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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. ...

Pakistan floods one year on

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

Pakistan had seen nothing like it in 80 years when monsoon rains swept across the country in the summer of 2010. The subsequent floods affected 18 million people and put one-fifth of the country under water. People lost their homes and possessions, livelihoods and in some cases their lives. One year on, Caritas has helped ...

Changing lives in Bangladesh

20/07/2011 Advocacy, Agriculture, Asia, Bangladesh, Climate Change, Conflicts and Disasters, Development, Disaster Preparedness, Food, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

By Caritas Bangladesh staff Fishing for crabs in the vast mangrove forest of the Sundarbans in Bangladesh is a dangerous way to make a living. A local poem says you always have a ‘shiver of fear’ as you travel the complex network of waterways, mudflats and small islands because the Royal Bengal Tiger does not ...

Promoting the rights of farmers in Asia

20/07/2011 Advocacy, Agriculture, Asia, Food by Caritas Communications

Caritas Asia members promote organic agriculture and farmers’ rights across the region through the Sustainable Agriculture and Farmers’ Rights (SAFaR) programme. The Farmers’ Conference (FC) is one of the major yearly events of the programme. Here grassroots level farmers gather together, learn and share their concerns and raise their voice to protect their rights. We ...

War in Kyrgyzstan

7/07/2011 Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Peacebuilding by Caritas Communications

“When I was watching our house burn down, I asked God for only one thing,” said Sohiba Mamatova. “To let my husband live. ”He did, though he was badly beaten by a mob in the street. This was Kyrgyzstan in June 2010, when ethnic violence turned neighbour against neighbour. Sohiba, 43, escaped with her teenage ...

Recovering from trauma after an earthquake in China

7/07/2011 Asia, China, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies by Caritas Communications

Zhou Ma withdrew into grief when she and her elder 25-year-old daughter were both widowed by the April earthquake in China’s western Qinghai province. Zhou Ma, who is 45, felt the heavy responsibility of caring also for her 15-year-old younger daughter and grandson who was only four. It was a family tragedy and she became ...

Floods in Pakistan

7/07/2011 Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Pakistan, Pakistan by Caritas Communications

At the end of August 2010, almost one fifth of Pakistan was underwater. Along its entire length, the Indus river had burst its banks, washing away homes, destroying crops and livestock and bringing disease. For the 20 million people affected by the floods, it was an unparalleled disaster. “We were sleeping when I heard screams ...

Caritas anniversaries

7/07/2011 Africa, Asia, Cambodia, Latin America, North America, Pakistan, Peru, Rwanda, Uncategorised, United States by Caritas Communications

The strength and history of the Caritas confederation shone strongly in 2010 with several members celebrating significant anniversaries.

Keeping lines of communication open with North Korea

7/07/2011 Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Korea, South by Caritas Communications

A million North Korean children were vaccinated against hepatitis B in a campaign run by the Ministry of Health with Caritas support in 2010. The children, aged from six to sixteen, are from North and South Pyongyang, but an extended campaign aims to reach close to four million children countrywide.

Strengthening Caritas

7/07/2011 Aid Success Story, Asia, Governance by Caritas Communications

“Financial reporting of a high standard is very helpful. It attracts extra financial and other resources,” said Dr Benedict Alo D’Rozario, Executive Director of Caritas Bangladesh, drawing on lessons he learned in his student days in the USA in the 1980s. Dr Alo shared his experiences with staff from the Caritas Asia and Oceania regions ...