Monthly Archives: September 2010
Keeping Haiti’s camps clean
By Nana Anto-Awuakye, Cafod (Caritas England and Wales). It rained overnight. A driving downpour no umbrella could protect you from. Rain like this just adds to the tough conditions faced by those Haitians still living in tents. Working with communities to … Continue reading
Filed under Emergencies, Haiti quake
Trauma will remain long after floods have gone
By Kamran Chaudhry, Caritas Pakistan Something of increasing concern to Caritas is the growing trauma among Pakistan’s flood victims and its need to be addressed. “Most of the internally displaced people are poor peasants. Many are severally depressed after seeing … Continue reading
Filed under Caritas news
More aid, better spent
In this week’s Tablet, a Catholic weekly published in the UK, Abbé Ambroise Tine, the Secretary General of Caritas Senegal, urges for more aid, better spent to rescue millions of people trapped in poverty. Subscribers can read the article here
Filed under Caritas news
Bishop of Tambura-Yambio on South Sudan conflict
Please find a link to hear Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala of Tambura-Yambio Diocese speaking to the BBC World Service radio about the position of the regional ecumenical Bishops’ meeting on the conflict in his area caused by Ugandan Lords Resistance … Continue reading
Filed under Caritas news
Videos from Pakistan
Caritas Pakistan flood response Caritas visit to North Pakistan Caritas visit to South Pakistan The video was filmed by Laura Sheahen, a CRS communications officer (Catholic Relief Services is a Caritas member) and edited by Caritas staff.
Filed under Caritas news, Emergencies, Pakistan floods 2010
Shelter for Pakistan’s flood survivors
by Laura Sheahen, CRS (Catholic Relief Services is a Caritas member) As CRS employees in northern Pakistan stood on the office porch watching the floodwater rise, they also videotaped a nearby building. Through the pouring rain, I see a ragged … Continue reading
Filed under Emergencies, Pakistan floods 2010
40 days after the Pakistan floods
By Patrick Nicholson Tented camps dot the countryside around Nowshera. Their inhabitants are some of the 21 million people affected by the floods this August in Pakistan that have ravaged a vast swathe of the country. Some people have stayed … Continue reading
Filed under Emergencies, Pakistan floods 2010
Eid with a difference in Pakistan
By Kamran Chaudhry, Caritas Communications Officer Villagers of Bhikiwind on the eastern Pakistan India border worried more about raging waters than wearing new clothes on Eid al-Fitar this year. With maize and other crops destroyed in the area, they now … Continue reading
Filed under Emergencies, Pakistan floods 2010
Together in Pakistan to support flood survivors
By Kamran Chaudhry Khalid Khan gets up every morning to search his waterlogged mud house. “Except a few utensils, everything is buried in heaps of mud”, said Khan, who now lives in a tent village located a few meters away … Continue reading
Filed under Emergencies, Pakistan floods 2010
