Caritas India believes in collective action with government and non-Government stakeholders working towards ensuring the rights of children. Amidst this ‘new normal’ while we are still coping with the Pandemic, we hope to build a collective synergy and take concerted efforts to achieve new hope, peace, and rightful childhood for all children. It’s everybody’s responsibility to protect children from abuse, harm, neglect and exploitation. Governments,

For the past few months, in Changlang District of Arunachal Pradesh, farmers have been struggling to make a living in the degraded dry land. Due to high dependence on rain-fed agriculture including food grains, scarcity of water supply led to low yields.  Realising the gravity of the looming crisis, the Pudu Udok farmers club from Dharmapur III in Changlang District of Arunachal Pradesh came together to solve this problem to continue their earnings

Millet is a whole grain that has been part of the human diet since the earliest civilization. Millets are known as the small-seeded climate-resilient crops which are resistant to pests and diseases and have better production capacities even under stressful climatic conditions. It can be cultivated in a short span of 80-90 days. Foxtail millet (Setaria italica) and Finger millets (Eleusine coracana) are types of millets that are known to be the oldest

The menace of Human Trafficking thrives on the vulnerability of the destitute section of  the population. Often referred to as Modern Day Slavery, Human Trafficking provides favourable conditions for other ills to raise heads within and around the society, including prostitution, forced labour, organ harvesting, drug abuse, and many more. United Nations Sustainable Goal 10 speaks about “Social and Income Inequality” as a pressing global problem

Caritas India joined the celebration of the International Labour Day at Raja Ram Mohan Roy Memorial New Delhi on 2nd May 2022 to mark the event with her three partners Nirmana, Prachodana and Chetanalaya under the Pravasi Bandhu programme. Throughout its existence, Caritas India has strived to uphold the shared values of human dignity and impart the same to the public. This programme intended to iterate and cherish the same values by inviting attention

Caritas India and its partner directors along with their project coordinators converged at Navjeevan Renewal Center, Delhi on 27th & 28th April 2022 for the SAKSHAM orientation programme and proposal development write-shop. For this two-day, write-shop thirty-three participants from 18 partner dioceses and 7 Caritas India staff gathered to initial orientation and proposal development.  Fr. (Dr.) Jolly Puthenpura, Assistant Executive Director,

Caritas Australia supported, “Rebuilding Lives of Migrant Workers” is a recently launched programme of Caritas India and is in its initial phase for the first year. As part of contextual analysis for the initial phase, a baseline survey will be conducted in the intervention areas to understand the situation of migrant workers in order to measure the programme indicators. In this regard, a one-day orientation training programme for the volunteers

"I was able to earn more than Rs.80,000 in the last six months because of Caritas India's Gram Nirman programme training and input support," says Sonaram Bodra of Dango village, Kuchai block, Saraikela Kharsawan district. Sonaram, comes from a tribal group who lives with his wife Pushpa Bodra in Dango village of Kuchai block. It is an administrative block of the Saraikela district in Jharkhand and home to around 13,405 families, of which 75% are