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After tsunami, Caritas Japan and survivors reach new heights

5/09/2011 Aid Success Story, Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Japan by Caritas Communications

By Laura Sheahen Sakuma Kaname has taken the word “treehugger” to a whole new level. A high level. When a mammoth tsunami struck his town in Japan in March 2011, Sakuma “was on a hill near a bay,” he says. “I saw the water rising so fast—not just coming in, but rising up.” In minutes, ...

Caritas helping Bangladeshis stranded by floods

30/08/2011 Asia, Bangladesh, News, Press Release by Caritas Communications

Caritas is appealing for 414,227 euro (US $596,569) to help Bangladeshi families stranded by severe floods. Incessant monsoon rains since late July 2011 have inundated 13 of Bangladesh’s 64 districts. The floods have driven thousands of people from their homes to shelters in nearby schools or on higher ground. The continuous rain, combined with inadequate ...

Caring for hearts: helping Japan’s tsunami survivors

21/08/2011 Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Japan by Caritas Communications

When you’re knocked down by a massive wave that robs you of everything you have, it doesn’t end there. The second wave is stronger. Tsunami survivors know this. On the east coast of Japan, people who lived through the country’s worst natural disaster in centuries talk about the strength of that wave. It lifted and ...

Philippines’ Catholic AIDS network

15/08/2011 Advocacy, Asia, Health, HIV & AIDS, Philippines by Caritas Communications

For a long time, the Philippines was considered to have a relatively low AIDS rate, but in recent years this has started to change. Nowadays HIV in the Philippines is described as “hidden and growing”. At a recent forum in Tagaytay, the Philippines’ first Catholic HIV/AIDS network was launched. Caritas Internationalis’ special advisor on HIV ...

Six million people need help in North Korea

12/08/2011 Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Food, Malnutrition by Caritas Communications

by Fr Simeon Lee, Executive Director of Caritas (South)Korea I’m visiting North Korea to follow up on 100 tonnes of flour we delivered at the end of July and to talk with our North Korean counterparts. The flour is currently being distributed to nurseries and hospitals in Gangnam County in North Hwanghae. While it isn’t ...

Flood Anniversary and the role of Caritas Pakistan

3/08/2011 Aid Success Story, Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Pakistan, Pakistan by Caritas Communications

Amjad Gulzar, National Executive Secretary of Caritas Pakistan The first flood anniversary brings back many memories; both happy and sad. We supported the victims in times of pain and suffering but there were many whom we could not reach in time. Caritas Pakistan, helped generously through its international partners and played vital role of bringing ...

Seeking a normal life after Pakistan floods

28/07/2011 Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Pakistan, Pakistan by Caritas Communications

Eric Dayal, National Coordinator for Disasters at Caritas Pakistan I’ve been to many of the affected areas since the floods and things have changed. People have started moving towards normal life in many respects. Now there are almost no camps and people have gone back to their villages. Many lives have been saved and people ...

One year anniversary of the Pakistan floods

27/07/2011 Aid Success Story, Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Emergencies in Pakistan, Pakistan by Caritas Communications

Floods in Pakistan in the summer of 2010 were the worst in 80 years. As one-fifth of the country lay underwater, 18 million people struggled to find food and water and to keep a roof over their heads. One year on, communities are still rebuilding their lives. Caritas is with the people of Pakistan as ...

Planting seeds of recovery after Pakistan’s floods

27/07/2011 Agriculture, Aid Success Story, Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Pakistan, Food, Pakistan by Caritas Communications

Ghulam Akber clutches his bag of cotton seed and knows he is holding his future. The seeds are the key to 22-year-old Ghulam rebuilding his life. More than anything, he needs a new house. But to get a new house, he needs money; to get money, he needs a crop; to get a crop, he ...

Fresh water on tap after the floods in Pakistan

27/07/2011 Aid Success Story, Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Pakistan, Pakistan by Caritas Communications

By Laura Sheahen, Catholic Relief Services On a day in September 2010, a group of white-bearded men left their mountaintop village in Pakistan and wended their way down 5000 feet of steep, rocky slopes. None of them were young; one used a cane. At the base of the mammoth mountain, a river had burst its ...