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In southern Haiti mothers are at the heart of development strategy

23/12/2011 Agriculture, Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Female face of migration, Food, Haiti, Latin America, Migration by Caritas Communications

Food security, especially that of children, is a major problem in Haiti. Caritas has put in place various initiatives in the province of Les Cayes in southern Haiti to deal with this issue. With the help of CRS, the local Caritas has set up more than 200 mothers groups. What’s a mothers group? “As the ...

Schools reopen in Haiti after 2010 Earthquake

23/12/2011 Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Haiti, Haiti, Latin America by Caritas Communications

“When the school collapsed, what was essential was finding the children. The rest was just material,” said Sr. Josette Drouinaud of the Mère Delia Institute for primary and secondary school girls in the bustling Delmas neighbourhood of the Port-au-Prince. When the earthquake of 12 January struck Haiti, the primary school crumbled. The students had finished ...

Quenching the rice fields’ thirst in Haiti

23/12/2011 Agriculture, Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Haiti, Food, Haiti, Latin America by Caritas Communications

Fednor, a farmer, is preparing what will soon be the main source of food for his family – a rice field. In Joque, in the province of Les Cayes, rice growing is the most common agricultural activity. The rice fields extend along each side of the road and provide a living for the majority of ...

‘You heard our cries’: hunger in East Africa

15/12/2011 Africa, Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Emergencies in East Africa, Kenya by Caritas Communications

Whenever there’s a way to farm, Caritas helps people help themselves. Irrigation projects Caritas developed in the 1990s and early 2000s saved many people during the 2011 drought. But with no rain, many herdsmen and farmers simply couldn’t produce food. So Caritas started trucking in drinking water and food, driving lorries over near-impassable dirt roads in villages the government can’t always reach.

In drought-stricken Horn of Africa, Caritas brings water to the thirsty

15/12/2011 Africa, Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Emergencies in East Africa, Kenya by Caritas Communications

In southern Kenya, wide riverbeds turned sandy and brown. Women used gourd shells to dig further and further down in the riverbeds, hoping to capture a few scoops of water.

East Africa after the Food Crisis

15/12/2011 Africa, Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Emergencies in East Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Middle East & North Africa, Somalia by Caritas Communications

Your support helped over one million people in East Africa overcome their worst drought in 60 years. You made it possible for Caritas to distribute emergency food, create water projects, and give out seeds so farmers can rebuild. In November 2011, Caritas Communications Officer Laura Sheahen visited Kenya to see the community response in action. ...

Kenyan students back to school after East Africa drought

15/12/2011 Africa, Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in East Africa, Kenya by Caritas Communications

By Laura Sheahen Alice had always been first in her class as a child, but now she kept getting kicked out of secondary school. “Every time people were sent home for lack of school fees, my name was on the list,” she says. “I was ashamed.” Education in Kenya is technically free, but in poor ...

Seeds of hope after drought in East Africa

15/12/2011 Africa, Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Emergencies in East Africa, Kenya by Caritas Communications

By Laura Sheahen “When you’re hungry, if you have seeds, you start cooking.” Kotola Susana grins ruefully as he describes the situation of many of his fellow Kenyan farmers. After years of poor rains culminated in a devastating drought in East Africa, farmers ran out of options. In southern Kenya, where they raise corn, sorghum ...

Haiti’s elderly get their zest back

15/11/2011 Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Haiti, Français, Haiti, Latin America by Caritas Communications

Available in French and Spanish By Ryan Worms “Just a little while ago, it was very hard for me to find something to eat. I didn’t feel strong, I didn’t know what to do and had no one to help me. Now I’ve got my energy back,” said sixty-year-old Olivia Jean Louis. She is part ...

New homes for Haitians

11/11/2011 Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Ecuador, Emergencies, Emergencies in Haiti, Haiti, Latin America by Caritas Communications

Almost two years on from the earthquake of 12 January 2010, more than 600,000 people are still displaced in camps. They live in extremely precarious conditions and their health security is at risk.