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Haiti: A voice in the rubble

21/12/2010 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Haiti, Haiti, Latin America by Caritas Communications

Ruth Schoeffel was working for Caritas Austria in Haiti immediately after the earthquake and got involved in a rescue mission I went with the Caritas rescuers from Mexico and some rescuers from South Africa to the Cuban hospital one day as I wanted to write about what the hospital was doing. While we were there ...

The first three months – emergency response

21/12/2010 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Haiti, Haiti, Latin America by Caritas Communications

Caritas started to send staff, aid and to donate money within hours of the earthquake. Caritas Haiti, Catholic Relief Services (a US member of Caritas) and Caritas Switzerland already had programmes in Haiti. They were on the ground assessing the situation and establishing what immediate needs were from the beginning In the first few months, ...

Caritas providing long term help to rebuild Haiti

21/12/2010 Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Emergencies in Haiti, Haiti, Latin America by Caritas Communications

Close to a year after the earthquake, Caritas relief and reconstruction programmes in Haiti are well-established throughout the country. Caritas will invest more than $217 million in Haiti over a one year period that started in May 2010. This aid will cover further emergency needs caused for example by hurricanes, floods or the cholera epidemic, ...

Sudan votes: Timeline

20/12/2010 Advocacy, Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, Peacebuilding, South Sudan, Sudan by Caritas Communications

CAFOD Sudan Peace Action timeline on Dipity.

Sudan votes: Being prepared

20/12/2010 Advocacy, Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Peacebuilding, South Sudan, Sudan by Caritas Communications

Sudan is approaching possibly the most critical point in it modern history. A nation whose past includes decades of conflict is about to make key decisions on its future. Southern Sudanese will choose either the continued unity of Sudan or secession. Caritas prays for the coming period to be peaceful and hope that an emergency ...

Sudan votes: Radio Nation

20/12/2010 Advocacy, Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Peacebuilding, South Sudan, Sudan by Caritas Communications

By Bridget Burrows, CAFOD’s Communications Officer in Nairobi (CAFOD is a Caritas member in England and Wales) When polling booths open on January 9, citizens from Sudan’s south will be voting in an exercise in self-determination, yet more than 75 per cent of the population in southern Sudan cannot read or write. Getting information has ...

Sudan votes: Voice for peace

20/12/2010 Advocacy, Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Peacebuilding, South Sudan, Sudan by Caritas Communications

Southern Sudan decides its own future 9 January in referenda on whether to remain within a unified Sudan or to secede. Caritas hopes that whatever the outcome, it succeeds in bringing healing to the nation and resolves differences that have led to so many years of conflict. However, Caritas is concerned about a tensions surrounding ...

Sudan votes

20/12/2010 Advocacy, Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Peacebuilding, South Sudan, Sudan by Caritas Communications

Southern Sudan went to the polls 9 January 2011 to decide on self-determination. Caritas prays the outcome will be peace and development for all Sudanese.Follow the elections with our staff in Juba on the Caritas blog.A resolution could be as good for Sudan as the election of Nelson Mandela was for South Africa, or it ...

Fighting increases in Darfur as Caritas aid reaches half a million people

15/12/2010 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, Peacebuilding, Sudan by Caritas Communications

Sudan’s Darfur region is witnessing an upsurge in violence. A quarter of a million people were forced from their homes in 2010. Millions more already live in camps in a crisis with no obvious resolution. [View our photo gallery from Caritas projects in Darfur] Caritas provided food, clean water, healthcare, peacebuilding and skills training to ...

Remembering Caritas Iraq’s fallen heroes

25/11/2010 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Iraq, Middle East & North Africa, Peacebuilding by Caritas Communications

The Caritas Iraq’s approach to poverty and conflict in the country includes a community volunteer programme. Caritas Iraq also runs peacebuilding projects bringing Christian and Muslim people together in a safe environment to share experiences.