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Sudan votes: tears make way for hopes

21/01/2011 Africa, Aid Success Story, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, North America, Peacebuilding, South Sudan, Sudan, United States by Caritas Communications

by Renee Lambert, Emergency Coordinator Young Sudanese polling officials sat inside a small two room school, silently unfolding ballots while national and international observers looked on. It was just after 7 pm, the polls had closed 2 hours earlier. Outside the school the sun was setting, so the polling officials were counting by the light of ...

Haiti mourns its loss one year after quake

12/01/2011 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Haiti, Français, Haiti, Latin America, North America, United States by Caritas Communications

Read in French or Spanish Homily of Cardinal Robert Sarah, President of Pontifical Council Cor Unum Port-au-Prince, Haiti (Hebrews 2:14-18; Psalms 105:1-2, 3-4, 8-9; Mark 1:29-39) Cher tout people Haïtien: Moin poté la pé ak Ké Kontan Gran Mèt la pou nou. Dear Haitian people, I bring you the peace and joy of the Lord. Exactly ...

Message from the Caritas family in Haiti

11/01/2011 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Haiti, Haiti, Latin America by Caritas Communications

French | Spanish | Creole Message from the Caritas family in Haiti On the occasion of the first anniversary of the 12th January earthquake, the members of the Caritas Internationalis Confederation, in communion with Caritas Haiti, feel the need to express once more their proximity to all the victims of this tragedy. They reaffirm their ...

Sudan votes: scene from Port Juba

10/01/2011 Africa, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, Migration, North America, Peacebuilding, Refugees, South Sudan, Sudan, United States by Caritas Communications

by Karina O’Meara as told to Sara A. Fajardo It was mid-morning when we arrived to the Juba River Port last week and it was jostling with the sounds of people unloading bedding, horses, cars, and cooking supplies, from the four open-air containers that flanked a large passenger boat. An estimated 700 people had made ...

Sudan votes: Polling Day

9/01/2011 Africa, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, Migration, North America, Peacebuilding, Refugees, South Sudan, Sudan, United States by Caritas Communications

[slideshow]By Sara A. Fajardo, CRS Communications Officer in Juba People began arriving long before dawn. Some were rumored to have spent the night. By the time we arrived several hundred men and women snaked the grounds of St. Kizito parish in Juba, Sudan. The men stood in one line. The women stood in another. Many ...

Pakistan’s child camel jockeys get a fresh start

24/06/2010 Blog, Migration, Minor migrants, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

Falak Sher took his young son and his nephew from their rural village in Pakistan’s Punjab region to race as camel jockeys in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 1998. He was in search of a fortune, but found a nightmare. Once there, his children were starved to keep their weights at the minimum for ...