Caritas acts to help Sudanese refugees

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22 August 2004

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Caritas acts to help Sudanese refugees

CONCERN: Children are sick, some suffering malnutrition.

By Chris Lindsay

Caritas Australia has made an initial commitment of $250,000 for the provision of food, clean water, shelter, sanitation, mobile health clinics and trauma counselling for the refugees in western Sudan and neighbouring Chad.

It has launched an appeal with Action by Churches Together to raise funds for people who have been assaulted, raped and driven off their land by Sudanese government-backed militias.

The UN has described the situation as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

Pope John Paul II has sent a special envoy, Archbishop Paul Josef Cordes, to the western Sudan.

With UN help, Archbishop Cordes went to Darfur, where it is increasingly difficult to travel because of the confrontations, and visited the refugee camps in Nyala.

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