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East Africa, one year later

9/08/2012 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Emergencies in Ethiopia, Ethiopia, Food, Kenya, Malnutrition, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Refugees, Somalia by Caritas Communications

The situation in 2011 was very critical. Thanks to the Caritas member organisations who supported us, our programmes have saved lives. Supplementary food has been distributed for some malnourished children in some pocket areas through Catholic health institutions and this contributed to save lives of this children.

Restocking Ethiopia’s cattle

10/02/2012 Africa, Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Ethiopia, Ethiopia by Caritas Communications

By Makeda Yohannes/ECS Before drought struck Ethiopia in 2011, Mulu Jaletu owned five oxen, enough to help his farm support his 12 children. But with no rain falling, his crops would often fail. As his money ran out, he was forced to sell one ox at a time so he could buy food for his ...

East Africa after the Food Crisis

15/12/2011 Africa, Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Emergencies in East Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Middle East & North Africa, Somalia by Caritas Communications

Your support helped over one million people in East Africa overcome their worst drought in 60 years. You made it possible for Caritas to distribute emergency food, create water projects, and give out seeds so farmers can rebuild. In November 2011, Caritas Communications Officer Laura Sheahen visited Kenya to see the community response in action. ...

Photo gallery: fighting hunger in East Africa

15/12/2011 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Ethiopia, Food, Kenya, Malnutrition by Caritas Communications

“Mothers said their children were too weak to walk to the clinic,” says a nurse who treated malnourished people in northern Kenya during the worst of 2011’s drought. Throughout East Africa, poor rains led to hunger on a massive scale. By late 2011, your gifts had turned things around. Caritas immediately distributed emergency food, but ...

No Plan B in Ethiopia

20/10/2011 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Ethiopia, Ethiopia, Food, Malnutrition by Caritas Communications

The food crisis in East Africa hit the headlines over the summer. Resources were mobilised around the world to support communities in need as drought in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia put millions of people in peril. Val Morgan of SCIAF (Caritas Scotland) reports from southern Ethiopia that although the news attention may have moved on, ...

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 ...

East Africa food crisis a ‘tragedy of biblical proportions’

12/10/2011 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Ethiopia, Kenya, Middle East & North Africa, Somalia by Caritas Communications

Ken Hackett, President of Catholic Relief Services (a Caritas member in the USA), spoke about the Horn of Africa food crisis at a press conference held in Rome on 7 October. Having worked in East Africa for over 35 years, I am deeply saddened to witness a tragedy of biblical proportions unfolding again. I thank ...

Church and Caritas leaders discuss East Africa food crisis

7/10/2011 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Ethiopia, Ethiopia, Food, Kenya, Malnutrition by Caritas Communications

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pNYdUwe2zHA] “He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside still waters.” It’s a phrase known to Christians around the world, one of the most beloved verses of a beloved psalm. It was the psalm Pope Benedict XVI referred to during his weekly audience Wednesday 5 October which ended with an appeal ...

Q and A Horn of Africa

6/10/2011 Advocacy, Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in East Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Middle East & North Africa, Somalia by Caritas Communications

What is the humanitarian situation in the Horn of Africa? In Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, and nearby areas, a severe drought has led to massive numbers of people going hungry. Famine has been declared in several districts of Somalia. Because goats and cattle are dying of thirst and starvation, people who herd livestock are losing their ...

Caritas launches appeal to help drought-hit Ethiopians

26/08/2011 Africa, Ethiopia, News, Press Release by Caritas Communications

Caritas is appealing for EUR 1,489,048 (US $2,149,143 million) to help Ethiopia during its most severe drought in 60 years. Four and a half million people in the country are in need of immediate food aid. Crops have failed, livestock have died, and water sources both for drinking and irrigation have dried up. “Caritas’ intervention ...