West Africa's Sahel region faced devastating hunger in 2012 after drought left a huge swathe of countries short of food.
This year Gaba is fully engaged with the emergency assistance project of Caritas Switzerland and UNAD (Caritas Chad) that helps people from several regions of Chad who are severely affected by the drought. Help is mainly provided in form of food and new seeds.
Balama was a village once located on the shores of Lake Chad, in the east of the county. Since the 1960s, the lake has been greatly reduced. A changing climate and uncontrolled use of water for irrigated agricultures combined with population pressure, has led to the receding of the lake to 10 percent of its original surface.
By Ryan Worms, Caritas Internationalis “I want to set-up a small business to sell rice, flour and sugar. The last time, I made a tidy profit. I need 1000 gourdes (US$25),” says Ariette Tessono. Ariette is one of the members of the solidarity fund set up by Caritas in Labiche, in the south of Haiti. ...
UN Special Rapporteur on the “Right to Food”, Mr. Olivier de Schutte was interviewed by Caritas Europa. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GY3LhxkWK0&w=560&h=315] A video interview with Mr. Olivier de Schutter will be screened at a High Level Panel at the European Development Days, organised by Caritas Europa, Caritas Belgium, CIDSE and Cyprus NGO Development Platform (CYNDEP), on 17 ...
The village of Chawir is located in Canton Migami, south-central Chad (West Africa). Like almost everywhere in the area, the locals are almost exclusively women and children. Of the 2,760 inhabitants of Chawir, only 120 are adult men.
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 ...
By Martina Liebsch, Caritas Internationalis Policy and Advocacy Director I start with a loaf of bread: Our daily bread. We need to share it and more importantly provide people the seeds, knowledge and resources to grow it in an often hostile environment. At Mass following the opening day of the Future without Hunger Congress in ...
Par Ryan Worms « La faim dans le monde n’est pas une fatalité, c’est une tragédie qui pourrait être évitée. » Par ces mots, le cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, président de Caritas Internationalis, a mis de l’avant le constat qui mobilise les participants du Congrès sur la faim dans le monde et la sécurité alimentaire ...
Caritas is hosting a congress on Global Hunger and Sustainable Food Security – 1st and 2nd of June 2012 in Vienna Live stream from the Future without Hunger Conference. Cardinal Rodriguez about to speak. | Read the key note speech by Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga (pdf) 925 million people worldwide are starving. Every 12 seconds, a child dies of ...