Saving the lives of mothers and children by getting husbands involved

Many women in rural areas of Nicaragua give birth at home with minimal health services and little support from their husbands. Through the Child Survival Project, CRS and community members have helped fathers understand the importance of women’s health. As a result, the number of women delivering their babies in hospitals has increased by 60 percent, and 95 percent of the targeted couples have birth plans in place before delivery.

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Seminar in Rome addresses Catholic peacebuilding challenges

Catholic leaders from some of the world’s worst conflict zones gathered at the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in Rome on May 29 and 30 to discuss ways to make peace. Nigeria, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Somalia, Peru, Colombia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo were among the 22 countries represented in a seminar titled New Challenges for Catholic Peacebuilding.

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CRS celebrates the achievements of the Great Lakes Cassava Initiative project

The Great Lakes Cassava Initiative (GLCI) field teams and CRS headquarters staff celebrated the project’s achievement in disseminating clean cassava seed to 1,200,000 smallholder farmer households. The four-year project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, addressed cassava seed availability within the context of the existing Cassava Mosaic Disease and the emergent Cassava Brown Streak Disease in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. Click here to read more about the event.

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