Visualizza emergencies 2011

EA30 SUDAN-DARFUR
Caritas and its ACT partners continue to provide lifesaving services to half a million people who fled violence. Its programmes support six clinics and three nutrition centres in West Darfur and a nutrition centre in South Darfur. They also construct and rehabilitate schools and provide school materials. In rural camps for displaced people, the programme improves sanitation in schools, provides solar power, and creates boreholes. It also works to build peace among groups in conflict. The appeal target is USD $11,643,000 (EUR 8,486,001).



EA29 Tropical storms in Central America
In October 2011, downpours in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua led to floods, landslides, and crops being wiped out. Caritas ran Food for Work programmes, giving rice, beans, corn and more to villagers in return for cleaning and rehabilitating community infrastructure. Caritas is also helping families rebuild their homes and farmers recover from the disaster.



EA28  TURKEY:
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey in October 2011, leaving more than 600 dead and causing great damage to houses. Caritas Turkey distributed children’s coats and shoes, along with stoves to households most in need of heating. Caritas is also distributing food to the most vulnerable. The project budget is € 321,000.



EA27 THAILAND:
Responding to the massive floods of autumn 2011, Caritas Japan is providing  food and non-food items for households and those in temporary shelters; volunteer health services; rice seeds and vegetable seeds for farmers; and microfinance grants. The programme will aid over 40,000 people using a total budget of €506,494.



EA26 SOUTH SUDAN (Western Equatoria):
This programme aids families who fled attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Western Equatoria State, South Sudan. 25,000 beneficiaries are receiving food, shelter assistance, education, access to basic health care, and use of water and sanitation facilities.




EA25  PHILIPPINES: 
Two intense typhoons (Nesat and Nalgae) hit Northern and Central Luzon from 27 September to 1 October 2011. Caritas Philippines is providing food, hygiene items, household and shelter material through the distribution of vouchers so that families have the flexibility to choose the supplies they need.




EA24  CAMBODIA:
Severe floods affected over 150,000 families in autumn 2011. Houses were flooded; schools, pagodas and other buildings were damaged; and vast amounts of the rice crop were destroyed. Caritas Cambodia distributed food and non-food items to 7,000 flood-affected families and is helping them restore their livelihoods.




EA23 PAKISTAN:
A severe flood struck southern Pakistan in late summer 2011, compounding the damage done by  a massive flood in summer 2010. Caritas Pakistan provided tents, food packages, soap, blankets and more to over 10,000 families. Caritas also ran medical camps, driving through flooded roads to reach those in need.



EA22   JAPAN:
 In the wake of enormous tsunami damage, Caritas Japan continued meet people’s basic human needs, especially elderly people who lost their homes. Caritas helped small businesses rebuild and distributed heating supplies to 45,000 people living in transitional houses. The programme budget amounts to € 4,969,216.




EA21 SOMALIA:
This programme responds to the refugee crisis caused by drought, conflict and famine in Somalia. More than 250,000 Somalis fled their country in 2011, often walking on foot to already overcrowded refugee camps in Kenya. Existing water taps, washing facilities and latrines are not sufficient to accommodate the new arrivals. This project, run by Catholic Relief Services Kenya, is providing sanitation, and water systems for drought-affected refugees in Kambioos Camp in Dabaab, Kenya.



EA19 BANGLADESH:
When heavy monsoon rains struck the Khulna and Mymensingh regions, Caritas Bangladesh gave rice, cooking oil, and other food to over 10,000 families. Caritas is supporting flood-affected people to repair damaged houses, latrines, roads, and embankments. The programme budget is € 414,227.



EA18 ETHIOPIA:
Two consecutive poor rainy seasons left an estimated 4.5 million Ethiopians without food or a way to make a living. Caritas members helped 65,120 beneficiaries by providing food and water, protection and recovery of livelihoods, and improving the nutritional and health status of vulnerable individuals. The programme budget is € 1,489,048.



EA17 KENYA:
East Africa’s worst drought in sixty years affected millions of Kenyans. Rivers dried up, livestock died, and people suffered severe hunger and thirst. Caritas trucked in food and drinking water and paid impoverished people to work on water projects like dams.  When rain fell in October 2011, Caritas gave farmers drought-resistant seeds and helped herders replenish their flocks. The programme budget is € 3,959,919.



EA16 PHILIPPINES:
This recovery programme is providing shelter in 5 provinces (Rizal, Bulacan, La Union, Dagupan, and Pangasinan) for people who lost their homes following super typhoons Ketsana and Parma struck in autumn 2009. EA 16/2011 is helping 415 families with fully damaged homes through the provision of permanent or transitional housing.




EA15 SOUTH SUDAN:
Building peace and helping the vulnerable in South Sudan is crucial given the many challenges facing this newly-formed country. Caritas is providing water, food, shelter, health and education to 100,000 conflict-affected people in South Sudan, including people who had to flee their homes. Caritas is also using an established network of radio stations to broadcast information about emergency situations such as sudden displacements and natural disasters. The total budget is US $7,604,347.



EA14 JAPAN:
A 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami struck eastern Japan on 11 March 2011, killing over 15,000 people and destroying more than 300,000 houses. Caritas Japan provided meals and emergency items to thousands of people in the first months after the disaster. It also set up four volunteer centres and mobilized over 2000 volunteers to clear debris from homes and businesses.



EA 13 CHILE:
Following the earthquake and tsunami of 27 February 2010, a rehabilitation programme is supporting the reconstruction or repair of houses, as well as livelihoods recovery, psychosocial intervention, and more.



EA12 – Myanmar earthquake

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck North-Eastern Myanmar on 24 March, affecting around 18,000 people. The appeal with a budget of $379,500 aims to provide 1,972 earthquake victims with emergency food aid, temporary shelter, building material and counselling. Community infrastructures, waster systems, latrines and schools will also be rebuilt in this 2-month emergency response programme.
 



EA 11 – Rehabilitation after Pakistan floods
Through this 10-month (1 March – 31 December 2011) Recovery and Rehabilitation programme, Caritas appeals for € 15,799,074 to meet the medium and longer term needs of 362,647 people who were affected by the floods of July/August 2010 in northwest and southwest Pakistan. The aid builds on the previous emergency appeal EA14-2010 and includes shelter, livelihoods, water, sanitation and education.





EA 10 – Sudanese refugees living in camps in Chad
As the situation of refugees from Darfur near to the Chadian-Sudanese border remains difficult, the 7-months project will provide 34,418 Sudanese living in the Kounoungou and Milé camps and 9,000 locals from surrounding villages with assistance in the fields of water, sanitation, agriculture, cultural activities, training and more. The appeal prolongs the aid provided through EA 03/2010.




EA 09 – Migrant workers on Libya-Niger border
With a budget of €471,378, the appeal will target 4,500 inhabitants of Niger and 500 people of other nationalities, all of them migrant workers fleeing the conflict in Libya. The migrant workers will receive blankets, hygiene kits and other emergency aid as well as support in their repatriation process or on their way home in Niger.



EA08 Migrant workers on the Tunisian-Libyan border

 Caritas Internationalis is appealing for $113,000 (€80,000) to ensure appropriate protection, information and counselling services to thousands of migrant workers fleeing Libya and stranded at the Tunisian/Libyan border. While the migrants are awaiting repatriation or resettlement to third countries, Caritas will in particular offer orientation in the migrants’ mother tongues and more personalized assistance for vulnerable migrants.

EA 07 – Floods in Peru

Caritas is launching an appeal for €335,000 to support 14, 300 people affected by current floods in Peru expected to continue in April. The 3-month project will support poor families with food, health care, shelter, hygiene, sanitation and rehabilitation to recover from the disaster.

Ea 6 - Libya crisis
Caritas is appealing for 174,584 euro to provide food aid to migrant workers fleeing the social unrests in Libya.  20,000 migrants stranded in Saloum at the Egyptian-Libyan border and waiting for their repatriation  will receive sufficient food and water through this appeal.
Ea 5 - Niger floods
Many families in Niger lost their homes and resources after heavy rain falls and floods in August 2010. Caritas is planning to help 3119 households with mosquito nets and construction materials and 153 households with seeds. The total budget of the project

EA 4 – Election violence in Côte d’Ivoire

Caritas is appealing for over 300,000 euro to provide food, health, hygiene support and other aid to people affected by December’s election violence in Côte d’Ivoire. The three-month project will focus on 5000 people displaced following last year’s election unrest and 400 families in border towns in Zouan-Hounien province. Read more...



EA 3 – Floods in Brazil

The recent floods and mudslides in South East Brazil were the worst natural disaster the country has experienced in the last 40 years. More than 800 people died and around 25,000 people were left homeless. Caritas is appealing for €1.2 million ($1.65 million) to provide 5,000 families with food, hygiene kits and emergency shelter as well as livelihoods support. Read more…



EA2 – Rehabilitation programme for war victims in Sri Lanka

Caritas is prolonging its assistance to war-affected families in Sri Lanka (EA 35 2009) for another year. The budget for this programme is €3, 6 million. The assistance provided includes shelter, water and sanitation, livelihood and education support to 1,743 families and 5,191 children who suffered from displacement or other consequences of the civil war. Read more...





EA 1 – Sri Lanka Floods

Floods caused by the North East monsoon have rendered thousands of people homeless and affected nearly a million in Sri Lanka. Caritas is appealing for € 222, 000 to provide drinking water and food to 8,000 families as well as non food items and hygiene kits to 3,000 families. Read more...