Welcome to the 2021-2022 Gift of Hope Catalog
Catholic Relief Services provides medical supplies and innovative treatment to the world’s poorest people.
We support health care and training for health providers through hospitals, local clinics and churches.
Too many children around the world don’t have access to quality health care. Routine health exams for children help monitor growth and development, and provide vaccinations to prevent disease. They also allow health care providers access to necessities, such as medical supplies, to diagnose and treat diseases, so that girls and boys have a better chance to lead healthy, happy lives.
Malaria is a preventable disease, yet at least half a million people—most of them children—die each year for want of inexpensive long-lasting insecticide-treated nets. Mosquito nets protect entire families so they can sleep safely and soundly.
A simple scale allows health care providers to weigh children at monthly clinics. Weight gives important insights into nutrition, growth and overall health. At the clinics, mothers also receive important information on how to feed and care for their children.
In poor communities, people with disabilities are often invisible and isolated, with limited opportunities to overcome physical challenges or participate in community life. A wheelchair can open doors to education, jobs and socialization that are crucial to well-being.
Prenatal and infant care is critical to ensuring the health of mothers and the very survival of their babies. In many remote, impoverished regions, CRS provides the only access to quality prenatal care, safe deliveries and follow-up care for mothers and young children. Programs provide parents with both health education on infant and maternal care, and nutrition.
Each year, more than 20 million children do not have access to basic vaccines that prevent childhood diseases, and about 1.5 million of them die unnecessarily. CRS works with partners, including local health ministries, to offer vaccines and link remote communities to vital health care.