Clifton Diocese’s Tony Vassallo visits Darfur with CAFOD
Tony Vassallo, CAFOD’s Clifton Diocese Manager, is traveling this week
with the Director of CAFOD Chris Bain, to Darfur, to see how CAFOD as
part of the ACT/Caritas network is helping people affected by the
spiraling humanitarian and security crisis in the region of Sudan.
Tony will be visiting camps to see for himself the life saving work that CAFOD has been supporting. He said, “This is the greatest concentration of human suffering in the world and we need to carry on the vital work of keeping people alive through our health clinics, feeding centres and water and sanitation projects. We can’t just walk away from the people we have been supporting for the last three years.”
CAFOD has launched a £3million Emergency Appeal, in response to the escalating humanitarian tragedy, where hundreds of thousands of people driven from their homes by the continuing violence, are in need of adequate shelter, clean water, proper sanitation, healthcare and essential household items such as cooking utensils, blankets and soap.
Tony Vassallo said, “CAFOD is working hard to ensure that hundreds of thousands of vulnerable women, children and men now living in sprawling camps, are able to get basic care like clean drinking water, medicines and enough food to eat. Money raised from the people in the Clifton Diocese will mean that CAFOD will be able to maintain and extend its current commitment to the people of Darfur and save lives.”
In 2004, over one million in Darfur were at risk. Now more than 200,000 are believed to have died and at least two million people have been forced from their homes. A further one million people in surrounding towns and villages are affected by their arrival with more people needing access to water, healthcare, firewood and food.
CAFOD’s Darfur and Chad Emergency Appeal reflects how the crisis in Darfur is threatening regional security. As a direct consequence of the conflict more than 225,000 refugees have crossed the border into eastern Chad. This neighbouring country is coping with its own 140,000 displaced people because of internal conflict.
As the human suffering continues in Darfur and Chad, CAFOD is calling on the international community to put its weight behind securing inclusive dialogue in both Chad and Darfur. Only dialogue will provide long-term peace and address the historical root causes of the conflict.
Nana Anto-Awuakye
Useful URL : http://www.cafod.org
Tony will be visiting camps to see for himself the life saving work that CAFOD has been supporting. He said, “This is the greatest concentration of human suffering in the world and we need to carry on the vital work of keeping people alive through our health clinics, feeding centres and water and sanitation projects. We can’t just walk away from the people we have been supporting for the last three years.”
CAFOD has launched a £3million Emergency Appeal, in response to the escalating humanitarian tragedy, where hundreds of thousands of people driven from their homes by the continuing violence, are in need of adequate shelter, clean water, proper sanitation, healthcare and essential household items such as cooking utensils, blankets and soap.
Tony Vassallo said, “CAFOD is working hard to ensure that hundreds of thousands of vulnerable women, children and men now living in sprawling camps, are able to get basic care like clean drinking water, medicines and enough food to eat. Money raised from the people in the Clifton Diocese will mean that CAFOD will be able to maintain and extend its current commitment to the people of Darfur and save lives.”
In 2004, over one million in Darfur were at risk. Now more than 200,000 are believed to have died and at least two million people have been forced from their homes. A further one million people in surrounding towns and villages are affected by their arrival with more people needing access to water, healthcare, firewood and food.
CAFOD’s Darfur and Chad Emergency Appeal reflects how the crisis in Darfur is threatening regional security. As a direct consequence of the conflict more than 225,000 refugees have crossed the border into eastern Chad. This neighbouring country is coping with its own 140,000 displaced people because of internal conflict.
As the human suffering continues in Darfur and Chad, CAFOD is calling on the international community to put its weight behind securing inclusive dialogue in both Chad and Darfur. Only dialogue will provide long-term peace and address the historical root causes of the conflict.
Nana Anto-Awuakye
Useful URL : http://www.cafod.org
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