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Caritas Australia welcomes a $10m government aid package for Gaza
Caritas Australia has welcomed a $10m aid package to support the World Food Programme in Gaza and echoed its calls for a ceasefire.
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A Caritas worker walks through the destruction in Gaza. Photo credit: Caritas Jerusalem.
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Children in a IDP Camp in northern Ethiopia. Photo: Caritas Australia.
Caritas Australia welcomes the Australian Government’s commitment of $1.4 billion towards aid and development over the next four years. The Labor Government has focussed on supporting Australia’s region, with an increase of $900 million to the Pacific and Timor-Leste and $470 million to Southeast Asia.  Â
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Kioa Declaration Signing Ceremony In Kioa, Fiji 19 October 2022. Photo: Damian Spruce, Caritas Australia
Pacific Island countries have made history with the first ever climate declaration in the region to be led by communities rather than politicians. Â
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A child's drawing with the word 'kindness'. Photo: Caritas Ukraine.
Ukraine has been hit by a devastating new wave of missile attacks and other airstrikes across the country, leaving scores of civilians killed and injured. Â
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The Pacific region is facing a perfect storm of climate change induced disasters and skyrocketing debt burdens, according to a new report. This, combined with the shocks of COVID-19 and the international cost of living crisis, could lead to unprecedented economic instability in Australia’s region without immediate intervention.
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Destruction after Typhoon Rai in the Philippines. Photo: Caritas Philippines.
Thousands of people are displaced and eight dead after Typhoon Noru slammed into the north of the Philippines late on Sunday, reaching wind speeds of 170 km/h.
As part of their visit to Australia to compete in the 2022 UCI Road World Championships, the first ever Vatican World Cycling Team joined Caritas Australia to learn about truth-telling and reconciliation.Â
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St. Augustine Remote Training Centre Staff in the Solomon Islands receiving COVID-19 school care kits. Photo credit Caritas Australia Solomon Islands
Students in the Solomon Islands have returned to school after months of disruptions caused by COVID-19 outbreaks and lockdowns.
This week Caritas Australia CEO, Kirsty Robertson, joins 40 Christian women leaders as part of the Micah Women Leaders Delegation, to urge Australia's political leaders to prevent impending humanitarian crisis. Â
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Assessment visits by Caritas Pakistan team during the flooding. Photo: Caritas Pakistan
Caritas Australia’s partners are responding to the devastating floods in Pakistan that have left a trail of destruction across the country, claiming the lives of more than 1,100 people.
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Sothy on a trip to Australia in 2019. Photo: Caritas Australia
10 AUG 22
After a remarkable career of 30 years, Caritas Australia is saying farewell to Sothy Lay, Caritas Australia’s Country Representative in Cambodia.Â
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Caritas Australia Chair Robert Fitzgerald and CEO Kirsty Roberston with Her Excellency Chiara Porro attend the Women for the World event in Sydney. Photo Caritas Australia
To commence its annual Women for the World campaign, Caritas Australia yesterday held an event to celebrate and honour women as leaders across the world. Addressing the event as a special guest was Her Excellency Chiara Porro, the Australian Ambassador to the Holy See, who spoke on women’s leadership, the Church and the role of women in development.
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Caritas Australia CEO Kirsty Robertson with the Help Fight Famine delegation in Canberra calling on the government for urgent humanitarian action. Photo Credit Caritas Australia
Caritas Australia has joined many of Australia’s leading aid and development organisations to urge the Australian Government to help prevent a humanitarian crisis.
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Kirsty Robertson, Caritas Australia CEO visiting Tsemay community in drought affected Jinka region, southwestern Ethiopia. Photo Zacharias Abubeker, Caritas Australia.
Over 18 million people are facing hunger in the Horn of Africa after the worst drought in decades has devastated crops and livestock across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. Â
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Caritas Cambodia and Caritas Australia: Vichheka Nay, Rattana Kim, Ranmal Samarawickrama, Chanthea Nou, Phaldyn Prum, and Joseph Komandachaly. Photo Caritas Cambodia
Caritas Australia has been awarded the Royal Order of Sahametrei from the Cambodian Government, presented by their partner organisation Caritas Cambodia.Â
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Caritas Australia CEO, Ms. Kirsty Robertson, and Advancement Director, Mr. Richard Landels, met with His Eminence Cardinal Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel in Addis Ababa to discuss the renewed partnership between Caritas Ethiopia and Caritas Australia, and their shared interests in protection and vocational education.
A delegation from Caritas Australia has travelled to Ethiopia to meet with its partner Caritas Ethiopia to discuss the response to the ongoing food crisis gripping the Horn of Africa region.
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: After three years of poor rainfall, some of the worst locust plagues in decades, ongoing conflict and now the impacts of the war in Ukraine, the Horn of Africa is currently facing what is potentially the worst food crisis we have seen in our lifetime.
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A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has devastated Afghanistan and Pakistan, causing over 1,000 deaths and a further 1,600 injuries.  Â
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On June 10, survivors from the Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation took part in a ceremony hosted by Transport NSW to formally recognise the role that the Bourke Railway station played during the Stolen Generation.
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This Reconciliation Week, Caritas Australia calls on the government to continue to work towards closing the gap for First Australians.
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Caritas Australia congratulates Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Australian Labor Party on winning the federal election and welcomes Labor’s stated commitment to foreign aid and the Uluru Statement of the Heart. Â
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After three years of poor rainfall, some of the worst locust plagues seen in decades, and ongoing conflict, displacement and the impacts of COVID-19, millions of people are facing hunger and even starvation across the Horn of Africa. Â
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