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January 27, 2016 Georgia

Learning how to fundraise better in Armenia

From January 18 to 21, 2016, a course called “Better Fundraising for Armenia” took place in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. The course familiarised 25 people with methods to fundraise more effectively, financing options for non-governmental organisations, budget creation, project proposal creation and how to obtain European grants. A similar course also took place in Tbilisi in Georgia.

January 26, 2016 Ukraine

Public collection for Ukraine

In June 2015 the Caritas CR discussed with the Association of Private Agriculture CR the possibility of organizing a public collection for Ukraine. In the beginning of July, the collection was publicly announced in the magazine Selská Revue and it was held from 31 August to 25 September 2015. There were nine collection points in nine regions all over the Czech Republic, namely in the regions of Plzen, Litoměřice, Český Krumlov, Prague, Benešov, Žďár nad Sázavou, Rychnov nad Kněžnou, Kroměříž a Tábor. The collections were transferred to Ukraine in the course of the first week in November.

January 25, 2016 Moldova

A new training module for all specialists in inclusive education

From November 2015, a new training module for Moldavian specialists in early childhood inclusive education has been updated. The former version of this module was designed for teachers involved in the programme “Education for everybody” or “Global partnership for education”.

January 21, 2016 Syria

An appeal to end the suffering in Syria

Three years ago, the leaders of UN humanitarian agencies issued an urgent appeal to those who could end the conflict in Syria. They called for every effort to save the Syrian people. “Enough”, they said, of the suffering and bloodshed. That was three years ago. Now, the war is approaching its sixth brutal year. The bloodshed continues. The suffering deepens. Read more on caritas.org.

January 20, 2016 Moldova

Meeting at the Comrat University yielded promising plans for the future

On 30 November 2015, a public meeting at Comrat University was held, which focused on Including youth in public life in the town. Together, 101 visitors of different ethnic groups from the autonomous region of Gagauzia met on university grounds, including: students alone, members of so called action groups formerly established by Caritas CR, local citizens, journalists and representatives of towns involved in Caritas CR activities.

January 19, 2016 Georgia

Mzia from Georgia: I beat cancer and founded my own club

Caritas CR workers met in Guira province in the town of Lanchkhuti, Georgia for training in oncological diseases. There they met Mzia, a woman who had beaten cancer and founded a women’s club in Lanchkhuti. She talked to Jana Kopriňáková about her experiences and what she learned from her illness.

January 14, 2016 Syria

Navid Muhammad hopes in return to his hometown near Damascus

"The life is like a roller coaster, once you are up and then you are down again. The happy days were gone and the days of sorrow, pain, and resettlement of war brought tragic experiences, sadness and separation of families," says 62-year-old Navid Muhammad, the head of a family of four in a rural town called Maloula. The town is located near the Syrian capital, rich with historical and religious monuments. Mr. Muhammad described his broad experiences to the staff of a humanitarian aid center in Damascus.

January 12, 2016 Philippines

System of Rice Intensification helps farmers in Samar to cope with El Niño

El Niño is a phenomenon first observed by fishermen from South America manifested by heating the surface water of the Pacific Ocean. El Niño occurs when the warming of at least 0,5 °C lasts longer than three months. However, the average duration ranges from nine to twelve months. The phenomenon is repeated in two to seven-year intervals, and not only the Philippines suffers from a lack of harvest because of it.

January 8, 2016 Syria

Syrian humanitarian workers visited Farid El-Hashem's family

Caritas CR, together with a local organisation in the Syrian capital Damascus, which cannot be named due to security reasons, provide food and one-time use vouchers for clothing and home furnishing for families which had to leave their homes because of the ongoing conflict. All aid receivers registered in the humanitarian centre are visited regularly by the local workers in their temporary shelters and that is how they also learned the story of Mr. Farid El-Hashem.

January 4, 2016 Moldova

Chisinau began activities for the implementation of inclusive practices in pre-school education

On November 19^th, 2015, an initiation meeting for the implementation of inclusion in pre-primary education called“Partnership for inclusion“ took place in Chisinau. The meeting was attended by its direct partners, representatives of the organisation Woman and Child – Protection and Support and the representatives of the Republic’s centre of psycho-pedagogic support, ADRA and other organisations working in this area. The initiation was presented by Sergei Lysenko, a specialist on informal education, and it was also attended by honourable guests from the Czech Embassy in Chisinau. Each guest had chance to comment on the plans.

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Learning how to fundraise better in Armenia

Public collection for Ukraine

A new training module for all specialists in inclusive education

An appeal to end the suffering in Syria

Meeting at the Comrat University yielded promising plans for the future

Mzia from Georgia: I beat cancer and founded my own club

Navid Muhammad hopes in return to his hometown near Damascus

System of Rice Intensification helps farmers in Samar to cope with El Niño

Syrian humanitarian workers visited Farid El-Hashem's family

Chisinau began activities for the implementation of inclusive practices in pre-school education

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