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What’s wrong with the EU’s Pact on Migration?

12/04/2024 Advocacy, Europe, Migration, Minor migrants, News, Refugees by daniele piccini

Today’s European Parliament plenary vote on the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum marks the end of lengthy negotiations to reform the European rules on asylum. Caritas Europa is concerned about its potential negative impact on thousands of people’s lives, as the new rules clearly limit access to protection for those in need. Regretfully, the ...

“Let us Build Supporting Structures Around Women”

1/03/2024 Europe, Georgia, Women by daniele piccini

If I would be asked to give Caritas a human face, I would give it a woman’s face. We do not need to do a serious research to find out that the majority of care workers in Caritas are women. It is just visible! At the same time, research has shown that the majority of ...

Second Year of War in Ukraine: Caritas Prepares Long-Term Plans

23/02/2024 Crisis in Ukraine, Emergencies in Ukraine, Press Release, Ukraine by daniele piccini

Two years after the beginning of the war and nearly a decade after the conflict in the east of the country, the humanitarian situation in Ukraine continues to deteriorate and will not improve if hostilities do not stop. This is the picture described by the two local Caritas organisations – Caritas Ukraine and Caritas-Spes Ukraine ...

Two Years of War in Ukraine. Mother and Daughter play “Life is Beautiful”

23/02/2024 Ukraine by daniele piccini

Once upon a time, in a country where laughter mingled with tears and hope shone even in the darkest of times, there lived a little Ukrainian girl named Milana. Milana was a funny, pretty girl with sparkling eyes that held galaxies of curiosity and wonder. Her infectious laughter echoed through the corridors of the Caritas ...

Ukraine. The Creative Center Kharkiv helps Children to Cope with War

23/02/2024 Crisis in Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine by daniele piccini

This project, in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, offers 800 children and an additional 200 parents from socially precarious and economically disadvantaged backgrounds help and support, in coping with everyday life every year and now more important than ever. At the beginning of the war, many of the project beneficiaries fled to other parts ...

One Year after the Earthquake in Syria. Caritas was the First Light of Hope after the Disaster

5/02/2024 Earthquake, Earthquake Syria Turkey 2023, Emergencies in Syria, Syria, Turkey by daniele piccini

Yasmine Halalish lives in Aleppo with her husband, Fathi Moustafa, as the stepmother of three children: Raneem, who needs special health care, Tasneem and Mouhammad Moustafa. Their birth mother died. Please tell me about the time after the earthquake. Did you receive any aid? «We did receive aid from Caritas Syria: canned food, hygiene kits ...

EARTHQUAKE IN SYRIA AND TURKEY, ONE YEAR OF CARITAS HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE AND THE CALL FOR SILENCE NOT TO FALL

5/02/2024 Earthquake, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Press Release, Turkey by daniele piccini

One year after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Turkey and Syria on 6 February 2023, local Caritas organisations, supported by the entire Caritas network, continue to support the local population in dire need. In Turkey, the National Caritas, together with Caritas Anatolia, supported by Caritas Istanbul and Izmir, have been active from the first moments, ...

War in Syria. A story told in Caritas Anatolia Listening Centres

4/12/2023 Syria, Turkey by daniele piccini

We could finally afford to live in the house of our dreams. It was outside the centre of Homs, the family home, big and spacious. After years of hard work as a teacher, my husband had saved enough money to renovate it. I was happy, finally our children would have enough space to grow up happy. ...

Nagorno-Karabakh: Caritas urges the EU and UN to increase their humanitarian response

28/09/2023 Advocacy, Armenia, Europe by Maria Kristina Millare

As the Armenian Caritas is already present near the border to assist evacuees leaving Nagorno-Karabakh, the international confederation mobilises funds and calls all parties to respect human rights. As of today, over 60,000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh have fled to Armenia following a nine-month long blockade of the region and last week’s military intervention. Caritas Internationalis ...

COPING WITH FLOODS IN GREECE: THE CRUCIAL ROLE OF CARITAS AID

20/09/2023 Floods, Greece, News by daniele piccini

Torrential rains that affected the area of Thessaly in Greece in early September lead to devastating consequences in all disaster-affected zones and villiages in Volos, Pilion, Trikala, Karditsa and in the Thessalia plain region. A week after the devastating floods, the amount of mud damage to thousands of homes and hundreds of businesses has increased ...