A young Mom with her baby girl at a nutrition education event in Dindefelo village, Eastern Senegal. Photo by Helen Blakesley/CRS By Helen Blakesley, Only yesterday I was under the British rain, bidding farewell to my nearest and dearest. Today I’m back to my francophone, sun-filled Dakar days, catching up on the latest political intrigue [...]
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In the last 2 years, thanks to your support, Catholic Relief Services has: Built 10,600 transitional shelters Provided 10 million meals to more than 1 million people Organized medical teams that performed more than 1,000 emergency surgeries and conducted 71,000 outpatient consultations Helped workers crush enough rubble to fill almost 1,800 dump trucks Hired more [...]
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We don’t hear much about slavery on the news. We don’t see slaves being bought and sold on the street. Yet, slavery still exists in 161 countries around the world including the United States. January 11 is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. See how much you know about slavery and human trafficking by taking our [...]
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It’s 2012. How is slavery still possible? It’s not on the news and we don’t see it in our neighborhoods. Somehow, this $32 billion industry exists in 161 countries around the world, including the United States. Innocents are routinely trafficked into the United States, and some live in a community near you. Twelve million people [...]
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Ana Lucia Tesoureira, a former slave in Brazil, is now a successful homeowner at the age of 23. Photo Robyn Fieser/CRS Many among the 42 families in the Nova Conquista, or New Conquest, settlement share horror stories of toiling away on fields in Brazil’s Amazon for little or no pay. Enslavement often began with a [...]
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After 40 years of service to the world’s poor, CRS President Ken Hackett is retiring at the end of this year. Ken thanks supporters in this World Report podcast.
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Severe weather badly affected harvests in North Korea in the mid 90s. CRS was part of a U.S. faith-based consortium that supplied food aid to affected communities. Photo by Tom Price/CRS The news that Kim Jong Il, the “Dear Leader” of North Korea died, came as a surprise to the world. For me it brought [...]
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# Thirty years into the pandemic, UNAIDS estimates that 33.3 million people globally are living with HIV. This number includes an estimated 2.5 million children under the age of 15 years. # The number of people receiving antiretroviral therapy in low- and middle-income countries has increased thirteenfold since the 2004, to more than 5 million. [...]
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Please join us for a 1-hour live chat with CRS President Ken Hackett on Wednesday, November 30 at noon eastern. Although the chat won’t begin until noon eastern, please submit any questions you have now in the box below. Live Chat With CRS President Ken Hackett
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Father Eustache Nobime, Caritas Coordinator for the Diocese of Abomey in Benin, stands outside Ouidah’s Basilica where Pope Benedict XVI signed His latest Apostolic Exhortation. Photo by Helen Blakesley/CRS By Helen Blakesley, Here in Benin, the roads have re-opened, the banners are down, you could say “the Pope has left the building”. But for one [...]
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