As Ebola spreads through West Africa, even healthy people are suffering from the disease’s economic fallout. Markets are sometimes closed and travel is restricted.
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Telephone: +225 224 20 684 / +225 22 429596 Fax: +225 224 20 698
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Caritas Côte d’Ivoire, the charitable organisation of the Catholic Church of Côte d’Ivoire, was established in 1955 and registered with the Ministry of the Interior in 1968. It aims to promote the development of all human persons and every aspect of the human person by creating an awareness of solidarity, sharing, social justice and peace in accordance with the values of the Gospel.
Caritas Côte d’Ivoire is present throughout the country and operates via 15 diocesan Caritas and over 400 parochial Caritas to assist the most disadvantaged people. These parochial Caritas comprise the operational teams with more than 20,000 basic ecclesial communities, where efforts have been made to fully implement charity for over 50 years.
Caritas Côte d’Ivoire has three main areas of intervention, namely emergency assistance, human development, healthcare and the fight against HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.
It is involved in programmes that encourage agricultural development, improvement of access to potable water and sanitation systems, and support for incomegenerating activity projects.
Caritas Côte d’Ivoire is working on human rights and the protection of vulnerable children from exploitation via a project that combats the worse kinds of child labour in the cocoa growing sector, on a project to reintegrate repatriated Ivoirians, and on an assistance project for Liberian refugees in Côte d’Ivoire. It also carries out advocacy and works on social cohesion, reconciliation and peacebuilding initiatives.
In order to achieve its objectives, Caritas Côte d’Ivoire works in partnership with national and international humanitarian and development organisations, including: UNHCR, the Global Fund, ICI BNETD (Ivorian government agency), members of the Caritas network (France; Spain; South Korea; Japan; Italy; USA), WFP, UNDP, UNICEF, WHO, FAO, etc.
Updates from Ivory Coast
Almost one year after the election of President Ouattara, and the violence and humanitarian crisis that followed it, Côte d’Ivoire seems to be well on the way towards stabilisation and peace.
On 3 October 2011, the International Criminal Court (ICC) authorised its prosecutor to investigate crimes against humanity and war crimes alleged to have been committed in Côte d’Ivoire by the forces of former President Laurent Gbagbo and President Alassane Ouattara.
Jean Djoman, the head of Caritas Cote d’Ivoire emergency team, explains what happened during the months of violence and how Caritas is helping displaced people rebuild their lives.
As the post-election clashes have again intensified in Côte d’Ivoire over the last weeks, hundreds of thousands of people have left their homes to flee a situation that could quickly turn into a civil war and a lasting humanitarian crisis.
Hundreds of thousands of Ivoirians have already fled their homes to escape the violent post-election clashes in Côte d’Ivoire. Many experts believe Côte d’Ivoire is on the brink of civil war. “There is a generalized fear within the population here that makes us think the situation could escalate”, said Jean Djoman, Director of Human Development ...
Around 500,000 Ivorians have already fled their homes to shelter elsewhere in the country or abroad, and at least 90,000 of them have taken refuge across the border in Liberia. Smaller numbers of Ivorians have travelled to Ghana and Guinea.
“The war in Côte d’Ivoire in 2002 triggered a major humanitarian crisis that spread to the neighbouring countries,” said Jean Djoman, Director of Human Development at Caritas Côte d’Ivoire. “The same mistakes must not be repeated now.” Over a hundred and fifty people were killed in the West African country this December after a disputed ...
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