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One Year after the Earthquake in Syria. Caritas was the First Light of Hope after the Disaster

5/02/2024 Earthquake, Earthquake Syria Turkey 2023, Emergencies in Syria, Syria, Turkey by daniele piccini

Yasmine Halalish lives in Aleppo with her husband, Fathi Moustafa, as the stepmother of three children: Raneem, who needs special health care, Tasneem and Mouhammad Moustafa. Their birth mother died. Please tell me about the time after the earthquake. Did you receive any aid? «We did receive aid from Caritas Syria: canned food, hygiene kits ...

War in Syria. A story told in Caritas Anatolia Listening Centres

4/12/2023 Syria, Turkey by daniele piccini

We could finally afford to live in the house of our dreams. It was outside the centre of Homs, the family home, big and spacious. After years of hard work as a teacher, my husband had saved enough money to renovate it. I was happy, finally our children would have enough space to grow up happy. ...

CARITAS SYRIA AND TURKEY: SIX MONTHS AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE, THE NEEDS ARE TREMENDOUS

4/08/2023 Earthquake, Middle East & North Africa, Press Release, Syria, Turkey by daniele piccini

Six months after the tragic earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on the night of February 5-6, the people are still in dire need. Caritas Confederation continues to assist the two local Caritas in the response. In Turkey, the earthquake toll was more than 50,000 casualties, 3 million people displaced and 9 million affected, and despite ...

OVER 150,000 FAMILIES WITHOUT ADEQUATE SHELTER IN SYRIA AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE

16/03/2023 Earthquake, Emergencies, Syria by daniele piccini

According to UNHCR, widespread destruction of buildings and homes has displaced 150,000 households across Syria and 900,000 people are in urgent need of shelter. To date, an estimated 50,000 people are dead and an additional 110,000 have been left injured by the earthquake on February 6th. These figures continue to rise as search and rescue ...

HUMANITARIAN EXEMPTIONS ARE NOT ENOUGH TO OVERCOME THE IMPACT OF SANCTIONS ON VULNERABLE PEOPLE

15/03/2023 Earthquake, Middle East & North Africa, Syria by daniele piccini

In conjunction with the 52nd Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (27- February – 4 April), Caritas Internationalis (CI) together with the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), World Council of Churches (WCC) and ACT Alliance have launched their joint report ‘Assessing the Impact of Sanctions on Humanitarian Work’ in partnership with the Geneva Graduate ...

EARTHQUAKE IN SYRIA AND TURKEY: WE TRY TO HELP PEOPLE AND TO BE TOGETHER IN THE FACE OF THIS TRAGEDY

6/03/2023 Syria, Turkey by daniele piccini

One month has now passed since two powerful earthquakes struck Turkey and north-west Syria on 6 February. Since then, Caritas’ emergency response efforts on the ground have been led by local organisations in Anatolia in Turkey, and in the Syrian cities of Aleppo and Lattakia. In Turkey alone, it is estimated that 44,200 people have ...

THE FEMALE FACE IS KEY IN RESTORING PEACE, JUSTICE AND DEVELOPMENT IN SYRIA

24/10/2022 Advocacy, Syria, Women by daniele piccini

After 11 years of civil war in Syria, the impact of prolonged violence and conflict has left deep wounds and scars in the country. Severe economic deterioration and its knock-on effects, as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, has left over 90 per cent of the population living under the poverty line and ...

Stop sanctions. After 10 years of war Syria is now under the ‘bomb’ of poverty

23/03/2021 Conflicts and Disasters, Development, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Middle East & North Africa, News, Press Release, Syria by Caritas Communications

Ahead of the fifth European Union donor conference on Syria, Caritas Internationalis shed light on the situation in Syria and urges the international community to act during the conference “Church and Caritas: 10 years of humanitarian response in Syria”.

Caritas with Syrians through ten years of war, displacement and humanitarian crisis

16/03/2021 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Middle East & North Africa, Syria by Caritas Communications

The closeness of Caritas with the vulnerable people of Syria has grown stronger and stronger during ten years of war. We look back at just some of the moments of Caritas’s work during ten years of war in Syria.

Caritas Syria staff Elias : “helping people while experiencing the same crisis ourselves”

12/03/2021 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Middle East & North Africa, Syria by Caritas Communications

Elias Hamwi has worked as a Caritas Syria project coordinator in the eastern part of Aleppo for over three years. Here he reflects on the challenges facing Syrians and Caritas staff, who also face the struggles of life in a war-torn country.