By Edwyn Shiell, Act for Peace – Campaigns & Communication Coordinator The Norwegian Church Aid (a Caritas partner) Water and Sanitation facility in Bilel Camp is a humble thatched building. ...
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By Edwyn Shiell, Act for Peace – Campaigns & Communication Coordinator “It’s difficult to talk about HIV and AIDS in Darfur. You can’t really talk about it openly in the ...
The situation in the Holy Land has escalated again following to the assault on a flotilla headed towards the Gaza Strip on May 31. However, His Beatitude Fouad Twal, Latin ...
The global recession of 2008/2009 has increased the number of people living in poverty across Europe to 85 million and also the number of those living on the breadline. Delegates ...
By Mathilde Magnier “For the past three months there’ve been 16 people sitting down to eat every evening,” says Sébien Danbrevil. Up to 600,000 people fled Port-au-Prince for outlying areas ...
For me the death of Archbishop Oscar Romero is one of the saddest moments of my life. By bravely speaking out on behalf of the poor and oppressed he paid ...
When Colombia’s war reached Eva Mape’s home town and her apartment block was blown up, she realised it was time to leave. “We had no choice but to go. The ...
For some people, life’s certainties don’t even stretch to the safety of a home. Fighting in Colombia between rebels, paramiliatries and the Government for over 45 years has forced millions ...
Climate change has a major impact on the availability of food and water. It particularly effects communities in hot zones with limited agricultural land and restricted access to water. Ethiopia ...
By guest writer Walter E. Grazer, Special Adviser for National Religious Partnership for the Environment US politics surrounding climate change remains contentious and uncertain. While the US House of Representatives ...
Bara is a village situated in the drought-prone area in Jharkhand State in eastern India. Difficult climate conditions and complete dependency on rain means that farmers only produce one crop ...
Protecting the planet for future generations requires self-sacrifices for the good of others. Our obligations to the human family stretch across generations. We are borrowing the earth’s natural resources from ...
The Copenhagen summit on finding a climate change action plan has failed. World leaders produced a weak toothless deal that will not help the poor in developing countries deal with ...
As climate change is heatedly debated by world leaders, communities in Darfur are finding sustainable solutions to water shortages in Internally Displaced Peoples (IDP) Camps. The rainy season in South ...
Caritas members from around the world are travelling to Copenhagen to lobby governments at a key climate change meeting. The UN summit (called the UNFCCC) is set to agree targets ...
Caritas members from around the world are in Copenhagen lobbying governments at a key climate change meeting. The UN summit (the UNFCCC) is set to agree targets for cutting the ...
Reaching the communities of El Porvenir is no easy task. The steep, 8km climbing track is often impassable by vehicle during the storm season.
By: Christine Campeau, Caritas Internationalis The Copenhagen Summit on climate change brought together 115 heads of state and governments. More than 40,000 people applied for accreditation. It was a grand ...
More than a year after the war, people in Gaza continue to suffer from poverty, poor access to health care and psychological distress. The Caritas mobile clinic is composed of ...
By Mathilde Magnier In Port-au-Prince there are a number of neighbourhoods which aren’t considered a priority but which were hard hit by the earthquake.Caritas is working in these communities At ...
By Mathilde Magnier As the resettlement of hundreds of thousands of earthquake victims in Port-au-Prince becomes ever more challenging ahead of the rainy season, Caritas starts setting up temporary shelter ...
By Mathilde Magnier in Haiti “The children’s laughter just changes the atmosphere, it is the most therapeutic thing in the world ! Since we started with activities for the little ones, ...
By Mathilde Magnier As many humanitarian organizations have started to withdraw their temporary medical units from the city of Léogàne, about 50 km from the capital Port-au-Prince, Caritas health centres ...
By Mathilde Magnier Seated on a little bench in the shade of the large tarpaulins that are used as class rooms on her former school playground, Kethia Phélizaire is straightening ...
[youtube id=”rnNbyirvJ8k” width=”600″ height=”350″] A forty-five year war, millions of displaced and millions of lives damaged by killings, kidnappings, landmines and fear. This is Colombia and this is the place ...
The killing of hundreds of people around the Nigerian city of Jos has terrorised the local population. Caritas is running peacebuilding programmes and providing aid to those caught in the ...
Over six hundred people have now been confirmed dead as a result of the earthquake and over 10,000 are injured. However, some of the areas affected are isolated and haven’t ...
By Mathilde Magnier, Communications Officer in Haiti Protecting children remains a priority after the 12 January earthquake in Haiti. Four out of ten people are under 14 years old. The ...