Mexico Archives - Page 3 of 3

Money will talk at Cancun climate summit

13/10/2010 Advocacy, Climate Change, Development, Food, High-Level Meetings and Events, Latin America, Mexico by Caritas Communications

By Christine Campeau, Caritas Internationalis Financing climate adaptation in developing countries is a must. It will determine the success of the upcoming United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 16th Conference of the Parties (COP 16) in Cancun, Mexico in 29 November to 10 December 2010. There is widespread pessimism over the lack of ...

Heartbreaking story in the Gulf of Mexico

30/06/2010 Climate Change, Food, Latin America, Mexico by Caritas Communications

By Kathy Brown, CCUSA American Caritas member Catholic Charities agencies in Louisiana continue to reach out to those impacted by the environmental disaster still unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico. In New Orleans, Catholic Charities has helped over 1,500 fishermen hit by oil spill in 5 relief centers providing food and food vouchers, baby items, ...

Imagine compassion in a crisis: Preparing for next time

2/12/2009 Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Latin America, Mexico by Caritas Communications

Life since the 2007 Mexico floods has been a learning curve for Hugo Gutierrez. He said Caritas Tabasco’s small team was almost overwhelmed when the disaster happened. After the floods Mr Gutierrez did emergency response training to ensure that if the floods ever came again, people would be better protected. “We learned about how to ...

Lessons learned in Tabasco floods

3/11/2008 Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Latin America, Mexico by Caritas Communications

It is a year since heavy rains caused massive floods which affected one million people in Tabasco, Mexico. Caritas was on the ground and made sure people had food, water and shelter during the worst part of the disaster. Once the emergency was over, Caritas turned its focus to building people’s knowledge and resources to face any ...

Facing the Tabasco floods

3/11/2008 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Latin America, Mexico by Caritas Communications

Last Christmas was a very poor one for Mr Hernández and his family. The massive floods in Tabasco in October and November had ruined hectares of his crops and many of his poultry had died of infections, so he had very little to sell at the market. Mr Hernández had one metre of water in ...

Father Saúl de Jesús Solís Vera, Caritas Tabasco Director during the Tabasco Flood

3/11/2008 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Latin America, Mexico by Caritas Communications

When you’ve just started a new job the last thing you need is to find yourself at the centre of a disaster where many people are turning to you for help This is what happened to Father Saúl de Jesús Solís Vera last year just a few months after he’d started working at Caritas in ...

Erica Dahl-Bredine, Mexico Country Representative for Catholic Relief Services during the Tabasco Flood

3/11/2008 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Latin America, Mexico, North America, United States by Caritas Communications

The only way Erica Dahl-Bredine could reach the trouble spots of flooded Tabasco last November was by army helicopter. “As we flew into Villahermosa, the capital city of Tabasco, everything as far as the eye could see was under water. Whole villages, farmland, almost everything,” says Ms. Dahl-Bredine, Mexico country representative for Catholic Relief Services ...

Hugo Diaz Gutierrez, Caritas Tabasco Logistics Officer during the Tabasco Flood

3/11/2008 Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Latin America, Mexico by Caritas Communications

Life since the 2007 floods has been a learning curve for Hugo Gutierrez. Last year he was one of the three part-timers working for Caritas Tabasco when the disaster happened. Father Saul hired a few more people so Gutierrez became a part of a team of seven, but there was still no denying the enormity ...

Emilie Della Corte, Emergency Programme Officer during the Tabasco Flood

3/11/2008 Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Latin America, Mexico by Caritas Communications

Soon after the Mexican floods hit, Caritas launched an appeal for US$2 million to help the people of Tabasco. Emilie Della Corte works for Caritas Internationalis’ (CI) Emergency Response team in Rome. She and another colleague went to Mexico City to support Caritas Mexico in developing their emergency appeal. The document would request donations from ...

International AIDS Conference wraps up

15/08/2008 Advocacy, Health, HIV & AIDS, Latin America, Mexico by Caritas Communications

AIDS representatives speaking at the end of the International AIDS Conference 2008, which took place in Mexico City from 3-5 August, have emphasised the need for a combined prevention package. “There is a lot of work that needs to be done. It needs to be done and it must continue but we can’t sit down ...