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Imagine compassion in a crisis: Recovery in Myanmar

2/12/2009 Aid Success Story, Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Myanmar by Caritas Communications

2008 saw tragic scenes in Myanmar, India, Nepal, the Caribbean and Honduras as storms killed thousands. Caritas relief efforts provided food, shelter, medicine and compassion as it appealed for US $77 million worldwide in 2008 in 40 separate appeals. In May, Cyclone Nargis hit the Irrawaddy Delta in Myanmar (also known as Burma), leaving 134,000 ...

Photo Gallery of Schools Reopening in Haiti

2/12/2009 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Haiti, Haiti, Latin America by Caritas Communications

‘Darfur must not become a forgotten emergency’

16/11/2009 Advocacy, Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, Sudan by Caritas Communications

Darfur is in danger of becoming a forgotten emergency, according to Nyika Musiyazwiriyo, the outgoing Head of Programmes for the joint ACT/Caritas Darfur Programme. “Darfur is slipping from our minds,” explains Nyika. “Funding for humanitarian work in the region has decreased substantially since the conflict first came to international attention. And Darfur is no longer ...

Myanmar on Cyclone Nargis Anniversary

3/09/2009 Aid Success Story, Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Myanmar by Caritas Communications

One year on from Cylcone Nargis which took the lives of more than 140,000people and left more than two million people without homes, the Caritas network continues to bring dignity to those affected. Caritas has supplied over 100,000 people with basic food staples, around 40,000 people with non food items such as blankets and mosquito ...

Enough to Sri Lanka’s pain

3/09/2009 Advocacy, Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Sri Lanka, Peacebuilding, Sri Lanka by Caritas Communications

Caritas is urging all sides in Sri Lanka’s civil war to end their hostilities immediately to prevent further loss of lives to children and other innocent civilians. The 25-year old conflict has reached a peak in the last year with between 70,000 and 250,000 people displaced in last remaining pocket of fighting in Vanni. Caritas ...

The ailments of fear plague Gaza

3/09/2009 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Jerusalem, Middle East & North Africa by Caritas Communications

Mrs Asmahan suffers from constant abdominal pain and her 18-year-old son has started to wet the bed. Even though the Israeli attacks on Gaza were three months ago, the fear and the consequences of it are very much present in people’s lives. “I lost my house and all my belongings,” says Mrs Asmahan. “It is ...

Gazans homeless alone

3/09/2009 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Jerusalem, Middle East & North Africa by Caritas Communications

Over the past few days Gaza has experienced cold like never before. Rain and hail have battered the cities and the biting wind has meant that the best place for most people was at home. But for thousands of people made homeless following Israel’s three-week assault on the Gaza Strip, their refuge is nothing more ...

Goma suffers as Congo unrest continues

3/09/2009 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Congo, Democratic Republic of, Emergencies, Emergencies in Congo, Peacebuilding by Caritas Communications

Seven people killed and 255 houses burnt down in rebel attacks in North Kivu, eastern Congo. The news to come from Caritas Congo yesterday was bleak, like it has been for months. First there were stories of conflict and displacements, then the stories of child soldiers and rapes. Even a volcano may now erupt near Goma in ...

Unprecedented human tragedy in Sri Lanka

3/09/2009 Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka by Caritas Communications

Caritas says innocent civilians are dying in Sri Lanka due to indiscriminate bombing by both the army and rebels with thousands more wounded and suffering. Caritas says the country is facing a humanitarian crisis with at least 250,000 people trapped in the conflict zone in Vanni in the northeast as government forces battle Tamil rebels ...

Zimbabwean refugees abused in South Africa

3/09/2009 Advocacy, Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Humanitarian Crisis in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Zimbabwe by Caritas Communications

They escaped with their lives from a country in collapse. They fled often with nothing. They came to the region’s richest and most powerful nation looking for protection. However, they have been welcomed with abuse, discrimination and a blindness to their plight. Approximately 3,000 Zimbabwean men, women, children and babies are trapped in dire conditions ...