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Green technology innovations from Caritas Denmark lifting people out of poverty

7/12/2018 Africa, Asia, Climate Change, Denmark, Development, Europe, Myanmar, Poverty Elimination, Refugees, Uganda by Ffion Dean

Caritas is working on several innovations to help bring environmentally-friendly, transparent, good-practice relief assistance to communities around the globe. While world leaders are discussing climate change at the UN Climate Change Conference in Katowice, Poland (December 2-14) Caritas Denmark is pioneering several green-technology projects: a new solar-powered water purifier a solar-powered cooker plans to map ...

South Sudan refugees: life in Uganda refugee camps

24/09/2018 Africa, Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, Food, Migration, Refugees, South Sudan, Uganda by Ffion Dean

In January 2017 we met South Sudan refugees who are living in Bidi Bidi in Uganda. 18 months later we've returned to the refugee camp to see the difference Caritas programmes are making to people who live there.

Hunger spreads in East and Horn of Africa

9/04/2018 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in East Africa, Emergencies in Ethiopia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malnutrition, Middle East & North Africa, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda by Caritas Internationalis

East Africa and the Horn of Africa are confronting a humanitarian crisis that may worsen in 2018. Armed conflict and severe drought are causing extreme levels of hunger. Up to 35 million people are in need of urgent food assistance across the region.

Ugandan scrub turns into second largest refugee camps in world

2/12/2016 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Migration, Refugees, Uganda by Caritas Internationalis

Up until July, Bidi Bidi in Northern Uganda was mostly sparsely populated grassland. Now, it’s the second largest refugee camp in the world home to 220,000 people.

Northern Uganda: Rebuilding Lives, Creating Futures

23/02/2012 Africa, Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Europe, Ireland, Uganda by Caritas Internationalis

This film tells the story of a small community of 16 families that were forced to rebuild their lives following an attack by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in 2004. It is a story of hope.

Seeing the wood for the trees in Uganda

24/01/2011 Advocacy, Africa, Climate Change, Food, Uganda by Caritas Internationalis

Uganda is already experiencing out of season flooding in the eastern region which destroyed crops and spread disease, heat waves, reduction in water levels, unpredictable rain, and prolonged drought in many parts of the country.

Internet helps Uganda find peace

15/07/2010 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Peacebuilding, Uganda by Caritas Internationalis

Give the poorest in rural Northern Uganda a voice through wireless internet, boost literacy, increase development and raise awareness about human rights violations. In 2005, an ambitious project with these objectives started out in the Archdiocese of Gulu, Northern Uganda.

Pandemic diseases: Promoting prevention, treatment, and care

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

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 ...

Singing for peace in Uganda

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

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 ...