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Honey money: Beekeeping provides new livelihoods in drought-prone Kenya
Dorcas Kenyatta lives in Kitui County, one of the most arid areas in Kenya. Following her husband’s death, she str...
Read ArticleWater for everyone – Supplying water in rural Africa
The Trócaire team from Malawi, Rwanda and Zimbabwe, presented their innovative and sustainable work on supplying water,...
Read ArticleSupporting women’s livelihoods in Ebola affected communities
Stories from Trócaire project funded by the Australian High Commission’s Direct Aid Program (DAP). Compiled by Maria ...
Read ArticleProtecting rights to customary land in Northern Uganda
Trócaire’s Lisa Byrne reports on the continuing legacy of land-grabbing and conflict in Northern Uganda in the af...
Read ArticleLand for women, opportunities for life
Every day Aurora Zarate arranges the products on the window of her pulpería, a convenience store, before opening it. Sh...
Read ArticleRecovering from TB and malnutrition in Somalia
Fardoza sits on her father’s arms, looking on as he talks with a doctor from Luuq hospital in Gedo, Somalia. She’s o...
Read ArticleAn oasis in the desert: Greenhouses transform drought-stricken community in Kenya
Turkana County is an arid area in north-west Kenya which has experienced significant drought in recent years due to clim...
Read ArticleTaking control of food production in Zimbabwe: Sarafina’s story
Caption: Sarafina and family members harvesting crops on their farm ‘Social protections and agriculture: Breaking the ...
Read ArticleSitting under a tree to shelter from the relentless sun, Mary speaks about her worries. She speaks slowly and softly, ch...
Read ArticleSierra Leone declared Ebola free
By Michael Solis, Trócaire Programme Manager, Sierra Leone Nineteen months since the onset of the world’s worst Ebola...
Read ArticleSupporting orphaned children and caretakers in Sierra Leone’s post-Ebola recovery
By Michael Solis, Programme Manager; Mustapha Abu, Sustainable Livelihoods and Resource Rights Officer, Trócaire ...
Read ArticleClimate change and conflict out-pacing poverty reduction
By Éamonn Meehan If recent events in Europe have highlighted anything it is the all-too-often slow response of politica...
Read ArticleRose Hogan, Trócaire’s policy advisor on sustainable agriculture, reports from Guatemala on the global lessons that c...
Read ArticleUK Aid Match funding in action
This Lent, the UK government will match, pound for pound, all public donations to the campaign in Northern Ireland, up t...
Read ArticleHonduras: Update on the Lent 2011 community
Four years ago at Lent, Trócaire highlighted the difficulties faced by the small farming community of La Confianza in t...
Read ArticleGerardo Amantillo (74) from Basey, close to Tacloban on Leyte island. Photo: Eoghan Rice – Trócaire / Caritas Whe...
Read ArticleVolunteer report: Trócaire’s vital water projects in Ethiopia
by Rebecca Smyth, Trócaire Volunteer In February 2014, Rebecca Smyth travelled to Ethiopia to visit Trócaire pr...
Read ArticleSuccess in the struggle for water in Zimbabwe: Thandiwe Ncube’s story
by Margaret Masanga and Nelly Maonde, Trócaire Zimbabwe Trócaire marks International Women’s Day (8 March) wi...
Read ArticleBiofuel policy is feeding cars but starving people
by Éamonn Meehan, Executive Director If a policy was enacted that not only failed to achieve its intended result...
Read ArticleFrom Cork to Bullee Dheela: How your donations make a difference
by Tamiru Legesse, Communications Officer, Ethiopia Tamiru Legesse from our Ethiopia office vis...
Read ArticleWe must tackle the structural factors that inhibit development and produce poverty
By Justin Kilcullen, Executive Director of Trócaire Brazilian archbishop Hélder Camara once famously noted, “...
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