As a valued supporter of Caritas Australia, we want to share with you our exciting plans for the new financial year. These upcoming initiatives will shape our journey to creating positive change across the globe. In this blog post, we will provide an overview of our ongoing work, and highlight new projects on the horizon. Together with your support, we can make a lasting impact in the lives of the most vulnerable. Join us as we look toward the future with hope and determination.

Four program participants from the San Isidro Care Center - a rural training centre that caters to hearing-impaired students in the Solomon Islands, have been selected to attend World Youth Day (WYD) 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal.  

Despite making up half the world’s population, women and girls face higher rates of marginalisation, loss of dignity and inequality in countless areas. They face higher poverty rates, lower education levels, lower access to health, lower employment opportunities, lower pay, poorer working conditions, high rates of gender-based violence, and a higher burden of family and care responsibilities.

On Tuesday 20 June, we celebrated World Refugee Day. This day is designed to honour refugees from around the world. Learn more about how Caritas Australia's work with refugees and Internally Displaced Persons around the world. 

As we end another financial year, your thoughts may turn towards how you are making your money work for you and the world you want to see.

To commemorate National Sorry Day 2023, Caritas Australia and our partner Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation (KBHAC) invited all Australians to participate in a webinar to reflect on Australia's true history and commit to truth-telling about Stolen Generations survivors and their descendants.

With the support of our local partner HURREDO, and through the donations of generous people like you, Salin and her community worked together to construct a water station behind the school, along with a community pond.

A powerful category five cyclone has hit the coastlines of Bangladesh and Myanmar, bringing heavy rain and strong winds.

Caritas Australia CEO Kirsty Robertson has been elected as the new Vice President of Caritas Internationalis.

Conflict has broken out in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, and thousands of civilians have been caught up in the violence. Families are running out of food, water and medicine as the conflict continues, and many have risked fleeing their homes and becoming refugees to escape the fighting.

Clean water is a basic human need. Without access to it there is little hope for communities to recover from the devastating cycle of poverty. In the Solomon Islands, 33% of the population does not have access to healthy or safe drinking water. To mitigate this issue, as part of the 3H program, Caritas Australia Solomon Islands (CASI) was able to successfully deliver three handpumps in Surabuta. 

Kirsty Robertson, CEO of Caritas Australia and Richard Landels, Advancement Director, cycled from Cairns and Townsville as part of Caritas K's for Compassion. 

Your generosity is supporting our local partners in Vietnam to implement programs designed to drive disability inclusion, by building awareness among communities and providing essential life skills training to people living with disability.

In March, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) delivered its Sixth Assessment Report where leading scientists have issued an ‘urgent warning’ on the climate crisis. Thanks to the generosity of supporters like you, Caritas Australia is taking action against climate change by implementing new programs across the Pacific region and Africa to further support communities at risk. 

Last month, Caritas Australia’s Africa Programs Coordinator, Sister Ivy Khoury, visited Zimbabwe and Mozambique to reconnect with our program partners in the region – the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Caritas Australia stands in solidarity with the people of Malawi, Mozambique and Madagascar after Cyclone Freddy,  one of the deadliest and long-lived tropical cyclones to have ever been recorded in Southern Africa.

Since the launch of Project Compassion in February, thousands of supporters have come together to raise funds for people living in some of the most vulnerable communities worldwide.

Caritas Oceania President, Cardinal Mafi, shares the story of his island home Tonga, and how it is has been impacted by climate change. 

The generosity of Caritas Australia supporters has already helped raise $1 million through the Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal. But there are still many families who need immediate humanitarian support. Here is how you can help. 

After twelve months of conflict in Ukraine, the toll on civilians has been catastrophic. Thousands have been killed, many more injured, millions forced to flee, and homes and vital infrastructure have been destroyed.  

Project Compassion launched on Shrove Tuesday, marking the beginning of the season of kindness and compassion towards communities who need it most. Many parishes and schools across the country hosted a Project Compassion launch, where they heard from representatives from Caritas Australia about this year’s stories, as well as the difference they are making in the lives of those who need it most.