, the devastating impact of HIV and AIDS led the Catholic Church to become a primary provider of antiretroviral therapy and HIV care.Read More »»

HIV Healing Now in Local Church Hands

The Church's success in South Africa is sending people with HIV to what may seem an unusual place for exceptional care and treatment—their parish.Read More »»

Niger Flood Washes Up Troubles and Memories

Crashing rains washed away everything but a family's future and an old man's stories of a better life.Read More »»

What We're Praying for This Week

Find out how you can help change the world in less than five minutes.Read More »»

2009: A Year in Photos

2009 may well be remembered by CRS supporters and beneficiaries as a year of blessings in the face of a global financial crisis.Read More »»

Nigerien Farmers' New Menace: El Niño

Find out how a little concrete and a fence spares nomadic farmers a desperate search for water during a disappointing rainy season.Read More »»

Cell Phones Boost Nigerien Literacy, Profits

Farmers in Niger are now learning to read and to check market prices with their cell phones.Read More »»

Livestock Gift Lifts Family Out of Poverty

Sipho Ncube is just one of thousands of Zimbabweans who have escaped poverty and built personal wealth by breeding poultry and goats.Read More »»

Faces of HIV Care

Throughout the world, CRS supports millions of people with HIV as they live fulfilling and productive lives.Read More »»