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Imagine a world for tomorrow’s generation: A view from Poznan and India

26/09/2009 Advocacy, Asia, Climate Change, Europe, Food, India, Meetings & Events, Poland by Caritas Communications

A view from Poznan Grow Climate Justice Campaign was launched on 7 December in Poznan. “People in countries such as Bangladesh are totally dependent on the weather,” Bishop Theotonius Gomes C.S.C, Bishop of Dhaka and President of Caritas Bangladesh said at the launch. “Our agriculture, and hence our whole culture, is based on water from ...

Caritas Bangladesh: Anup’s Story

26/09/2009 Asia, Bangladesh, Climate Change, Food by Caritas Communications

Bangladesh, one of the world’s poorest nations, is also the country most vulnerable to rises in sea-level. The population has already been severely affected by storm surges and catastrophic events in the past have caused damage 100 kilometres inland and the encroachment of the sea has salinated arable land. It is hard to imagine what these ...

The Biofuels Debate

26/09/2009 Asia, Bangladesh, Climate Change, Food by Caritas Communications

Hundreds of thousands of rickshaw drivers in Bangladesh survive on just a few dollars a day. Previously, they struggle to get by, but with prices for staple foods such as rice increasing by 45 percent in one year according to the National Consumers’ Association, that struggle has become a battle for survival. Caritas Germany in ...

Desertification in India

26/09/2009 Asia, Climate Change, Food, India by Caritas Communications

In recent times, the loss of vegetation in the area has vastly degraded their once fertile land, and water has become a rare commodity. Since 1999, the failure of the monsoon has adversely affected the soil and the land has become barren. In order to regenerate it, ravines and ridges were treated by constructing gully ...

Myanmar on Cyclone Nargis Anniversary

3/09/2009 Aid Success Story, Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Myanmar by Caritas Communications

One year on from Cylcone Nargis which took the lives of more than 140,000people and left more than two million people without homes, the Caritas network continues to bring dignity to those affected. Caritas has supplied over 100,000 people with basic food staples, around 40,000 people with non food items such as blankets and mosquito ...

Enough to Sri Lanka’s pain

3/09/2009 Advocacy, Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Sri Lanka, Peacebuilding, Sri Lanka by Caritas Communications

Caritas is urging all sides in Sri Lanka’s civil war to end their hostilities immediately to prevent further loss of lives to children and other innocent civilians. The 25-year old conflict has reached a peak in the last year with between 70,000 and 250,000 people displaced in last remaining pocket of fighting in Vanni. Caritas ...

Unprecedented human tragedy in Sri Lanka

3/09/2009 Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka by Caritas Communications

Caritas says innocent civilians are dying in Sri Lanka due to indiscriminate bombing by both the army and rebels with thousands more wounded and suffering. Caritas says the country is facing a humanitarian crisis with at least 250,000 people trapped in the conflict zone in Vanni in the northeast as government forces battle Tamil rebels ...

Remembering the Asia tsunami

3/09/2009 Aid Success Story, Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka by Caritas Communications

An earthquake in the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004 triggered a tsunami that devastated the coasts of Indonesia, Thailand, India and Sri Lanka Some 300,000 people were killed in a matter of hours.

Caritas Sri Lanka: 40 years of empowerment

3/09/2009 Aid Success Story, Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Development, Emergencies, Emergencies in Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka by Caritas Communications

As Caritas Sri Lanka prepares to celebrate its 40th anniversary in December, one theme runs through the festivities and its work over the past few decades: empowerment. Bringing an end to an ongoing civil war and rebuilding lives after the tsunami are just two of the challenges facing the people of Sri Lanka. They are ...

Inside Sri Lanka’s camps

2/09/2009 Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Sri Lanka, Peacebuilding, Sri Lanka by Caritas Communications

Close to a quarter of a million men, women and children have arrived in camps in the north of Sri Lanka. They’ve fled months of heavy fighting between government and rebel forces, endured a lack of food and medicine, and witnessed unimaginable suffering. Caritas is one of the few international aid agencies with access into ...