Caritas India has launched its new vehicle campaign in Kerala to prepare communities across 310 Panchayat Wards to face the possible damages that may happen due to monsoon. As part of the campaign information on preventive aspects of COVID-19 is also disseminated. A pre-recorded standardized audio is played on spreading awareness on landslides, cyclones and floods that may happen due to monsoon and Covid-19 precautions. The vehicle will pass across

The national agricultural research system in India is mainly focusing on exploring and providing solutions to large scale agricultural producers that comprise only 22% of the farming sector. Smallholder requires a completely different set of solutions compared to larger producers. Especially in rain-fed areas, these diverse production systems have varied and distinct challenges for which top-down research has rarely led to improvements. There is

Cyclone AMPHAN made landfall in West Bengal on 20th May 2020 at about 2.30 pm (IST). The storm had weakened from a super cyclone to an extremely severe cyclonic storm and was the fiercest in 100 years to hit West Bengal (WB). National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the WB government facilitated in the evacuation of about five lakh people in West Bengal. An estimated storm surge of 5 m (16 ft) inundated a wide swath of coastal communities with

Three days campaign on Wheels to create awareness In the midst of COVID-19 crisis, the important role of first responders has become even more important, particularly as the restrictions imposed by the pandemic have made their work even more difficult. Still, their contribution is often overlooked and unrecognized. The 2020 theme for the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons was to focus on the first responders to human trafficking, who

Cardinal Oswald Gracias, the president of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India has released the study on distressed migrants in the context of COVID-19 on July 30, 2020. The study was jointly conducted by Caritas India, Indo-Global Social Service Society (IGSSS) and Indian Social Institute (ISI), Bengaluru. “For the first time we realised the importance of migrants for the cities, we cannot carry on without migrants. Our economy, our constructions,

Cancer Care Campaign in Tamil Nadu is named as Ezhuvom Iyakkam. After much thought deliberations, since January 2020, it is being implemented in 21 Dioceses through 27 Diocesan Social Service Society (DSSS)  partners. The key interventions include Programme Launch by  27 DSSSs to give orientation to stakeholders comprising people from different walks of public life and institutionalisation of various committees for sustainable mechanism more significantly

A two-day virtual orientation cum training session was organised on 14th and 15th July 2020 for the State Officers by the SP Team. The training was attended by fifteen Caritas India staff – nine State Officers and 5 SP Team members. The purpose of this training was to orient and capacitate all the state officers on the (Key Strategic Pillars) KSPs and the indicators as enlisted in the Guidebook. State officers are the front-runners in all the states

Heavy rainfall and floods affected the state of Assam and Bihar and displaced millions amidst Covid-19 pandemic. In Assam, the heavy monsoon rains caused flooding in 27 districts and displaced 26, 37,513 people. According to the Assam Disaster Management Authority Report, around 47,772 people have taken refuge in 564 relief camps and centres as on July 25, 2020. A total of 1,16,939.69 hectares of crop area has been affected across 2370 villages.