Financial Statements
What Partners Make Possible
Catholic Relief Services is strengthened by the fabric of our partnerships. As part of the Catholic Church family, we work alongside other Church organizations to assist the poor and suffering overseas. And CRS reaches out to other groups—religious and secular, governmental and nongovernmental, public and private—that share our commitment to alleviate suffering.
Forming and deepening partnership at home is also key to our mission. As the official international humanitarian agency of the U.S. Catholic community for 65 years, CRS engages American Catholics in our work around the world. Our largest partner group, our donors, has continued to respond with overwhelming generosity to the tremendous need among the poorest people we serve.
Our relationships with our partners make what we do more meaningful, complete and efficient. In fiscal year 2007, 94 percent of the money we spent went to programs that benefit the poor in more than 100 countries.
Following are just a few examples of what our partnerships made possible in the last fiscal year:
- Emergency relief in the aftermath of the Peru earthquake, and storms and flooding in Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia and West Africa.
- Antiretroviral therapy to 100,000 with HIV, and related medical care and support to an additional 250,000 people.
- Life-changing agricultural advancements to prevent a food crisis in the Great Lakes region of Africa.
- A third year of remarkable recovery from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
- Improved access to clean water in 79 Honduran communities.
- Promotion of breastfeeding to prevent malnutrition in Kenya.
- Job training to prevent human trafficking in Moldova.
- Conflict resolution classes for 140 community volunteers in Uganda.
- Sixty years of service to the poor with the National Council of Catholic Women.
