The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a press release that endorses the fundraising efforts of four Canadian Catholic organizations, including Development and Peace ― Caritas Canada.
Development and Peace ― Caritas Canada’s partner in Niger offers basic necessities and skills training to help refugees, displaced people and persons with a handicap support their families.
Caritas Internationalis agencies issue a joint statement calling the Government of Bangladesh and the international community to continue supporting Rohingya refugees while working toward their safe and voluntary repatriation.
In the refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Canadian government funding and our donors’ support are enabling Rohingya women and men to build and maintain stronger, better shelters.
Backed by Canadian solidarity, Caritas Bangladesh is reinforcing the agency of and encouraging autonomy among Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
Your solidarity allows Development and Peace ― Caritas Canada’s partners to help traumatized Rohingya children smile and thrive, despite the impossibly constrained conditions of the world’s largest refugee camps.
Thanks to over $1.8 million in funding from the Government of Canada, we are providing urgently needed health and nutrition services to more than 54,000 additional people, including over 28,000 children.
The generosity of Canadians like you is helping Development and Peace ― Caritas Canada’s partners transform the lives of impoverished Bangladeshi people whose vulnerabilities are exacerbated by the arrival of Rohingya refugees in their communities.
As winter approaches, Development and Peace — Caritas Canada joins other Catholic organizations in supporting this call by the Ukrainian Catholic Bishops of Canada to provide further humanitarian aid to the victims of the war.
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