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Overwhelming humanitarian crisis within Syria

23/01/2013 Advocacy, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Communications

Under a blanket given by Caritas, a mother and child try to keep out the freezing cold temperatures and snow as they sleep out in the open in one of the parks of the Syrian capital Damascus. They are just two of 1.5 million people forced from their homes during the country’s civil war. Tens ...

Life is hard for Syrian refugees in the Lebanese winter

4/01/2013 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Communications

By Marina Bellot, Secours Catholique/Caritas France Life is increasingly difficult for Syrian refugees in Lebanon now winter has come. However, Caritas Lebanon is by their side. Syrians who cross the border to Lebanon are looking for one thing for themselves and their families : to live in peace. Some 132,000 Syrian refugees have been registered by ...

Temperature drop in Lebanon leaving Syrian refugees out in cold

14/12/2012 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Communications

By Jos de Voogd, Bekaa Valley The news this week is that more than 500,000 Syrian refugees have been registered by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) in the region, and the numbers are climbing by more than 3,000 per week as the conflict escaltes. Lebanon is the smallest of Syria’s neighbouring countries and bears one ...

Ten Gaza facts

4/12/2012 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in the Palestine, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees by Caritas Communications

Home to 1.6 million people, Gaza is just 40km long and 10km wide. It is one of the most densely populated areas in the world.

Aleppo suffers with no end in sight to Syria crisis

28/11/2012 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Communications

Read in French “Everything is enveloped by a sense of ruin and decay,” says Bishop Antoine Audo, Chaldean bishop of Aleppo and president of Caritas Syria. “In Aleppo, there are hundreds of thousands of displaced people crammed into schools and makeshift camps. There are 5,000 people who sleep outside in the gardens of the university ...

Post-war Gaza

22/11/2012 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in the Palestine, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees by Caritas Communications

Now there’s a ceasefire in Gaza, assisting communities in the Strip is of the highest priority. The week-long war between Gaza and Israel has left many people in desperate need of medical items, drinking water and blankets, among other things. Caritas Jerusalem’s health team – two coordinators, medical staff and two psychiatrists – are making ...

Syria Crisis: More than just a quilt

21/11/2012 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Jordan, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Communications

By Dana Shahin, Caritas Jordan Fatima is a widow who recently fled the conflict in Syria to seek refuge in Jordan. She came to the Caritas Jordan centre in Mafraq where she would be able to receive essential help. Once she’d registered with a Caritas staff member, she headed over to the volunteer’s desk to ...

Syria refugee crisis

25/10/2012 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Europe, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria, Turkey by Caritas Communications

While international efforts are made to bring about a ceasefire in Syria, refugees continue to flood over the border into neighbouring countries. Up to 360,000 have fled Syria as a result of the ongoing conflict there. They may have lost family members in the violence or been separated from them. They leave behind their homes ...

Life after Syria

25/10/2012 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Communications

“I thank Caritas every day for the assistance we received” Three months ago, Sanaa gave birth alone in her house, just a few days after arriving in Lebanon from Syria. She, her husband and their two young children ran away from heavy shelling .They are from Hama and did not know anyone in Lebanon. “We ...

100,000 Syrians in Lebanon face hardship as winter looms

24/10/2012 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Communications

As the fighting intensifies throughout Syria, thousands of refugees continue to pour over the border. According to the latest figures from UNHCR (the UN refugee agency), there are 100,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon registered and over double that figure not registered. “I see more people and more despair,” says Hombline Dulière, a social worker for ...