Women Archives - Caritas

Caritas addresses a letter to the “Loss and Damage Fund” Board Members

22/04/2024 Advocacy, Agriculture, climate, Climate Change, Female face of migration, Food, Food Crisis, Women, Youth by Loredana Fabijanic

Dear Loss and Damage Fund Board Members, Congratulations on your appointment to the board of the Loss and Damage Fund (LDF). We are grateful for your acceptance of this responsibility and your commitment to such a significant task. We understand the urgency of the moment and the immense challenges posed by climate change. The success ...

Enhancing Leadership and Participation of Women

7/03/2024 Canada, North America, Women by daniele piccini

To reaffirm its commitment to equality, equity and the transformative role of women in development, in 2020 Caritas Canada (Development and Peace) updated and renewed its equality policy. The new policy and related action plan were developed through a participative process that engaged staff, partners in the Global South and members across Canada. This renewed ...

“God Calls Me to Serve”

7/03/2024 Latin America, Mexico, Women by daniele piccini

Caritas Mexicana, a Woman in Charge of Pastoral Activity: I am an Afro-Mexican woman, I carry in my throat the voice of my ancestors: my mother’s, my grandmothers’, my great-great-grandmothers’. In my travels through a large part of this beautiful Latin American and Caribbean continent, I have discovered different faces, especially the faces of black ...

“Women leaders: Towards a brighter future”

5/03/2024 Press Release, Women by daniele piccini

Powerful voices from around the world are gathering in Rome on 6 March 2024 to highlight how critical women’s leadership is to tackling the many global challenges we face. To mark International Women’s Day 2024, Caritas Internationalis and the Australian and British Embassies to the Holy See have joined forces to bring together high-profile speakers ...

A Woman Responsible for Psychosocial Support Programmes

5/03/2024 Iraq, Middle East & North Africa, Women by daniele piccini

I have been working in Caritas Iraq since mid-2015 as a presenter of psychosocial support lectures within the women’s empowerment programmes which were held at Caritas Iraq – Duhok office. After the approval of a new psychosocial support programme in 2017, we received training and I became responsible for the implementation of the programme in ...

Women train Volunteers to Tackle Violence Against Women

4/03/2024 Fiji, Oceania, Women by daniele piccini

Caritas Fiji’s First Responders program trains and supports volunteers to work together in their communities on community-led solutions to sexual violence and violence against women. This was the first time such workshops had been run by from a faith-based perspective in Fiji, and so generated significant interest. The Fijian Minister for Women, the Hon. Mereseini ...

“Let us Build Supporting Structures Around Women”

1/03/2024 Europe, Georgia, Women by daniele piccini

If I would be asked to give Caritas a human face, I would give it a woman’s face. We do not need to do a serious research to find out that the majority of care workers in Caritas are women. It is just visible! At the same time, research has shown that the majority of ...

“Come, Let’s Have a Cup of Tea Together”.

1/03/2024 Africa, Women by daniele piccini

How Caritas Mthatha Promotes Women’s Leadership In March 2018, Caritas Mthatha/Catholic Development Centre initiated a program called Masiphunge Women Empowerment Program. Masiphunge is a Xhosa word meaning, “Come, let’s have a cup of tea together”. The concept is based on an idea that women used to drink tea together and began to share important information ...

Women’s Contribution in Times of Crisis

29/02/2024 Asia, Philippines, Women by daniele piccini

The COVID-19 pandemic shone a spotlight on the crucial role of women in building healthy, sustainable and effective societies to meet the needs of people, particularly the most fragile. From families and communities to the highest levels of government and leadership, women demonstrated that it is in their nature to lead, promote and animate cooperatively ...

‘LETS STAND WITH OUR MOTHERS AND SISTERS’: CARITAS SOUTH SUDAN ACT TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS

29/11/2023 Advocacy, Africa, South Sudan, Women by Maria Kristina Millare

This year, as part of the global Caritas Internationalis campaign to eliminate violence against women and girls (25 November – 10 December), Caritas South Sudan launched their national initiative Act Now: Prevent and Respond to Violence Against Women and Girls to celebrate and stand in solidarity with women and girls combatting all forms of violence ...