VATICAN (CNS): Caritas Internationalis marks World Humanitarian Day on Friday, August 19, with the campaign, Our Local Heroes, as a way to thank Caritas staff “for their service, for their professionalism and effectiveness, for their heart, for their compassion, for their solidarity, for the hope they bring,” and to call for needed action, it said on a dedicated page of its website, caritas.org.
Caritas Internationalis “is witnessing a global and unprecedented food crisis which is particularly severe in the Horn of Africa and Sahel regions, where millions of people are affected by acute food insecurity and malnutrition,” it said in its media release. If needed measures are not taken now, “the global humanitarian situation is likely to continue to worsen.”
“Caritas staff are always there, everywhere in the world, at every moment: before, during, and after the crises,” said Aloysius John, secretary-general of Caritas Internationalis. “They are both alongside and part of the communities, providing not only humanitarian relief, but also working for sustainable development, peacebuilding and social cohesion. They offer their services and even their lives for the cause of the human person,” he said in a media statement released on August 18.
https://www.caritas.org/world-humanitarian-day-2022/
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World Humanitarian Day marks the date in 2003 when a bomb attack on the Canal Hotel in Baghdad killed 22 humanitarian aid workers, including Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN special representative of the secretary-general for Iraq.
