A New Chapter in the Church’s Commitment to Human Dignity
In a bold step toward promoting dignity, respect, and equality, the Catholic Church in Nigeria, through Caritas Nigeria, has launched the Abuja Archdiocesan Technical Working Group (TWG) for the Catholic Action for Respect and Equality (CARE) Project, a gender-based violence (GBV) prevention initiative supported by the Ford Foundation. The inauguration took place on October 24 […]
Background to CARES Act Project
Nigeria reported its first case of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) on February 27, 2020 in Ogun state. Since then, the Government made concerted efforts to contain, interrupt and end transmission of the virus among Nigerians. Despite these efforts, cases continued to increase in number and geographical spread. Community engagement being critical to the success of contact tracing efforts […]
Over two hundred thousand receive COVID 19 vaccinations under the CARES Act project
As part of activities under the CARES Act project in the last five months, Caritas Nigeria facilitated the vaccination of about 200,000 Nigerians for COVID 19.