Where We Work
Africa
We partner with local communities in Malawi, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Ethiopia to build a better future together.
Priscilla, her husband Charles and their grandsons Obry (8) and Jayden (7) outside their home in Hwange district, north western Zimbabwe. Photo: Richard Wainwright/Caritas Australia
Our impact in Africa
Rosalie looks out from the deck of a passenger boat after buying shoes from a market in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Rosalie travels to Goma, the main market town in the region, by boat about twice a month to buy second-hand shoes. Photo: Arlette Bashizi/Caritas Australia
Anatercia carries corn next to her fields in Mozambique. Photo credit: Emidio Josine/Caritas Australia.
Woman With Her Family In IDP Camp In Northern Ethiopia. Photo: Caritas Australia.
Memory outside her kitchen in her family home in rural Malawi. Photo: Tim Lam/Caritas Australia
Thandolwayo collecting water in Zimbabwe. Photo credit: Richard Wainwright/Caritas Australia.
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A new handwash station has helped improve hygiene in Vellina’s village in southern Malawi. Photo: Tim Lam/Caritas Australia
With the support of our local partner in Malawi, we work to help families become food secure, support young people to participate in vocational training and improve access to clean water.
Maria reading with three of her children. Photo credit: August Lucky/Caritas Australia.
We walk alongside the most vulnerable communities to improve their access to water and sanitation, enhance maternal health and boost income.
Thandolwayo outside her home holding water In Zimbabwe. Photo credit: Richard Wainwright/Caritas Australia.
We partner with local organisations in Zimbabwe to address food insecurity and water access challenges, as well as enhance income-generating opportunities.
Anatercia helps her elderly grandmother on the farm where they grow corn, beans, sweet potato, casava and lettuce. The farm is over an hour walk away from home so when her grandmother can’t make the journey, other community members help Anatercia. Photo: Emidio Josine/Caritas Australia
From improving access to clean water to combating malnutrition, our integrated program in Mozambique helps support communities most in need.
Rosalie is seated, holding a tub of the ice blocks that she sells in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Credit: Arlette Bashizi/CAFOD
Our work in the Democratic Republic of Congo ranges from helping ex-combatants reintegrate to society to helping reduce child labour in mines.
Bute, a village elder living in southern Ethiopia. Photo: Zacharias Abubeker/Caritas Australia
As families in Ethiopia battle drought and the impacts of conflict and climate change, we work with trusted local partners to help communities at risk of hunger and illness.
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Thandolwayo's story
Life in her village in north-western Zimbabwe, wasn’t easy for Thandolwayo. Every morning she’d walk seven kilometres and risk being attacked by crocodiles as she collected clean water for her grandparents and family. Exhausted from hours fetching and carrying water, she’d then start her day at school.
Thandolwayo’s hope to be a nurse seemed almost impossible to realise, until Caritas Hwange helped the village install a solar-powered water system. It’s bringing new opportunities, new hope – and a chance for Thandolwayo to concentrate on her education and her future.
Caritas Australia partnered with Caritas Hwange to help the community to install two solar-powered pumps to draw the water up from the river, as well as two 10,000 litre storage tanks. Community participation in the project was overwhelming. Both men and women helped by digging and carrying stones, and water tanks. Thandolwayo’s grandmother also joined other villagers in participating in training in health and hygiene skills.
Now 16 years old, Thandolwayo is flourishing at school and is on track of following her dream to become a nurse.
Thandolwayo with her aunt in their home in Zimbabwe. Photo: Sr Ivy Khoury/Caritas Australia
Video: Thandolwayo's Story
Twelve-year-old Thandolwayo would walk seven kilometres each day, threatened by crocodiles, to collect contaminated water for her family. It looked like she would never realise her hope of finishing her education and becoming a nurse, until a Caritas Australia supported project created access to clean water helping Thandolwayo to stay at school and achieve a future full of hope.
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