News tagged with "caritas"

Sex trafficking in Nepal drags in more victims

Human trafficking for sexual exploitation and slave labor has reached unprecedented levels in Nepal which is affecting not only women and children, but also men Caritas has warned.
Increasing numbers of people are being sold or duped into a life of misery some 100 Catholic youths were told at a special awareness gathering at Kathmandu’s Assumption [...]

Activists condemn ill-treatment of maid

Catholics have joined a demonstration for migrant workers’ rights after a Sri Lankan domestic worker accused her Saudi employers of driving nails into her body.
Local doctors recently removed 13 nails and five needles from Lahanda Purage Ariyawathie, a mother of three, who worked for a family in Riyadh from April this year.
X-rays showed that there [...]

Joseph Vaz movie premieres in Colombo

A film depicting the life of a priest credited with strengthening the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka, has had its official premier, amid year-long celebrations marking the 300th anniversary of his death.
“If it wasn’t for Blessed Joseph Vaz there would not have been a Catholic Church here,” said Father Alex Dassanayake, vice-postulator of the National [...]

Caritas to the rescue in wild elephant attack

Fifty elephants have attacked two remote hill region villages in Bangladesh, demolishing homes and destroying crops and fruit trees.
Caritas Mymensingh Regional Director Theophil Nokrek told ucanews.com that 32 families in Panihati and five families in Dhopajhuri village lost all or most of their possessions.
However, no one was injured or killed during the June 7 raid [...]

Caritas helps Cambodia tackle climate change

Caritas Cambodia is working with local people to raise awareness of climate change as well as hold training on disaster prevention, says its disaster management officer.
“Climate change is a collective challenge so we all have to join our hands together to deal with it,” said Sok Sakhan.
“We are currently working with local people regardless of [...]

Caritas creates employment for flood-stricken villagers

For the past year, hundreds of villagers in Bangladesh’s flood-prone southern coastal area have been taking steps to improve their situation while getting paid at the same time, thanks to Caritas.
Caritas Khulna has employed 280 Catholic villagers, mostly women, in 11 projects in Satkhira district for a 295-day period. The district is one of the [...]

Caritas joins flood response in Sri Lanka

Caritas has joined with government and civil organizations in providing aid to victims of floods that have lashed the country since May 14.
According to the government-run Disaster Management Center, more than 450,000 have been displaced in 11 districts, 17 persons have died and three are missing.
Many roads, including highways in Colombo, have been submerged resulting [...]

Caritas brings water to parched village

Caritas has brought drinking and irrigation water to villagers in the drought-scorched northwest of Bangladesh.
Seasonal drought, apaprently made worse by climate change, had left the inhabitants of several villages in Chapai Nawabgonj district with severe water shortages.
Crop cultivation had slumped and disease rife from drinking dirty water.
“We’ve set up 15 large water tanks with filters [...]

Caritas rebuilds houses for quake survivors

Caritas in Padang diocese of Indonesia has officially launched its reconstruction and rehabilitation program for survivors of a deadly earthquake that struck West Sumatra’s coastal area last September.
During the April 21 event, held in Kampung Batu village in Padang, Caritas project manager Gregorius Wangge said his organization has already started rebuilding 182 houses for Muslim [...]

Caritas assessing loss caused by storm

Caritas is assessing the situation to provide relief and rehabilitation to people affected by a recent tropical storm in eastern India.
“We have sent teams to the affected dioceses to do the need assessment,” Nelson, who heads the partner support department of the Catholic organization for social development, told UCA News on April 16.
A tornado with [...]

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