Caritas joins UN Global humanitarian appeal

(Vatican Radio)The UN’s Global Consolidated Humanitarian Appeal for 2013 was launched on Friday in Rome by the United Nation’s World Food Programme, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Caritas Internationalis. It focuses on 16 humanitarian crises around the world including Yemen, Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Sahel.

Syria has also been added to next year’s list.

It’s an “appeal that brings together all the needs of the various UN agencies working in the field on the humanitarian front …it will concern 51 million people in need and for an amount of 8.5 billion dollars. “ says the Secretary General of Caritas Internationalis, Michel Roy.

He also told Lydia O’Kane that despite humanitarian assistance being in countries affected by conflict, globally speaking crises as a result of natural disasters, such as flooding and drought. Listen to Lydia O’Kane’s interview with Michel Roy