![More than 700 campaigners rallied before delivering anti-poverty messages to every EU embassy in London [CAFOD]](/var/storage/images/media_folder/cafod/images/campaign_images/trade_justice_campaign_images/embassy_bus/199633-2-eng-GB/embassy_bus_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)
![Fatna (right) brings home wood that she and some neighbours have harvested from outside the camp in Kubum, south Darfur [Paul Jeffery/ACT/Caritas]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/where-we-work/sudan/images/fatna-right-brings-home-wood/247664-2-eng-GB/fatna-right-brings-home-wood_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)
![Niccollette and Shrirvanie film the aftermath of the Guyanan floods, with support from CAFOD partner Guyana Human Rights Association [CAFOD]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/what-we-do/communications/images/after-guyana-floods/679742-1-eng-GB/after-guyana-floods_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)
Emergencies
![Fatna (right) brings home wood that she and some neighbours have harvested from outside the camp in Kubum, south Darfur [Paul Jeffery/ACT/Caritas]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/where-we-work/sudan/images/fatna-right-brings-home-wood/247664-2-eng-GB/fatna-right-brings-home-wood_1column50_12space_landscape.jpg)
CAFOD is responding to emergencies all over the world, reacting immediately by working through local organisations before, during and after the initial emergency.
As well as helping people to recover and build a better life, we also help local communities prepare for future disasters.
 Call for peace in the Philippines CAFOD partners are at the forefront of a relief effort to help those caught up in escalating violence in the Philippines |
![A woman waits for food aid in South Ossetia, Georgia [A woman waits for food aid in South Ossetia, Georgia]](/var/storage/images/images/europe/woman-waits-for-food/822742-1-eng-GB/woman-waits-for-food_1column00_08space_landscape.jpg) Local church helps Georgia's displaced CAFOD is keeping in touch with Catholic Church agencies, who are responding to the humanitarian needs of people displaced by the conflict in Georgia |
![A survivor of the China earthquake sits inside her tent in Xiange, Sichuan Province May 27, 2008 [REUTERS/Nicky Loh, courtesy www.alertnet.org]](/var/storage/images/images/china/survivor-of-the-china-earthquake-/739562-1-eng-GB/survivor-of-the-china-earthquake-_1column00_08space_landscape.jpg) China earthquake - helping survivors through partners Following the devastating earthquake that hit China on 12 May, CAFOD's partners have been responding to the needs of survivors |
![Tanjibul, 14, is a community disaster risk volunteer. He helps organise evacuations to the nearest cycline shelter when early warnings are sounded [CAFOD]](/var/storage/images/watch-and-listen/cyclone-sidr/panels/building-protection-from-disaster/photogallery-surviving-cyclone-sidr/tanjibul-14-community-disaster-risk-volunteer/797574-1-eng-GB/tanjibul-14-community-disaster-risk-volunteer_1column00_08space_landscape.jpg) Photogallery: Surviving Cyclone Sidr Watch how CAFOD is working with our partners in Bangladesh to help communities recover from the cyclone that devastated the country in late 2007 |
Caritas has teamed up with Action for Churches Together in Darfur, Sudan to help people displaced by the conflict |
The local Catholic Church were quick to respond in Central America when Hurricane Stan made more than 200,000 people homeless |
