“CRS has been working on a response to this climate-induced drought over the past two years. But the rest of the world is only waking up to the fact that we have the worst climate-induced drought in the world right now — the worst in living memory in Afghanistan,” said Kevin Hartigan, the Middle East regional director of Catholic Relief Services.
CRS works to help Afghan farmers facing climate-induced drought, hunger
CRS program works with Ugandan men as they take on new family roles
Men among the Karamojong community are defying long-held norms to take up roles that for generations had been assigned to women and girls.
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CRS fires Sudan country rep after allegations of verbal abuse, racism
A CRS country rep in Sudan has been terminated after allegations of verbal abuse, reports The New Humanitarian.
CRS health official keeps close eye on coronavirus
Suzanne Van Hulle, the global public health expert for Catholic Relief Services, is paying particularly close attention to the spread of the virus, also called COVID-19, to ensure CRS staff members in Asia are safe.
Hurricane response in Haiti slowed by blocked roads, floods, power outages
Haitian first responders and nongovernmental aid workers were assessing the damage from Hurricane Matthew even as they scrambled to deliver food, water and shelter materials to communities isolated by washed-out bridges and blocked roads.
CRS, other NGOs pledge total of $1.2 billion to help world’s refugees
Eighty-six percent of the world’s refugees are living in developing countries and it is particularly hard for those countries to meet refugees’ needs and provide them an education and a livelihood, according to a senior policy and legislative specialist at Catholic Relief Services.
CRS uses lessons learned from Ebola to fight Zika in Cape Verde
The dust had hardly settled on Catholic Relief Services’ work fighting the world’s worst Ebola outbreak before the team was putting together a response to the Zika virus in the West African island nation of Cape Verde.