Haiti needs our support

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.

The Beirut blasts: a one-year update

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

Hondurans still hurting from the hurricanes

Hurricane-affected communities have been pressing for the reconstruction of river embankments in the Sula Valley. Arriving close together in November 2020, Hurricanes Eta and Iota

An update on the COVID crisis in the Indian subcontinent

On May 6, 2021, Development and Peace — Caritas Canada launched an urgent appeal to help our partners respond to the COVID-19 emergency in India

COVID-19 in India: an urgent appeal at an apocalyptic time

The wailing sirens of ambulances rushing to overfull hospitals; the frustrated cries of doctors left with no drugs to administer; the gasping of oxygen-starved lungs;

Thousands left homeless as fire engulfs Rohingya refugee camp

At about 3:30 p.m. local time on Monday, March 22, 2021, a fire broke out it the Balukhali section of the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp

International Development Week: Canadians’ solidarity with the people of Syria

Observed from February 7 to 13 this year, International Development Week offers people “an opportunity to pause and to acknowledge Canadian contributions to poverty reduction

Tigray: tending to a troubled region

Development and Peace — Caritas Canada is supporting an emergency project to bring much-needed aid to nearly 187,000 people affected by conflict in Ethiopia. The

A helping hand to Honduras: an update

Within the first two weeks of November, Honduras was struck by Hurricanes Eta and Iota. United Nations data (available in Spanish only) indicate that 3.6

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