Poverty Elimination Archives - Page 7 of 11

Church hopes Rio +20 Summit will find path towards development

18/06/2012 Advocacy, Blog, Brazil, Development, High-Level Meetings and Events, Latin America, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

With the planting of a tree, the Brazilian Episcopal Conference, with bishops and priests from the Latin American church, began Mass in the Cathedral of St. Sebastian in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The faithful prayed for a renewed commitment of world leaders to work for the elimination of poverty and the protection of ...

Caritas at Rio + 20

12/06/2012 Advocacy, Agriculture, Climate Change, Development, Food, High-Level Meetings and Events, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development to be held in Rio de Janeiro on 20-22 June is expected to represent a new stage in the political process that began back of 1972. Ever since the UN Stockholm Conference on Human Environment, political leaders have been discussing how to reconcile human development needs with environmental ...

Caritas Cuba helps elderly as poverty grows

21/03/2012 Cuba, Development, Latin America, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

“The elderly are among those most affected by poverty,” said Migdalia Dopico, coordinator of the Elderly Support Programme for Caritas Cuba. With one in five Cubans now over 60, the problem is getting worse. Caritas Cuba’s 800 volunteers and 190 canteens are responding by providing thousands of meals to 28000 elderly people.

People with special needs supported by Caritas Cuba

21/03/2012 Catholic Teaching, Cuba, Development, Latin America, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

In Cienfuegos, Cuba, a group of young people with Down Syndrome are putting on a show for their parents and friends. The young people delight in singing and dancing.

Will street children in Ukraine survive the cold?

16/02/2012 Conflicts and Disasters, Development, Emergencies, Europe, Poverty Elimination, SDG, Ukraine by Caritas Communications

Caritas Ukraine continues to tackle the increasing number of homeless children, one of the country’s biggest sociological problems, who are now facing a harsh winter.

Slum fire in Kenya puts focus on social injustice

15/09/2011 Africa, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Development, Emergencies, Kenya, Poverty Elimination by Caritas Communications

Caritas Kenya is supporting survivors of a huge fire that devastated the Sinai slums in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on 12 September. Over a hundred people were killed and a hundred more injured after a pipeline burst and leaked fuel into the Ngong river, which passes through this slum area. Kenya Pipeline Company managing director ...

Changing lives in Bangladesh

20/07/2011 Advocacy, Agriculture, Asia, Bangladesh, Climate Change, Conflicts and Disasters, Development, Disaster Preparedness, Food, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

By Caritas Bangladesh staff Fishing for crabs in the vast mangrove forest of the Sundarbans in Bangladesh is a dangerous way to make a living. A local poem says you always have a ‘shiver of fear’ as you travel the complex network of waterways, mudflats and small islands because the Royal Bengal Tiger does not ...

Poverty in Europe

7/07/2011 Development, Europe, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

Caritas believes it is scandalous that eighty million people live below the poverty line in Europe, a quarter of them children. So, while the MDGs are stepping stones, striving to halve poverty in the developing world, Caritas Europa launched the “Zero Poverty” campaign to end poverty full stop as a starting point for all humanity. ...

Voices against poverty

7/07/2011 Advocacy, Africa, Development, High-Level Meetings and Events, Poverty Elimination, SDG, Senegal by Caritas Communications

The eight Millennium Development Goals represent the basic human dignities which everyone of us should have. They seek to reduce hunger and poverty in Senegal and everywhere else in the world. Caritas members are working hard towards the targets. Backing up their work on the ground with advocacy, Caritas Internationalis launched its web-based campaign "Voices Against Poverty" in Australia in September.

Worldwide solidarity at the World Social Forum

7/02/2011 Advocacy, Africa, Development, High-Level Meetings and Events, Poverty Elimination, SDG, Senegal, World Social Forum by Caritas Communications

An African proverb that would best sum up the global movement that is the World Social Forum would be: “Many small people in many small places will do many small things to change the world”. An estimated 70,000 participants from across the world attended the 11th WSF at the University Campus Cheikh Anta Diop in ...