Group gift: Essentials for families
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Fundraise in your parish for all the essentials a family needs this Advent.
£450 can buy gifts to support families living in poverty as they battle against deep-rooted inequality to build better lives for themselves and their children.
- Safe place to call home x2 - this gift can provide legal support to families facing homelessness to ensure that the are never without access to a safe home.
- Water for a family x2 – this life-saving gift can provide families with a steady supply of clean, safe water for drinking, cooking and cleaning.
- Healthy mum and baby x2 - this amazing charity gift can help pregnant mothers and new-born babies receive urgent medical treatment and provide extra food for children who are at risk of becoming malnourished.
- Goat that gives x2 - easy to feed and care for, a goat can provide a family with up to 12 pints of milk a week, that they can either drink or sell, and their dung makes excellent fertiliser.
- Marvellous moo cow - a cow can provide a family with milk and manure, as well as ploughing farmland. Extra milk can be sold at market and any calves can be passed on to help another family in need.
Case study: Affordable and sustainable housing in São Paulo, Brazil
‘I had the key to my apartment, and I was so excited. I wanted to shout in the street, I was overjoyed!’ Monica, Brazil
Monica lives in São Paulo, Brazil, with her husband and daughter. She grew up in the favelas on the outskirts of the city, in overcrowded housing that lacked basic infrastructure, but moved with her husband to the city centre in search of better employment.
Unable to find affordable housing, they moved into an abandoned hotel but were at risk of eviction by the local government. That’s when they started working with CAFOD-funded local partner Semeando, to learn about their rights to a safe home.
Monica said: ‘When I came here, my life completely changed. Living here has offered me greater opportunities to work and study.’
Monica campaigned with Semeando against eviction and eventually secured government funding to convert the hotel into sustainable social housing for over 176 families! Their new home will include green spaces and recycling points.
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Fundraise in your parish for all the essentials a family needs this Advent.
£450 can buy gifts to support families living in poverty as they battle against deep-rooted inequality to build better lives for themselves and their children.
- Safe place to call home x2 - this gift can provide legal support to families facing homelessness to ensure that the are never without access to a safe home.
- Water for a family x2 – this life-saving gift can provide families with a steady supply of clean, safe water for drinking, cooking and cleaning.
- Healthy mum and baby x2 - this amazing charity gift can help pregnant mothers and new-born babies receive urgent medical treatment and provide extra food for children who are at risk of becoming malnourished.
- Goat that gives x2 - easy to feed and care for, a goat can provide a family with up to 12 pints of milk a week, that they can either drink or sell, and their dung makes excellent fertiliser.
- Marvellous moo cow - a cow can provide a family with milk and manure, as well as ploughing farmland. Extra milk can be sold at market and any calves can be passed on to help another family in need.
Case study: Affordable and sustainable housing in São Paulo, Brazil
‘I had the key to my apartment, and I was so excited. I wanted to shout in the street, I was overjoyed!’ Monica, Brazil
Monica lives in São Paulo, Brazil, with her husband and daughter. She grew up in the favelas on the outskirts of the city, in overcrowded housing that lacked basic infrastructure, but moved with her husband to the city centre in search of better employment.
Unable to find affordable housing, they moved into an abandoned hotel but were at risk of eviction by the local government. That’s when they started working with CAFOD-funded local partner Semeando, to learn about their rights to a safe home.
Monica said: ‘When I came here, my life completely changed. Living here has offered me greater opportunities to work and study.’
Monica campaigned with Semeando against eviction and eventually secured government funding to convert the hotel into sustainable social housing for over 176 families! Their new home will include green spaces and recycling points.
