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By Sara A. Fajardo

It's 8 a.m., and the sun over Madagascar is already etching shadowy grooves across the landscape in the small village of Tsinjorano. Farmer Patricia Suzy Razafindrafara, 42, shades her eyes with her palm and surveys her rice fields. Thick stalks sway in the gentle breeze as crickets sing a morning lullaby. She carefully kicks off her black plastic shoes, hefts her metal weeder over her shoulder and scrambles into the shallow paddies below.

Sandra Basgall turned seventy a few weeks ago. But there’s no easy chair in sight for this Colorado-born CRS staffer. Sandra’s an advisor on monitoring and evaluation for the Central Africa Region, lives in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and is still very much in on the action. She’s lived in 15 different US states and 6 different countries, but home is wherever she lays her hat. “I don’t look back and think ‘oh I wish I was there again’. I just look forward and think ‘where am I going to go next and what am I going to do next?’”

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DES OBJECTIFS DE LA MISSION

  1. Evaluer les besoins humanitaires dans les secteurs de la Sécurité Alimentaire, WASH, NFi/Abri, Santé/Nutrition et Protection.
  2. Identifier les ménages déplacés présents dans le site, leurs nombre et ressortir un tableau démographique désagrégé de cette population.

Résultats attendus de la mission

Posted on May 7, 2012 by John Rivera

BALTIMORE, MD, May 7, 2012 — Catholic Relief Services (CRS) will mark the achievements of a 4.5-year, $23.8 million project to fight diseases that could have devastated the critical cassava crop in east and central Africa with an event on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 in Washington, DC.

Cécile is talking to Séraphine about her medicine. Séraphine is HIV positive. She lost her husband to the virus and is now bringing up their six kids in Bungwe, a village high in the hills of northern Rwanda.

A senior nurse at Bungwe Health Center, Cécile used to have to wait for a doctor to come to start people on antiretroviral therapy and conduct more complex medical evaluations—and those visits are only once a week. But now she can handle it by herself. She’s had the training courtesy of the Ministry of Health.

By Autumn Brown

Seeing Salvacion Pacatang walk around the office as the area coordinator working with Catholic Relief Services’ partner, the Diocese Social Action Center, you would never guess that her life had been turned upside down only a few months before. She is a survivor of Typhoon Sendong, the cyclone that ravaged her community in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines on the night of December 16, 2011—killing many of her friends and neighbors and sweeping her home out to sea.

Recent clashes between the newly independent South Sudan and its northern neighbor, Sudan, have raised fears that the two countries are sliding back toward war. CRS’ Sudan advisor, Dan Griffin, is currently in Juba, South Sudan’s capital, and spoke with us about the problems between the two countries and what a full-scale war could mean for the Sudanese people.

What is currently happening along the border between Sudan and South Sudan?

Unrest and uncertainty are continuing in the West African state of Mali, as rebel separatist forces have taken control of the northern desert region. Interim civilian power has been restored in the capital, Bamako, after last month’s military coup, but Mali’s political future is still unclear. Violence in the north continues and many thousands of people are still fleeing their homes – either to move further south or to cross the borders into neighboring countries. CRS remains committed to serve the people of Mali and to continue its relief and development work there.

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Susan Walters

CRS is helping equip people in West Africa to weather a looming food crisis that could leave up to 13 million people hungry this year.

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Kim Pozniak

Catholic Relief Services in Mali today announced the temporary closure of one of its field offices in the town of Mopti as a result of an ongoing rebellion that intensified amid a military coup last month.

With increased rebel movements reported in the Mopti region and to ensure the safety of our staff, CRS made the decision to close its office there for a period of one week, pending improved security in the area.

“It takes a trained eye to see when someone is poorer than poor in Niger. People are living in a harsh environment, it’s a semi-desert, many households can seem badly off at the best of times. But this year, I noticed a change,” said Jean-Marie Adrian, Catholic Relief Services regional director for West Africa.

By Laura Sheahen,

“When the bombing was bad, we didn’t go to school. We were in the bunker,” says 10-year-old Anthony.* “I put my fingers in my ears to shut out the shelling.”

Huddled in a hole dug quickly in the ground, with sandbags to protect them from blasts and tree branches screening their “bunker” from view, Anthony and his mother waited hours with their neighbors until the bombing stopped. Across northern Sri Lanka, thousands of children were doing the same thing, over and over, day after day.

The first act of the day for many of us is to drink some fresh, clean water, whether from the glass on your bedside table or from the bathroom tap. It doesn’t matter how much you drink, you can quench your thirst and there is plenty more in the tap. Is there a natural resource we take more for granted than water?

Seven leading aid agencies call on donors to act now to prevent humanitarian disaster

Niamey (Niger), March 21, 2012 – A new study has found that between 70 and 90 per cent of people from communities in western and eastern Niger fear their food stocks will run out before the next harvest, creating an imminent ‘hunger gap’. All families surveyed said they had already reduced the amount of food consumed each day because they did not have enough to eat.

Niamey (Niger), 21 mars 2012 - Selon une récente étude de terrain conduite au sein de communautés dans l’ouest et l’est du Niger, entre 70 et 90% de personnes estiment que leurs réserves de nourriture seront épuisées avant la prochaine récolte, ce qui leur fait courir le risque d’une grave crise alimentaire. 100% des familles disent avoir déjà réduit la quantité de nourriture consommée par jour car elles n’ont pas suffisamment à manger.

With hundreds killed this week in fresh ethnic violence in South Sudan what is the situation like in the world’s newest independent nation? The U.N. says some 350,000 people were displaced because of intercommunal violence in South Sudan last year, an impoverished country which is awash with small arms following decades of conflict .

Key Sigues

Nacional

Según reportes de diversos medios nacionales a partir de informes del Viceministerio de Defensa Civil (VIDECI), los departamentos afectados del territorio nacional que son: Chuquisaca, Potosí, Pando, La Paz, Tarija y Santa Cruz, hay 13.812 familias afectadas y 953 viviendas dañadas en 117 municipios, cifras confirmadas por el Viceministro de Defensa Civil, Oscar Cabrera.

Many in the United States are learning about Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army through an internet video that has attracted tens of millions of views. Catholic Relief Services has been working for years to help the victims of Kony and the LRA.

What is happening in the Sahel?

A drought is threatening millions of people in the Sahel, the swath across Africa bordering the Sahara desert. Millions of people are at risk of severe food shortages unless there is a major humanitarian response.

How many people, and in what countries, are affected by this food crisis?

Up to 12 million people, including nearly three million children, are at risk of hunger in parts of Chad, Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Gambia, Cameroon and northern Nigeria.

Thanks to your support, Catholic Relief Services and our partners are mobilizing emergency water, hygiene and sanitation facilities to meet the urgent needs of thousands of Malian refugees in neighboring Niger.