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Charity Foreign Aid

Caritas welcomes Australia’s move to protect aid workers

Caritas Australia has welcomed the Australian Government’s move to take a leading role internationally in protecting aid workers.

Africa Foreign Aid

Labor announces $23m aid package for Horn of Africa

The Albanese Government has announced a $23 million funding package to help deliver healthcare, food, and clean water amid ongoing humanitarian crises in the Horn of Africa. Source: Caritas Australia.

Foreign Aid

How to respond to growing global challenges

Caritas Australia gathered supporters and ministers together at NSW Parliament House this week to discuss how the charity is responding to a series of increasingly intense and complex global challenges. 

Foreign Aid Refugees

Caritas highlights needs in world’s largest refugee camp

This World Refugee Week (June 17-20), Caritas Australia is shining a light on the plight of the one million people in the world’s largest refugee camp, Kutupalong in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

Foreign Aid Middle East

Caritas welcomes $10m government aid package for Gaza 

Caritas Australia has welcomed the Albanese Government’s $10 million aid package to support the World Food Programme in Gaza, announced yesterday.

Foreign Aid Ukraine

Caritas welcomes Government support of the vulnerable in Ukraine 

Caritas Australia has welcomed the Albanese Government’s decision to provide $31 million to help meet Ukraine’s energy and humanitarian needs.

Foreign Aid Pacific

Australia stands alongside PNG, sends aid after landslide 

Australia is holding out hope for Papua New Guinea following a deadly landslide, with assistance already under way, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. Source: SBS News.

Budget Foreign Aid

Budget lifts aid but much more needed: Caritas

Caritas Australia has welcomed the Albanese Government’s addition of $193 million to overseas development assistance in the federal Budget, but says Australia has a moral, economic and political imperative to support countries in need.

Africa Foreign Aid

Caritas urges Australian Government to increase aid to Sudan

Caritas Australia yesterday marked the one year anniversary of the civil war between armed militias in Sudan, calling on the Albanese Government to help improve aid access for the impoverished nation.