Update on Collection for Sahel In 2012, Pope Benedict XVI attention to a humanitarian crisis in West Africa’s Sahel region because of extreme drought, food insecurity, poverty, internal migrations and unstable political conditions.
Caritas Internationalis and national Caritas organizations responded, including Caritas Canada, that is, the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace. The Executive Committee accepted CCODP’s invitation to make the Sahel a joint fundraising effort involving the Conference with Development and Peace. Click here for a report from CCODP in
French or
English. The funds eventually raised totalled $9.8 million. As the funding raised by the joint CCODP-CCCB initiative ended in 2016, the enclosed report covers the years 2011 to 2016. However, as it also notes, the Sahel crisis is not over; it has become even more complex, and so CCODP indicates the Sahel will continue to be one of its priorities.