After the deluge: responding to the floods in northeastern India
Thanks to your support, Development and Peace is helping Caritas India bring relief and rehabilitation to thousands of people affected by devastating flooding in the state of Assam.
Thanks to your support, Development and Peace is helping Caritas India bring relief and rehabilitation to thousands of people affected by devastating flooding in the state of Assam.
As part of the Government of Canada’s matching fund, Development and Peace is appealing for donations in response to the food crisis in sub-Saharan Africa, which is reaching catastrophic levels.
Development and Peace — Caritas Canada has been raising emergency funds for Ukraine since the beginning of the war, which has displaced over 12 million
Development and Peace condemns a Russian tank attack in Mariupol, Ukraine, that claimed the lives of two Caritas staff members and five others.
Development and Peace calls on the faithful to stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian people.
Generous support from Canadians helped Development and Peace ― Caritas Canada’s partners build houses that survived an earthquake in Haiti.
Haiti’s Civil Protection Directorate reports that the quake has claimed over 2,200 lives, injured more than 12,250 people and destroyed or damaged nearly 130,000 houses. UNICEF also notes that scores of water supply and healthcare facilities and hundreds of schools have been damaged.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that about 800,000 people need vital relief assistance and that there is a heightened the risk of another wave of COVID-19 infections. This has prompted the UN to issue an emergency appeal for US $187.3 million.
At 8:29 a.m. on Saturday, August 14, 2021, a powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Haiti’s Tiburon Peninsula, about 150 kilometres west of the capital, Port-au-Prince. Much of the damage occurred in the towns of Jérémie and Les Cayes. The force of the earthquake was felt across most of the country, particularly in the West Department.
By Judith Faucher, International Projects Funding Officer On August 4, 2020, a dockside fire in Beirut, Lebanon, triggered a series of explosions in a chemical
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