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Caritas aids Somali refugee women in Kenya

16/05/2012 Africa, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Female face of migration, Kenya, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Refugees, Somalia by Caritas Internationalis

In summer 2011, when famine and violence were engulfing her country, Fadumo “Mama” Sharif Mohamed left Somalia with her husband and ten children. On their eight-day trek to the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, militia attacked them and they lost the family’s food. Her children, like thousands of others, suffered from malnutrition. But she and ...

Delivering aid inside Syria

9/05/2012 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Internationalis

Selim* has been working for Caritas Syria in Aleppo for three months helping people with food and other aid. He says Aleppo has been hit hard by the economic crisis in Syria. The conflict and international sanctions have led to high levels of inflation and unemployment across the country. Caritas helps poor families and especially ...

Syrian church calls for an end to cycle of violence

4/05/2012 Advocacy, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Internationalis

By Patrick Nicholson The Catholic Church in Syria has made this powerful statement on the crisis there, where daily violence continues to have a deadly toll and more people are crossing the borders to neighbouring countries. The statement is in French. It’s calling for an end to the violence and especially all forms of intimidation ...

Mali gets worse says Church

20/04/2012 Africa, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in the Sahel, Mali, Migration, Refugees by Caritas Internationalis

Fears are growing over the humanitarian situation in northern Mali. Some 268,000 people have now fled northern areas seized last month by Tuareg rebels and Islamists.

Caritas Jordan aiding Syrian refugees while Pope pledges Caritas Syria Easter donation

28/03/2012 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Migration, Refugees by Caritas Internationalis

Refugees continue to flee conflict in Syria to Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. Meanwhile, the Vatican has announced that Pope Benedict’s Holy Thursday Mass collection in St. John’s basilica will go to Caritas Syria for humanitarian assistance to Syrian’s forced from their homes because of the conflict. In the latest update from Caritas Jordan, staff say ...

Caritas in Lebanon and Jordan doing more to help Syrian refugees

23/03/2012 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Internationalis

By Patrick Nicholson Syrian refugees continue to flee into neighbouring Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon. They’re trying to escape fighting between government and opposition forces that began last March. Caritas members in the region are looking to respond to the growing needs of the refugees. Living conditions are difficult. Hamid* brought his wife and children from ...

Caritas aid reaches Syrian refugees in Lebanon

16/03/2012 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Internationalis

“The situation is bad,” said Fatima*. She had arrived from Syria into Lebanon that morning with five of her seven children. They’d fled from Kosayr, a suburb of Homs that’s currently undergoing heavy shelling as fighting continues between the government and opposition forces. Her husband stayed on while her teenage boys were stopped from leaving. ...

Bhutanese refugees in Nepal: A day in the life

13/03/2012 Advocacy, Asia, Blog, Female face of migration, Migration, Nepal, Refugees, Trafficking by Caritas Internationalis

In the early 1990s the country of Bhutan, in the Himalayas, forcibly drove out over 100,000 ethnic Nepalis they claimed were not true citizens. These Bhutanese refugees ended up in eastern Nepal as migrants in limbo. Required to stay in refugee camps, they’ve lived for 20 years without electricity or good health care. The camp ...

Mali refugees in Niger need clean water

9/03/2012 Africa, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Mali, Migration, Niger, North America, Refugees, United States by Caritas Internationalis

By Helen Blakesley and Caritas Internationalis staff American Caritas member Catholic Relief Services, Caritas Niger (SECADEV) and its partners are mobilising emergency water, hygiene and sanitation facilities to meet the urgent needs of thousands of Malian refugees in neighbouring Niger. Fighting in northern Mali between the army and a rebel group has forced more than ...

Female face of migration

7/03/2012 Advocacy, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Migration, Minor migrants, Refugees, Trafficking by Caritas Internationalis

When impoverished women decide to leave their countries to work abroad, they often are deceived or abused. Smugglers and human traffickers may exploit them, forcing them to work as unpaid prostitutes or beggars. Women who become domestic workers are sometimes beaten, overworked, or not paid. Many women leave behind their own families to care for ...