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We support Catholic Relief Services, Mercy Corps, Oxfam America , and the World Food Programmed in responding to hunger, malnutrition, and poverty caused by rising food prices. These groups are delivering nutritious food to those most in need and providing opportunities for families to increase their food production or incomes to purchase food.
We support Caritas International, which worked with local organization to respond to the acute needs of Nicaraguan , Salvadorian , and Honduran coping with widespread violence. The Caritas International and its partners provided medical assistance , food, shelter, and other critical relief needs to those living in severely affected slum areas in Central America and also supported efforts to help with economic recovery.
Victims of the Hurricane MITCH .
We supported the work of many organizations to meet immediate needs for food , clean water, sanitation , and shelter. All those organizations had strong presence on the ground and worked quickly to get aid to the victims.
Communities affected by Hurricane Katrina, Rita, and Wilma on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
We support the efforts of the American Red Cross (ARC) , which prepared hundreds of shelters for those who had to be evacuated from their homes after the hurricanes. The ARC also served 34 million meals and 30 million snacks and distributed hundreds of thousands of personal hygiene kits.
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