If there is a disaster, Caritas is where you go to for safety, the neighbour who organises food and blankets, and the coalition of the good that pulls together global resources to support vulnerable people.

Caritas provided psychologists to help people deal with their pain. It began reintegrating child soldiers and provided medical help and counselling to rape victims.

Caritas supports over three million out of a population of 12 million in Zimbabwe. That work faced a major challenge when aid agencies were suspended temporarily from operating. Sadly, stopping aid workers from providing support was repeated in Darfur, in Sri Lanka and in Myanmar.

Caritas is part of one of the biggest programmes in south and west Darfur, helping 250,000 people. Caritas covers basic needs, including access to clean water, sanitary facilities and healtcare, and help to people to grow food.

Caritas has supplied over 100,000 people with basic food staples, around 40,000 people with non-food items such as blankets and mosquito nets, and thousands of other families with household hygiene and sanitation kits.

After the 2007 Mexico floods, Caritas Tabasco did emergency response training to ensure that if the floods ever came again, people would be better protected