Inside the headquarters of Caritas Bunia in northern DR Congo, 12 of us sat round an enormous table in the fading light.
Representatives of CAFOD, Caritas, Congolese environmental charity Ocean, local civil society network CdC and academics from South Africa had gathered to discuss the present and future social and environmental impacts of the AngloGold Ashanti [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Honduras’
May 15, 2009
Congo: Thousands of miners could face poverty
February 25, 2009
Honduras: A country we thought we knew
Hot, dusty, sweaty, smelly Tegucigalpa is a city of 1.8 million. Its name means “hill of silver” in the local indigenous language, and it is indeed extremely hilly – which means many people are in danger from regular landslides.
Some of the hills can move up to one metre a year – for example, we saw [...]
February 24, 2009
Honduras: A deep and urgent solidarity
Today we met the movers and shakers, founders, and all-round inspirations behind COMAL. We told them about the climate change campaign as they have a campaign about “eating what we grow” – they have strong messages we can learn from.
Trino Sanchez, the executive director, told us: “We all breathe the same air, the important thing [...]
February 23, 2009
Honduras: A community on the edge
Today we went to Buenos Aires (the Honduran version) to meet families whose land was devastated following the floods of October and November last year.
Their fields were very high up on the side of a mountain. The roads there were terrible, and we had to swap our minivan for 4×4s to get up there. We [...]
February 19, 2009
Honduras: Wealth provided by the land
The first thing you see when you fly into San Pedro Sula (the second city of Honduras) is the fields and fields of bananas. It’s the crop that put Honduras on the map and they’re crazy about them.
And coffee – cash crops for the export market. After learning a bit of Spanish and doing some [...]
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