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Welcome to GOAL
GOAL is an international
humanitarian agency dedicated to alleviating the suffering
of the poorest of the poor. We are a non-denominational, non-governmental
and non-political organisation. For more information,
click here.
GOAL responding in
Pakistan
GOAL's Emergency Coordinator,
Brian Casey, speaks with some of the victims of the floods
in Sindh Province, Pakistan, where GOAL is helping to deliver
aid
GOAL is established in Sindh province
in Pakistan and is providing life-saving support to some of
the millions of people most affected by the devastating floods.
We are working with local NGO HANDS to support the emergency
evacuation of the displaced populations by road and boat and
providing water and food to some of those most in need of
assistance.
Over the coming days, GOAL plans to continue this work and
distribute crucial non-food items such as clothes, blankets,
mosquito nets, cooking equipment and plastic sheeting for
emergency shelter, while other assistance will be provided
in the form of sanitation and medical support.
Up to three million people have been affected in Sindh province
alone since the disaster began. Hundreds of thousands of people
have been displaced by the floods in the province, the majority
of them in the north, where GOAL is working.
More than 1,600 people have been confirmed dead across the
country. Between 15 and 20 million people have been affected
in total and four million have been made homeless.
GOAL ramps up aid
efforts in Niger
GOAL's Country Director in Niger,
Arjan Ottens, at a
GOAL-supported therapeutic feeding centre to treat
those suffering from severe malnutrition
GOAL has expanded its emergency relief
efforts in Niger, which is facing into a food and nutritional
crisis that has already left three million people on the verge
of starvation.
We are now supporting more than 20,000 of the most vulnerable
people living in the worst affected areas by providing them
with unconditional cash contributions to help them combat
the effects of the poor harvest and avoid selling off their
livestock in an effort to survive the current lean season.
We are also supporting walk-in therapeutic and supplementary
feeding centres to treat severe and moderate malnutrition
in the Mirriah department, Zinder region, in the south of
the country.
GOAL is
supporting the expansion of a 90-bed in-patient therapeutic
feeding centre to 120 beds at Mirriah Departmental Hospital,
and is providing vital equipment to help increase capacity.
We continue to provide
help in Haiti
GOAL is continuing to
provide relief to some of the most vulnerable people in Haiti.
For donations to help GOAL's Haiti response, please click
here; contact
GOAL UK at 7, Hanson St., London W1W 6TE, or phone 0207 631
3196.
GOAL builds 1,000 houses
for poor in Uganda
Paul
Kimbugwe gets a hug from older brother Richard outside their
new GOAL house in Masaka, Southern Uganda. Both of the boys’
parents succumbed to AIDS and they had been living in the
hut in the background. Their new home provides shelter, warmth,
water and sanitation facilities.
To read more about GOAL's Ugandan housing project
Click here
Low Administration Costs
GOAL is proud that, since its inception in 1977, the organisation’s administration costs have remained exceptionally low. One of the ways we have achieved this efficiency is through the secondment of staff from several companies in the corporate sector. GOAL is indebted to these firms for their continued support.
 GOAL's
Annual Report 2007
Click here to view the 2007 annual report
To work towards
ensuring that the poorest of the poor and most vulnerable
in our world and those affected by humanitarian crises have
access to the fundamental needs and rights of life, such as
food, water, shelter, medical attention and literacy.
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