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Climate change: facing the challenge
Climate change is a reality and it’s affecting our work worldwide. Here, two CAFOD staff reflect on how the communities they work with are coping with extreme weather.
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In La Palma, El Salvador, 20 artisan painters and carpenters are supporting their families by selling crosses in memory of Archbishop Oscar Romero, and keeping his memory alive.
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Press release: Bishops from across continents walk in solidarity against water poverty
In an image released to mark World Water Day (March 22) bishops from the UK and Zimbabwe walk in support of CAFOD’s Thirst for Change campaign to end water poverty.
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Press release: Barefoot Torchbearer keeps the Olympic Flame alive
An Olympic Torchbearer from Consett, County Durham, has decided to donate his torch to a gym for boys and girls living in a slum 8,000 kilometres away in Kenya, who inspired him to run his leg of the Torch Relay barefoot.
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TAGS: 207.Kenya, 330.London 2012, 328.Press release
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Press release: Consett School sends shoes to Kenya
Children at St Patrick’s Primary School in Consett have donated more than 60 pairs of shoes to children living in the Korogocho Slum in Nairobi, Kenya, after a special visit from the ‘Barefoot Runner’.
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Press release: Barefoot Torchbearer hailed as ‘Olympic Hero’ in Kenya
An Olympic Torchbearer from Consett, County Durham, has been hailed as the first hero of London 2012 after handing over his torch to children in a slum 8,000 kilometres away in Kenya.
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Preserving culture through strength
As large-scale farming and logging cuts into the Amazon, indigenous groups are increasingly under threat. Literacy and awareness training helps ensure their rights are protected
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Rio +20: Brazil’s indigenous people speak out for greener, fairer future
Twenty years after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, Brazil, more than 100 government representatives from around the world, including Britain’s Caroline Spelman and Nick Clegg, will attend the Rio+20 Summit in June.
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TAGS: 17.Campaigning, 267.Campaigning news, 175.Climate change and environment, 26.Climate Justice, 127.Rio
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Over 180 Cyclists Pedal Against Poverty!
The rain may have stopped the tennis at Queens and the racing at Silverstone, but it didn’t stop 180 people from taking part in CAFOD’s fifth annual Pedal Against Poverty sponsored Cycle Ride.
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Chris Bain elected president of CIDSE
CAFOD’s director, Chris Bain has recently been elected president of CIDSE, an international alliance of Catholic development agencies.
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