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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.

Since its inception in 1977, GOAL has spent in excess of €790million on humanitarian programmes in more than 50 countries. Many thousands of staff, local and international, have worked for GOAL in the developing world, helping the organisation respond to every major humanitarian disaster since 1977.

GOAL is currently working in 14 countries: Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, India, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Sierra Leone, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Uganda, Zimbabwe and the Philippines.

GOAL carries out WASH programming in 12 out of these 14 countries. Work in both emergency and development programmes in urban and rural areas. Rural water supply programming is common place with a strategic focus on the sustainability of rural water supply.