Aid from Catholic Relief Services Reaching Hatians

Lifesaving supplies from Catholic Relief Services (CRS) are reaching desperate survivors in quake-shattered Port-au-Prince, Haiti. CRS is distributing food and water from its warehouses in the Haitian capital and the city of Les Cayes. Additional aid is on its way… Read More

Catholic Relief Services Rushing Aid to Haiti’s Quake Survivors

Catholic Relief Services is readying food and other aid to help families affected by a powerful earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12. CRS has committed an initial $5 million (US) to help survivors of the devastating quake.
“This is… Read More

Livestock Gift Lifts Family Out of Poverty

By Pride Magwali
Sipho Ncube is a widow who lives with her three children and elderly mother in Dabula West, a village in southwestern Zimbabwe. Back in 2004, Sipho was selected by Catholic Relief Services and our local partner, the… Read More

Indonesia: Helping Families Rebuild Quake-Shattered Homes

Irwan Etendi’s family had never experienced anything like the earthquake that hit West Sumatra, Indonesia, on September 30.
“We were all inside when we felt the shaking,” he says. “We all ran out—even my father-in-law who hadn’t finished his [daily]… Read More

Seeking Survivors After Asian-Pacific Catastrophes

In little more than one week, a series of horrific natural disasters has carved a swath of destruction from the tiny island of Samoa west to a massive section of southern India. The storms, earthquakes and monsoon rains have killed… Read More

Living With HIV: ‘The Truth Sets Me Free’

By Debbie DeVoe
The year 2006 wasn’t such a good one for Mary Waithira Kariuki. First, the 47-year-old Kenyan came down with pneumonia in July. During her two-week hospital stay, the doctors also tested her for tuberculosis and for HIV.… Read More

Catholic Relief Services Food Aid on Hijacked Ship

Life-saving food aid destined for Catholic Relief Services (CRS) programs in Rwanda is among the cargo of the Maersk Alabama, the ship hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia.
Forty-nine containers aboard the ship hold 860 metric tons of… Read More

They Call Themselves ‘Catholics’

CRS donated several drilling rigs to the Ethiopian Catholic Church to tap deep groundwater. Our partner, the Hararghe Catholic Secretariat, used one of the rigs to drill a borehole in Dire Dawa, an arid eastern district in Ethiopia. The borehole… Read More

Where There Is No Tap to Turn On

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) will mark World Water Day on March 22 by recognizing the importance of making clean water available to the nearly 1 billion people around the world who don’t have access to enough safe freshwater to meet… Read More

Precious Water

I visited Zimbabwe a week before the swearing-in of the opposition leader as prime minister by his erstwhile enemy President Mugabe, which initiated the Unity Government. While there, I traveled to see Catholic Relief Services’ programs and express the solidarity… Read More

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