GOAL 2009 Milestones

• GOAL expanded its emergency response efforts in Ethiopia in the wake of an appeal for food aid for 6.2 million people.

• Following earthquakes in Indonesia, GOAL distributed food, water and non-food items to approximately 1,500 people.

• GOAL provided clean water, shelter, hygiene materials and food supplies for upwards of 22,500 people in the Sunderbans of West Bengal after the destruction caused by Cyclone Aila.

• Post-election violence saw GOAL distributing 700 shelter kits to 1,200 families in Kenya.

• Over 21,000 children in Kolkata, India were direct beneficiaries of GOAL’s continued provision of safe drinking water, improved sanitation and appropriate hand-washing facilities.

• GOAL helped 12,000 people living in the slums of Freetown, Sierra Leone, by providing access to potable water and sanitation facilities, and giving training in improved hygiene practices.

• In November, GOAL completed building its 1,000th new house in southern Uganda for vulnerable families who have been affected by HIV and/or AIDS. GOAL also trained hundreds of local young people in house construction and maintenance techniques.

• GOAL ran emergency feeding programmes in Zimbabwe, and helped 6,600 people improve food security and food production by training them in new farming, food processing and food preservation methods.

• Thousands of vulnerable women and children in North and South Sudan have continued to benefit from primary healthcare services provided by GOAL.

Children in Malawi attend lessons at a GOAL-supported school