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Pope Francis says that the world can no longer turn away from the millions of people who are suffering from hunger. In a video message to launch Caritas Internationalis’ global campaign, One Human Family, Food for All, Pope Francis said, “We are in front of a global scandal of around one billion people who still…
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Join us in our wave of prayer to end hunger at midday 10th December to kick off our campaign One human family, food for all. The wave starts in Samoa and will cross every continent in the world. One Human Family, Food for All offers a unique opportunity for our voices to join as one…
Copyright: Caritas/Simone Stefanelli “We were in great difficulty in the hungry season, “ says Maimouna Boureima. “That’s the period between our two harvests and this year our fields gave us so little we seriously considered migrating to Niger’s capital, Niamey, to look for work or to even beg on the streets.” Maimouna, 45, is a…
At just 18 years old, Shiva Ram Kisan has experienced more of the ups and downs of life than some people will in a lifetime. He lost his mother when he was only 5 years old and his father when he was 14. Lonelieness, poverty and an empty stomach were no strangers to him. But…
Caritas doesn’t just offer people a helping hand in times of need, but it also offers a listening ear and words of good advice. A bit of advice can make all the difference, especially if it makes people see things a different way and, in the case of some small farmers in El Salvador, lead…
The Caritas confederation will launch a global “wave of prayer” to promote an end to world hunger on 10th December. It marks the beginning of the Caritas anti-hunger campaign, One Human Family, Food For All. The wave starts on the island of Samoa and will sweep across the globe involving…
When a food crisis hit the Horn of Africa in 2011, the Caritas confederation responded with an out-pouring of solidarity. This support helped the Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat (Caritas Ethiopia) to accompany people in their recovery from the drought. Eighteen-year-old Adanech is one such person. Her father died when she was a little girl and her…
The Comoros are a tiny cluster of islands sitting between the coast of Mozambique and the island of Madagascar. Caritas has been working on the islands since 1979. Justin Haruna, secretary general of Caritas Comoros says that with the help of Secours Catholique and the Order of Malta, Caritas has developed a community approach to…
There is a saying in Tonga that “the measure of a man’s wealth is not in monetary value but by his root crops and pigs.” Funaki Vehekite, 53, grows food crops such as kape, taro, yam, cassava and squash at his farm in Tongatapu, Tonga’s largest island. It allows him to support his family and…
Bonu is the poorest woman in a desperately poor Afghan village. She feeds her 3 children from her husband’s earnings as a shepherd. All he receives is a portion of his employer’s wheat harvest and this must last the family all year. Every meal is the same: plain wheat naan (a flatbread) and weak green…