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Not long after the 8.8 earthquake rocked Chile early Saturday morning, Caritas flew out their emergency response team from Haiti.
Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organizations operating in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.
“It was an enormous earthquake, so you would expect major damage,” said Alistair Dutton. [...]

Catholic Relief Services will kick off their annual global hunger awareness program Feb. 17, the same day Catholics begin their spiritual journey during the season of Lent.
Some 12,000 communities take part in Operation Rice Bowl, which gets its name from the symbolic rice bowl that’s utilized as the focal point.
The program also calls to mind [...]

Catholic agencies call for rigorous safeguards to protect Haitian children
The heads of five major Catholic agencies outlined measures that should be taken to protect unaccompanied Haitian Children.
These agencies, involved in the Haitian earthquake relief effort, detailed the steps in a Feb. 4 letter sent to three cabinet members, according to a press release from the [...]

Catholic Relief Services wants supporters to urge key senators to increase funding of international adaptation programs in climate change legislation.
“Contact your senator now and urge that any climate change legislation considered in the Senate allocate $3.5 billion of funding generated by the bill to international adaptation programs starting in 2012 and increase rapidly to $7 [...]

Earlier this summer, I traveled to the border with a group from All Saints Catholic Newman Center. We went to Agua Prieta, Mexico to see some of the work being done for deported immigrants. But perhaps even more interesting was Café Justo coffee roaster located in that city.
Café Justo is a coffee grower cooperative based [...]