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December 7, 2014
Typhoon Hagupit Rains Menace Islands in the Philippines
Millions of Filipinos awoke Sunday to the news that the death toll and damage caused by Typhoon Hagupit, known locally as Ruby, was not as catastrophic as first expected. But the slow-moving system, which made landfall late Saturday on the island of Samar, is expected to bring more rain and...More
December 4, 2014
Syrian and Iraqi Refugees
CRS and our Caritas partners are providing critical services—including trauma counseling and education for children—in Jordan and Lebanon, where millions of Syrians and Iraqis have fled their homes because of violence and civil war. Many parents fear that their children may be part of a "lost...More
November 20, 2014
Coming Soon in the Here and Now
Have you ever wanted something so much you felt like you couldn't wait any longer? Maybe as a child you begged and begged for a toy, but you had to wait for it until Christmas. Maybe you had to wait years—or are still waiting—for a baby to grace your family. Maybe it's the dream vacation that's...More
October 28, 2014
Sustainable Rwanda: Coffee Growers Diversify
The mud-packed walls of the Mazimpaka's family room show the strong influence of young people: Hanging among the rosaries and pictures of St. Mary are posters of Miss Rwanda, the Rwandan singer Christopher, and the Rwandan boy band Dreamboyz. The room's only window shines a square of light on...More
October 28, 2014
Rwanda Animal Fair: Goats and Hopes
When Therese Umuhire looks at her new goat, she envisions, well, something else.
"I dream of when I will get a cow from that goat," she says, nodding at her goat as it grazes on a hillside in Nyamirambo village in southern Rwanda....More
October 23, 2014
Typhoon Haiyan, One Year Later
Even the richest country in the world has trouble recovering from a major natural disaster, as Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy demonstrated. So it's no surprise that the same story is playing out in the Philippines after Super Typhoon Haiyan, which hit on November 8, 2013. It was the strongest...More
August 18, 2014
Flora Tristan Relationship
Discontinued in 2009
Flora Tristan is a Peruvian feminist institution created in 1979 as a private non-profit organization. Its mission is to "address the structural causes that restrict women's citizenship and/or affect its practice. Accordingly it proposes to influence the expansion...More
July 22, 2014
Disasters Threaten South Sudan, Central African Republic
Dear Friend,
Responding to emergencies is one of the most important jobs we have at Catholic Relief Services. Many are high-profile events covered extensively in the media, like the tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the earthquake in Haiti or Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. But many are...More
July 14, 2014
Catholic Relief Services: Faith. Action. Results.
Editor's Note: This article is a contribution to a week-long blog carnival on USAID's John Ogonowski and Doug Bereuter Farmer-to-Farmer (F2F) Program. From July 14-18, F2F program partners and American volunteers are...More
