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Hunger in Kenya and how to stop it

28/07/2011 Advocacy, Africa, Agriculture, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in East Africa, Food, Kenya, Malnutrition by Caritas Communications

The land is barren, the animals are dead, the people are starving. This is one face of northern Kenya in July 2011. “The famine started last year,” says Ellela from the village of Lokitaung. “There were no rains last year or this year. We have had drought for two years. If there are no people ...

Ethiopia’s failing rains

27/07/2011 Africa, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Ethiopia, Ethiopia, Food, Malnutrition, North America, United States by Caritas Communications

By David Snyder You are not expecting rain when you come to cover a drought. But that’s what I found when I stepped off of the plane here Sunday—and what I have seen each day since. Rain. Looking around at the green of the hillsides, you could easily be fooled about the real problems facing ...

Yes, we must. Stopping a disaster in Kenya

27/07/2011 Africa, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Food, Kenya, Malnutrition by Caritas Communications

By Eoghan Rice The Turkana district of northern Kenya is where human life began. The earliest known human remains have been found here and in the areas just north across the Ethiopian border. The fact that human life has been sustained here for hundreds of thousands of years points to a fertile land capable of ...

Planting seeds of recovery after Pakistan’s floods

27/07/2011 Agriculture, Aid Success Story, Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Pakistan, Food, Pakistan by Caritas Communications

Ghulam Akber clutches his bag of cotton seed and knows he is holding his future. The seeds are the key to 22-year-old Ghulam rebuilding his life. More than anything, he needs a new house. But to get a new house, he needs money; to get money, he needs a crop; to get a crop, he ...

Helping Ethiopia through drought

26/07/2011 Africa, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Ethiopia, Ethiopia, Food, Malnutrition by Caritas Communications

2011 is one of the worst droughts to hit East Africa and the Horn of Africa in living memory, including the east of Ethiopia. The local Caritas there is called the Hararghe Catholic Secretariat. It’s part of the national Caritas organisation (the Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat), and is supported by a number of Caritas members from ...

No time to lose says East Africa crisis summit

25/07/2011 Advocacy, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Ethiopia, Food, Malnutrition by Caritas Communications

Caritas Internationalis Policy Director Martina Liebsch reports on a ministerial level meeting at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome about the drought in the Horn of Africa. The outgoing director of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Jacques Diouf had called the emergency meeting to address the food crisis in East Africa. The ...

Fleeing Somalia as famine declared

21/07/2011 Africa, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Food, Kenya, Malnutrition, Migration, Refugees by Caritas Communications

By Laura Sheahen They’ve walked for days or weeks, and their shoes show it. Dusty and worn, the sandals of a little boy dangle in his hand as he wails in the centre of a refugee camp. Nearby, his mother rocks her sobbing baby. The family has made it to the camp, one of several ...

Green Tips from Catholic Health Association in the U.S.

20/07/2011 Advocacy, Catholic Teaching, Climate Change, Food, North America, United States by Caritas Communications

In the United States, Catholic hospitals, medical centers and health care centers came together in 1915 to form the Catholic Health Association (CHA). Its goal was to support one another in the ministry to the sick, the poor and the vulnerable. Today CHA remains dedicated to serving the nation’s Catholic health care organisations and supporting ...

Climate change in Algeria

20/07/2011 Advocacy, Algeria, Climate Change, Food, Middle East & North Africa by Caritas Communications

By Caritas Algeria staff Like many countries in Africa, Algeria has not been spared by the effects of extreme or unseasonal weather. Known for its arid and semi-arid climate, the region is highly vulnerable to changes in climate. Over the last 50 years, an increase in extreme weather events has been observed. Phenomena that bear ...

Church report calls for urgent action on glaciers

20/07/2011 Advocacy, Climate Change, Food by Caritas Communications

By Christine Campeau, Caritas Internationalis Human actions are having ‘‘serious and potentially irreversible impacts’ on the warming of the Earth, according to a report published by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in April. The report, ‘Fate of Mountain Glaciers in the Anthropocene’, looks at one specific area of climate impact: the melting of mountain glaciers. ...