Family Fast Day

Lent Family Fast Day is on Friday 27th February 2026.

Your support this Family Fast Day will help more of our neighbours grow enough to eat - how will you get involved?

Find everything you need to support CAFOD this Lent at home, at school or in your parish.

Lent Family Fast Day

Fundraising events

Food Fundraiser

Share a simple lunch with friends and give as you fast

Fundraise for a World Gift

See the difference your fundraising can make

Quiz night

Unleash your competitive streak with a quiz night

Fundraising tools and advice

CAFOD online shop

Visit our online shop to order fundraising resources like posters, collection boxes and lanyards.

Sponsorship form

Download your form, complete your event and raise those funds for CAFOD!

How to fundraise for us

Follow our handy step-by-step guidance for planning, promoting and hosting your fundraising event.

How to pay in your fundraising

Advice on how to send us the donations you worked so hard to raise using our website, or by post, phone or bank transfer.

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Lent Family Fast Day is on Friday 27th February 2026.

Your support this Family Fast Day will help more of our neighbours grow enough to eat - how will you get involved?

Find everything you need to support CAFOD this Lent at home, at school or in your parish.

Shorai with his wife Hamunyare in the Nyamuwe nutritional garden in Rushinga, Zimbabwe

Helping our neighbours grow enough to eat

Around the world – despite farmers’ best efforts – crops are failing and people are going hungry.

Shorai in Zimbabwe described how droughts affected his family: “As a father, it will be difficult for you to sleep.” It wasn't just the hunger that kept him awake at night, but the guilt and pain of seeing his children go to bed with empty stomachs.

But there is a solution and it needs all of us: CAFOD’s local experts, families like Shorai’s, and the support of people like you. In God’s eyes, we are one global family, called to be neighbours – to stand with one another in love and solidarity.

When drought threatened everything, Fast Day donations like yours helped Shorai turn dry ground into fertile land. Working with our local experts, he was able to build an eco-garden that used drought-resistant crops and a solar-powered water pump that draws water from a nearby dam.

Shorai told us: “A good neighbour is someone who can help me in periods of need.”

By supporting CAFOD's Family Fast Day this Lent, you’re being the good neighbour Jesus calls us to be – loving others as we love ourselves.

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Lent Family Fast Day

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