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World Day Against Trafficking: Caritas Internationalis calls for stringent measures to fight this crime against the most vulnerable

29/07/2022 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Labor exploitation, Trafficking by daniele piccini

The recent outflow of Ukrainian survivors of the present conflict in Ukraine into other parts of Europe brought to evidence how unscrupulous predators were waiting to exploit the plight of the women fleeing the country. Today cyberspace has become a easy means for human trafficking. Every day, the most vulnerable, women, men and children, especially ...

CARITAS INTERNATIONALIS URGES IMMEDIATE ACTION TO ADDRESS THE SEVERE DROUGHT AND FOOD INSECURITY IN THE HORN OF AFRICA AND IN THE SAHEL

18/07/2022 Africa, Agriculture, Burkina, Chad, Climate Change, Emergencies, Emergencies in the Sahel, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Food, Food Crisis, Food waste, Kenya, Mali, Malnutrition, Mauritania, Migration, Niger, South Sudan, Sudan by daniele piccini

With the close of the 50th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva this month, Caritas Internationalis is urging international and local leaders to take action in responding to the severe food insecurity in the Horn of Africa and the Sahel regions. The right to food is a basic human right and the implementation ...

OLHA BISYK: WORKING IN CARITAS, I CAN ALSO BECOME THE PERSON WHO LENDS A HAND TO SOMEONE

20/06/2022 Emergencies in Ukraine, Refugees by daniele piccini

No one plans to have to urgently leave their home, to leave behind everything you have gained over the years of effort and work. On the early morning of February 24 millions of Ukrainians woke up in the horrific reality of the war due to the Russian invasion. Millions of Ukrainians were forced to take ...

SISTER PAULA JAGODA VOLUNTEERS AT THE POLISH-UKRAINIAN BORDER

28/03/2022 Crisis in Ukraine, Emergencies, Emergencies in Ukraine, Migration, Ukraine by daniele piccini

Sister Paula Jagoda has been volunteering in Przemyśl for Caritas Poland for three days. A native of Poland, she has lived in Ukraine for 27 years. It was difficult for her to leave her country of choice. She has tears in her eyes. A week ago, she left the convent in Malyns’kyi near Kiev. Together ...

TANYA GARHIN AND HER SON NIKITA HAD TO LEAVE THEIR FAMILY BEHIND IN UKRAINE

27/03/2022 Conflicts and Disasters, Crisis in Ukraine, Emergencies, Emergencies in Ukraine, Migration, Refugees, Ukraine by daniele piccini

Tanya Garhin sits pensively on her bed. Her son Nikita is looking for her shoulder to lean on. Again and again, she looks at her cell phone. She can’t seem to find what she’s looking for. Her gaze wanders into the void. Mother and son are the only ones from her family who have so ...

Crisis in Ukraine, two Polish fiancée work as Caritas volunteers for the first time

23/03/2022 Crisis in Ukraine, Emergencies in Ukraine, Refugees, Ukraine by daniele piccini

Kuba Sadecki and Anna Gurnikewicz are volunteering for Caritas for the first time. A long time ago, Kuba had once volunteered to help out during a flood disaster when he was in school. Why he was drawn to the Ukrainian border, he can’t answer exactly – it just felt like the right thing to do. He’s ...

Rodina Vronyny, Kiril (2), and Nadya (9) come from a suburb of Kyiv. They reached the border with Poland by car

22/03/2022 Crisis in Ukraine, Emergencies in Ukraine, Refugees, Ukraine by daniele piccini

When the bombing near Kiev became unbearable, Rodina Vronyny, Kiril and Nadya left their home in a suburb of Kiev by car. They spent the night in Lviv, then Nadya and Kiril’s father drove them to the border. There, he had to say goodbye and go back to Kiev to fight in the war. It ...

“With my work as a Caritas volunteer, I can support Ukrainian refugees” (Sven Klimaschweski)

21/03/2022 Crisis in Ukraine, Emergencies, Emergencies in Ukraine, Refugees, Ukraine by daniele piccini

Sven Klimaschewski, 35, spent the weekend tinkering at a car with a friend. The radio news about the war in Ukraine made him want to provide support himself. He contacted various organizations. He didn’t want to just drive to the Polish-Ukrainian border. That made no sense, says Sven Klimaschewski. “Nothing is worse than blocking the ...

Ukrainian refugee Khalina Stoyanowka works now as a Caritas volunteer

20/03/2022 Crisis in Ukraine, Emergencies, Emergencies in Ukraine, Refugees, Ukraine by daniele piccini

The future was too uncertain for Khalina Stoyanowka. She waited for days for the war to end. She would have preferred to go back to work. She teaches Polish and Ukrainian. There was no end in sight. She decided to flee to Poland together with her daughters Alexandra and Veronika. There, her eldest daughter Irena ...

“Helping is my job. It’s part of my oath as a firefighter and I always uphold that oath. That’s why I’m here”. (Paweł Szuzdak)

19/03/2022 Advocacy, Migration, Ukraine by daniele piccini

Paweł Szuzdak is a firefighter through and through. He works professionally in the fire department and helps out at the local volunteer fire department after work and on his days off. When the war broke out in Ukraine, the local mayor (city unnamed) sent volunteers to the Caritas logistics center. Here, several tons of aid ...