Clay pot fridge: simple ways to store food
In places where there are no refrigerators or cold storage options, Caritas India teaches rural families how to create this “clay pot fridge” to keep food cool.
View ArticleShare your plate challenge: pasta e fagioli (pasta and bean soup)
KEY INGREDIENTS Beans Pasta (or flour) Tomato sauce Olive oil Carrots, celery, chili pepper As part of the “One Human Family, Food For All” campaign, Father Larry Snyder of Catholic Charities (a...
View ArticleEU Parliament endorses right to food
MEP Elly Schlein holds a “Food for All” bowl to show her support. In Europe and many other regions, the Caritas “Food for All” campaign involves asking government leaders to think of the hungry when...
View ArticleFish that is cruelty-free–for fishers
As part of Caritas’ “One Human Family, Food for All” campaign, we interviewed Father Bruno Ciceri about issues that fishers face as they work to bring us the food we eat. Father Bruno is part of the...
View ArticleSeeds of hope: preventing farmer suicides in India
Interview with Sunil Simon, Team Leader-Natural Resource Management for Caritas India. Sadly, many farmers in India have committed suicide in recent years. Can you tell me more about this? We weren’t...
View ArticleFood campaign updates on Facebook
Every day, the worldwide Caritas network helps the hungry. Here are updates from our campaign Facebook page, facebook.com/CaritasFoodForAll.
View ArticleHands-on ways to beat hunger
Text and photos by Laura Sheahen/Caritas “We used to run out of wheat to eat after six or seven months. Then we’d have to buy it.” Lalita Bhalla, a grandmother living with her husband in a farming...
View ArticlePope Francis urges Catholics to “set the table” for all
During his homily at the opening Mass of the Caritas Internationalis General Assembly in Rome on May 12, 2015, Pope Francis spoke of the “Food for All” campaign and urged Catholics to feed the hungry....
View ArticlePope Francis on how we can fight hunger
On 11 June 2015, Pope Francis spoke to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations about hunger. Here are excerpts from his address. …the number of people who have difficulties...
View ArticleHow we beat hunger – Women’s letter
Across the globe, Caritas programmes empower women to grow food or learn skills so they can earn a living and feed their families. A group of women in Pakistan wrote this letter to other women’s...
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