Development Archives - Page 22 of 26

Time for climate justice at Copenhagen

26/05/2010 Advocacy, Climate Change, Denmark, Development, Europe, Food, High-Level Meetings and Events by Caritas Communications

Caritas members from around the world are travelling to Copenhagen to lobby governments at a key climate change meeting. The UN summit (called the UNFCCC) is set to agree targets for cutting the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. It will also set funding for poor communities to tackle the impact of extreme or ...

Caritas brings voices of poor to Copenhagen

26/05/2010 Advocacy, Climate Change, Denmark, Development, Europe, Food, High-Level Meetings and Events by Caritas Communications

Caritas members from around the world are in Copenhagen lobbying governments at a key climate change meeting. The UN summit (the UNFCCC) is set to agree targets for cutting the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. It will also set funding for poor communities to tackle the impact of extreme or unpredictable weather and ...

Baghdad’s beehive: a day in the life of Caritas Iraq

30/03/2010 Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Development, Emergencies, Iraq, Middle East & North Africa, Peacebuilding by Caritas Communications

Caritas centres are dotted across the poorer areas of Baghdad. The typical working day of a Caritas employee begins with traffic jams, road checkpoints, closed streets, and, in some cases, bomb explosions. It takes some workers up to two hours to get to the centres, although they live less than 10 km away. They need ...

Hunger the real homework

2/02/2010 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Development, Emergencies, Food, Malnutrition, SDG, Zimbabwe by Caritas Communications

Widespread hunger in rural Zimbabwe means that Kembo Ndlovu, head of Lupaka primary school, doesn’t just have to worry about nourishing his pupils’ minds, but also their bodies. Children who don’t get enough food at home, won’t have the energy to go to school and if they do, nagging hunger pangs will make it harder ...

Caritas at Davos 2010

16/01/2010 Advocacy, Development, Europe, High-Level Meetings and Events, Poverty Elimination, SDG, Switzerland, World Economic Forum by Caritas Communications

Caritas Internationalis Secretary-General Lesley-Anne Knight will be attending the World Economic Forum in Davos 27 to 31 January, urging for a reshaping of global institutions and structures to put ethics, values and respect for the human person into international financial systems.

Haiti 2009: Back in Class

2/12/2009 Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Development, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Emergencies in Haiti, Haiti, Latin America, SDG by Caritas Communications

Soft spoken and demure, Junor Hesgazons leans intently into his schoolwork, his eyes casting constantly to the chalkboard as the day’s lesson takes shape. His white collared shirt neatly creased despite the humidity of southern Haiti, Hesgazons looks every bit the engineer he hopes one day to be. “I like to study engineering. I like ...

Calls for climate justice to world leaders

17/09/2009 Advocacy, Climate Change, Development, Food, High-Level Meetings and Events by Caritas Communications

In support of the CIDSE-Caritas Internationalis campaign for Climate Justice, a delegation of Bishops and climate experts from the developed and developing world will be in New York on the occasion of the High-Level Meeting on Climate Change on 22 September 2009. Together they will personally meet world leaders and ask them to give a ...

Caritas Sri Lanka: 40 years of empowerment

3/09/2009 Aid Success Story, Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Development, Emergencies, Emergencies in Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka by Caritas Communications

As Caritas Sri Lanka prepares to celebrate its 40th anniversary in December, one theme runs through the festivities and its work over the past few decades: empowerment. Bringing an end to an ongoing civil war and rebuilding lives after the tsunami are just two of the challenges facing the people of Sri Lanka. They are ...

Small steps to big changes in Africa

17/08/2009 Africa, Aid Success Story, Development, Ethiopia, Poverty Elimination by Caritas Communications

Rural communities in northern Ethiopia weren’t sure they could trust what they were hearing. How could anyone benefit by setting aside the equivalent of a few pennies each month? Come visit the Weini savings and lending group a year and a half later, and they are singing a new tune. At first, saving was slow. ...

Caritas imagines globalisation based on solidarity

16/08/2009 Advocacy, Development, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

The last months of 2008 saw the global economic system suffer its worst meltdown since the 1930s, one that would push millions into greater poverty. 2008 was also the halfway point to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a series of anti-poverty targets signed in 2000 by almost every country and aimed at raising millions of ...