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Enormous catastrophe, enormous response in Japan

13/10/2011 Aid Success Story, Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Japan by Caritas Communications

“I saw the water rising, and then the huge wave. Then the sea and the land were covered with fire—the whole city was on fire.” The words aren’t out of Revelations. Masato Sakamoto, a resident of Kesennumma on Japan’s east coast, is describing the events of 11 March 2011. “While it was burning, at sunset, ...

In Ethiopia, intensive care for cattle

13/10/2011 Africa, Agriculture, Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Ethiopia, Ethiopia, Food by Caritas Communications

By Val Morgan, Media Officer for SCIAF On some days in the field, I almost despair. It was a red-hot morning and we drove two hours to see a cattle feeding centre and destocking programme in Miyo, a village in southern Ethiopia. The more we drove the drier the landscape became until eventually it was ...

Keeping a promise: Caritas helps Pakistan’s latest flood victims

28/09/2011 Aid Success Story, Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Pakistan, Pakistan by Caritas Communications

In summer 2011, heavy monsoon rains inundated southern Pakistan, an area already reeling from massive floods in 2010. Here, a survivor tells her story.

Small businesses back to work in Japan after quake

16/09/2011 Aid Success Story, Asia, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Japan by Caritas Communications

[slideshow] By Laura Sheahen in Kesennumma If you’d worked all your life to build up a business, only to see it swept away in minutes by a gargantuan wave, you’d be forgiven for wanting to give up. The aging residents of Japan’s east coast lost decades of labour when a tsunami struck in March 2011. ...

Japan after the quake

12/09/2011 Aid Success Story, Asia, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Japan by Caritas Communications

By Laura Sheahen in Kamaishi When you’re in a tsunami-hit zone, there are no ground floors. At my six-story hotel in Kamaishi, a town on the east coast of Japan, signs point the way to a staircase surrounded by what I assume are “under construction” signs. From the top of the stairs, the third stories ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rebuilding life on Manchar Lake in Pakistan

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

The fishing communities who survive on the produce of Manchar Lake in Sindh, Pakistan could never have imagined that the source of their livelihoods would one day destroy everything they owned. The lake is the biggest in Pakistan and has sustained generations of their families, with 20,000 people currently dependent on it for their survival. ...