Caritas Nigeria Anti-hunger and Poverty campaign launch
By Cecilia Agrinya
“One of the cardinal works of mercy in the Catholic Church is to feed the hungry”
– Fr. Bassey

Caritas Nigeria on Tuesday, 10th December, 2013 joined the Holy Father and the confederation of Caritas around the world in the “wave of prayer” to launch the “One Human Family, Food for All campaign”.

The campaign which was launched in Rome by the Holy Father Pope Francis, had all other Caritas launching on the same day around the world. It is part of the global efforts of Caritas Internationalis to end hunger in the world through the provision of humanitarian and development interventions around the world. The goal of the campaign is to uphold human dignity by ending hunger by 2030 on all continents.

In Nigeria, the campaign launch started with a Holy Mass officiated by Caritas Executive Director Rev. Fr. Evaristus Bassey, the Deputy Secretary General of Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria Rev. Fr. Zachariah Samjumi and Directors of various departments of the Secretariat, with over a hundred staff and friends of Caritas in attendance who participated in saying the campaign prayer.
Speaking during the press briefing, Caritas Director Fr. Bassey said “right from time, the Catholic Church has been involved in the provision of services and one of the cardinal works of mercy is to feed the hungry.
The Church is very passionate about the theme of this campaign which is emphasizing that every individual has the right to food.”

Fr. Bassey admonished government at all levels in Nigeria to manage resources efficiently to ensure that there is enough food to feed everyone. “In this country there are enormous resources and if all the levels of government beginning from the Local to the State and Federal governments will manage the resources from the allocation each level gets monthly and can manage the resources very well, we will be able to meet the needs of the millions of our people; like Ghandi said there is enough for everybody’s need but there is not enough for everybody’s greed. So if government will take the fight against corruption more seriously then government will do a lot more about internal controls on how it spends its resources and prioritize focusing on poverty eradication as agreed on during the last United Nations General Assembly”.

The Director concluded by saying that the Church will continue to engage and advise government on the need to address corruption and eradicate poverty in Nigeria. He also stated that whatever the Church can do even in terms of provision of services it will continue to do so.

Caritas Nigeria in 2012 supported 4,452 vulnerable households in the Sahel region of the Northern Nigeria by providing them the means to fight hunger and poverty. It has also supported 2,500 households in the Niger Delta who lost their livelihoods to the 2012 flooding, through the Integrated Emergency Recovery program which ended in October, 2013. In all these places, Caritas provided unconditional cash transfers and agricultural inputs to boost food production and support other means of livelihood. Caritas is also a partner on the five-year Support to Vulnerable Households project which will help 42,000 very poor households in Sokoto State and the FCT grow their agricultural production and incomes and improve the nutrition of their women and children.

Other activities to mark the "One Human Family, Food for all” included collaborating with the Justice, Development and Peace/Caritas Commission of the Catholic Diocese of Lafia to distribute food items to some internally displaced persons who lost their homes and livelihoods in recent communal clashes in Nasarawa State.

In the course of 2014, which has also been declared the International Year of Family Farming, Caritas Nigeria will disseminate campaign messages to create awareness about the hunger (and poverty) situation in Nigeria, and will build partnerships with the Ministry of Agriculture and other poverty reduction agencies of government and civil society to advocate for policies to improve food security and reduce hunger. Through the Church network, Caritas Nigeria will work with local parishes to encourage families and communities to grow their own food. During the “Global week of Action in 2014”, the organization also plans to host a fundraising dinner to support its food security program.

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