How Will your Money Make a Difference

The examples below illustrate how both small and large donations can make a difference to CARA and clients we support. However if you have a particular area of work which you would like to support, please contact us click here

For Our Advocacy Work

• £10 will pay daily expenses of one volunteers, who will in turn deliver 7 hours of advice to a client.
• £15 will pay for an hour of generalist advice.
• £30 will pay for an outreach worker to visit an elderly client at home.
• £60 will pay for one hour of specialist advice.
• £90 will fund the direct costs for solving a housing problem.
• £170 will enable us to advise throughout an average employment dispute.
• £190 helps us to support a family in debt to avoid having their home repossessed.
• £500 pays for a new leaflet to be distributed to recruit new volunteers
• £500 pays for a PC for a volunteer to use for advice work.
• £1,500 pays for the training of new CARA volunteer adviser.

For Our HIV/AIDS Services

"HIV/AIDS is an unprecedented global development challenge. It affects children, women and men, but also devastates households and communities, and threatens entire nations. CARA supports communities in Central African developing countries to play a full and effective role in the global response to AIDS. With your help, we can provide more support to more people." Ms Kiwisa MULWEMI, Director of CARA HIV/AIDS Services.

Here are some examples of how your donation could support the work of CARA and its community-based partners:

• £20 could buy 500 condoms - The condom remains the only technology available to protect against the sexual transmission of HIV. Yet demand for condoms is not met by supply, and the most impoverished communities cannot afford them. With education, support and consistent supply, people can learn to integrate condom use into their sexual lives, and protect themselves and their partners.

• £50 could help to train someone to deliver prevention, care and support services Limited national health care provision and inaccessible health services leave many people isolated from essential help and advice. When local people are trained to deliver services themselves within AIDS-affected communities, they can provide psychological and other practical support – for example, in relation to HIV prevention, treatment and meeting economic and social needs.
• £100 could help fund voluntary counselling and testing for twenty people - In countries severely affected by HIV/AIDS, fewer than one in ten people with HIV know that they are infected. Voluntary counseling and testing is an important prevention tool, as well as opening up opportunities for treatment, care and support for people who test HIV positive. People who choose to take a test benefit from confidential dialogue with a trained counselor, both before and after the test
• . £500 could help fund the production of educational materials for people who are most at risk either of contracting HIV or of passing on the virus In many parts of the world, it difficult to access comprehensive and accurate information and education on sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS, and how to prevent them. However, equipped with this essential information, people can learn about the steps they can take to protect themselves, protect their sexual partners and limit the further spread of HIV.

• £1,000 could help provide essential food support for ten people taking antiretroviral (ARV) treatment over the course of one year - Someone taking ARV treatment should eat a balanced diet; this helps maintain health, and assists in absorbing some ARVs into the body. Also eating regularly is important, because some ARVs must be taken together with meals in order to be effective. Good nutrition can help to extend the period in which a person with HIV/AIDS is well and able to work.

You are of course welcome to make a donation of any amount you choose – every penny will help our work. Please note that CARA must spend its funds in accordance with its mission and as efficiently and effectively as possible. We will therefore use your donation for such purposes as we consider most appropriate at any given time. We are committed to spending as much of it as possible on our work in developing countries.

Building Sustainable Livelihoods in the Central African countries.

• £20 per month of your money will help CARA provide income generating activities such as bakeries for women like Mandeni - Mandeni  who lives in the Congo , and the women who live in two nearby villages, Kasangulu and Ikinsi – no longer have to work in these conditions. Thanks to your donations CARA has built three new, properly equipped bakeries.

• £50 per month will help us provide clean water - Kukiba no longer has to spend four hours walking every day just to provide water for her family. Thanks to your support a well has been sunk and the water piped to the centre of the village of Endagiorgis so that now she only has to walk 50 metres. Now she has clean water and more time to care for her family.

• £100 per month will provide nutrition and literacy training for a community for a year - Women taking part in CARA’s nutrition and literacy training. This programme works with 1000 mothers who are faced with food shortages. Training includes demonstrations and information about new fruits and vegetables.
• £150 per month will help families like Euphrasie's to benefit from CARA ’s Income Generation Support - Kadima (19), and his sister Euphrasie (17), were determined to keep their younger brothers and sisters together after their parents died of AIDS. This was possible through CARA ’s Income Generation support. They rise early, Euphrasie makes doughnuts and Kadima takes them on his bicycle to sell in nearby small kiosks, before they all go to school. Kadima also plants corn and beans in their small plot of land. They have been able to buy blankets and food for themselves and their younger brothers and sisters and they continue to live as a family.