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Pandemic diseases: Promoting prevention, treatment, and care

23/06/2010 Advocacy, Africa, Health, HIV & AIDS, Tuberculosis, Uganda by Caritas Communications

Caritas works on behalf of those at risk fromdevastating pandemics such as HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. In the developing world, poverty itself is both a cause and an effect of pandemics that devastate the physical, social and economic health of entire regions. Caritas raises awareness about AIDS issues around the world through ...

Earning a living in Darfur

23/06/2010 Africa, Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, Sudan by Caritas Communications

Caritas Internationalis works in Darfur in cooperation with Action by Churches Together (ACT) helping 350,000 people, including 240,000 who have lost their homes. The implementing partner, Norwegian Church Aid, has two national Sudanese partners, the Sudan Council of Churches and Sudanaid (Caritas Sudan). Miriam is a tailoring teacher in Bilel Camp, one of Darfur’s relief ...

Treatment for children in South Africa

23/06/2010 Africa, Health, HIV & AIDS, South Africa, Tuberculosis by Caritas Communications

When seven-year-old Mosipho was brought to the Thabang Society in Parys, South Africa, she was close to death. She had been diagnosed with HIV in January and was seriously ill. “She was suffering from pneumonia and had a swollen abdomen and swollen legs. She wasn’t far from death,” said paediatrician Dr Almud Pollmeier. Mosipho, who ...

Food for thought in Zimbabwe

23/06/2010 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Development, Emergencies, Food, Humanitarian Crisis in Zimbabwe, Malnutrition, SDG, Zimbabwe by Caritas Communications

The acute humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe continued in 2009, with half of the population reliant on food aid to survive.

Singing for peace in Uganda

23/06/2010 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Peacebuilding, Uganda by Caritas Communications

Karamoja is Uganda’s land of warrior nomads. Armed with automatic weapons from Congo and Sudan, young men engage in tit-for-tat cattle raids against rival clans. The scale of the raids can be huge with hundreds of fighters involved and several thousand cattle stolen in a single night. The death toll is high. The government has ...

A desert garden in Chad

23/06/2010 Africa, Agriculture, Chad, Climate Change, Food by Caritas Communications

Granite hills mark the horizon. The ground is carpeted with rocks. Apart from the dried up river beds (ouaddis) there is nowhere for vegetation to grow. Thorny shrubs are the only desert plant life. Nature is hostile in Eastern Chad. “Annual rainfall normally varies from 300 to 500 mm,” said Adoumadji, an agricultural technician working ...

Climate challenge in Ethiopia (photo gallery)

16/06/2010 Advocacy, Africa, Climate Change, Ethiopia, Food by Caritas Communications

Job skills in Darfur

14/06/2010 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, Sudan by Caritas Communications

By Edwyn Shiell, Act for Peace – Campaigns & Communication Coordinator (Australia) The sense that there is life beyond a state of emergency in the camps is growing in Bilel camp in Darfur. People are becoming involved with the community centres and vocational training is becoming more and more common. Though insecurity is still rife, ...

Educators in Darfur discuss ways forward

14/06/2010 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, Sudan by Caritas Communications

By Edwyn Shiell, Act for Peace – Campaigns & Communication Coordinator Since the expulsion of 13 International non- government agencies in March 2009 the ACT-Caritas Darfur Programme, implemented by Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) and its two National Partners the Sudan Council of Churches (SCC) and Sudanaid, have had to deal with the significant gaps in ...

Improving hygiene and sanitation in Darfur

14/06/2010 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, Sudan by Caritas Communications

By Edwyn Shiell, Act for Peace – Campaigns & Communication Coordinator The Norwegian Church Aid (a Caritas partner) Water and Sanitation facility in Bilel Camp is a humble thatched building. At the entrance are a series of heart shaped flower boxes made from red brick which bring the surrounding dry desert ground to life. On ...