27 January 2015, Rome - Group photo of members of FUN African Amicale (AFRAM), Union of General Service Staff (FAO/UGSS), Association of Professionals in FAO (AP-in-FAO), African group of the UN Women's Guild (UNWG - Africa), and Executive Committee of IFAD Staff Association (ECSA), holding a cheque donated to Caritas Internationalis for the provision of hygiene kits to communities affected by the Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Liberia, FAO Headquarters. Between October and December 2014, the Joint Partners launched a campaign that primarily targeted the staff, spouses and friends of the Rome-based UN organizations, FAO, WFP and IFAD to raise funds in support of the ongoing efforts to control the outbreak of the EVD and to alleviate the ensuing human suffering in the three affected countries of West Africa, namely: Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.