Three years since the war broke out in Sudan. Tens of millions displaced. And the world is still largely looking away.
While international attention has fallen short, Sudanese communities built their own response: 700 Emergency Response Rooms, 26,000 volunteers, 12 million people reached.
Geen leger, geen economische macht… en toch vormt paus Leo XIV een tegenwicht in een wereld waarin machtspolitiek ons steeds meer verdeelt. Zijn reis naar Algerije deze week is geen toeval. Het is een keuze. In dit opinieartikel legt Cordaid-directeur Heleen van den Berg uit waarom dat ertoe doet 👇
On this #WorldHealthDay, we look back on a century of dedication and ahead to everything we still need to do.
What started as a group of Dutch missionaries and doctors setting off for distant continents became a global health movement that has helped millions of people access the care they need.
A Cordaid health worker in South Sudan spent hours hiding with a young boy he found wandering alone in the chaos of an attack that killed more than 180 people.
Exactly one month ago, gunmen swept through Abiemnhom County. The world barely noticed. Most international media were focused elsewhere.
As March comes to a close, we are sharing a selection of quotes from female colleagues across our organisation on what women’s rights and equality mean to them.
Because listening should not begin and end on 8 March.
#WomensMonth
Just because Gaza disappeared from the headlines, does not mean the crisis is over...
Caritas Jerusalem's medical points are still operating, delivering care to tens of thousands of people.
Cordaid supports Caritas Jerusalem's activities in Gaza and the West Bank.
Burundi has one of the highest rates of learning poverty worldwide. Cordaid's education project in Muramvya tackles this through performance-based financing: schools earn subsidies tied to results and reinvest them in infrastructure and teaching quality.
For the first time in Burundi, farmers can insure their harvests against drought and flooding.
Cordaid's new index-based scheme covers maize, potatoes and rice, with automatic payouts when rainfall crosses risk thresholds.
Read more 👇
Our new position paper, Rewriting the Script: Why Positive Masculinities Matter for Peace and Equality, makes the case that healthy, positive forms of masculinity are essential to achieving gender equality, peace, and better health outcomes for everyone.
As air strikes intensify and displacement reaches catastrophic levels, our colleagues at Caritas Lebanon explain why stopping is simply not an option.
We spoke with two staff members about what it means to keep working through the crisis.
Don't forget, Syria is still in crisis. 15.5 million people are in need.
Sara Savva is the Deputy Director General of GOPA-DERD, a key partner of Cordaid in Syria. She sees what the international media rarely covers.
'A lot of people in the Middle East suffer in silence,' she says.
A savings cooperative in rural Rwanda is quietly rewriting what climate finance can look like. Umurabyo SACCO gives small farmers green loans for agroforestry and solar irrigation. Its green loan portfolio more than doubled in two years.
International Women's Day
Today we honour the women leading change in their families, communities, and countries, and those who fought to secure the rights we have today. Stand with us and our local partners in amplifying women’s voices, strengthening their leadership, and building equitable systems.
'I suddenly heard a loud noise. It felt as if the whole city were shaking.'
Our country director in Kabul describes what it was like when Pakistani aircraft struck Afghanistan on 26 Feb, and what it means for the millions already living through a humanitarian crisis.
Mali has plenty of fertile land. Yet smallholder farmers lose up to 60% of their harvest to spoilage, and are forced to sell the rest at rock-bottom prices.
A €1.7m grant from the @postcodelottery.bsky.social is changing that: solar irrigation, cold storage, and co-op training for 20,000+ farmers.
Sudan has the world's largest humanitarian crisis. It also has one of the most innovative aid networks you've probably never heard of. 700 community-run Emergency Response Rooms. 26,000 volunteers. Response times of hours, not months.
Read more 👇
Four years into Russia's full-scale invasion, we're sharing six stories of Ukrainians whose lives have been upended: a mother keeping her newborn warm during 10-hour blackouts, a man who left with two bags and a lifetime of memories, a child who stopped speaking after the shelling.
Four years of war in Ukraine: 10.8 million people need urgent humanitarian support.
This winter: millions without heating or electricity during the coldest months in years.
And the world's attention is fading...
Haiti: 6.4M people need aid. Armed groups control 90% of Port-au-Prince. 1.4M displaced. Yet it's one of the least-funded crises globally. Amid this chaos, our partners @christianaiduk.bsky.social, Haiti Survie and KORAL are doing all they can to support the population, with limited resources.
Last Friday’s coalition agreement by @d66.nl, VVD, CDA highlights ODA and global health, but the need for strong leadership remains.
This video revisits why #GlobalHealth underpins stability, security and prosperity, in the Netherlands and beyond.
▶️ Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Xc...
Volle kracht vooruit voor vrouwenrechten!
Veiligheid, gelijke vertegenwoordiging en structurele financiering zijn geen luxe, maar randvoorwaarden voor een rechtvaardige samenleving.
Daarom ondersteunen wij deze oproep van @genderplatform.bsky.social.
What if gender equality work keeps failing because we leave men and boys out of the conversation?
This question sits at the heart of our position paper, Rewriting the Script: Positive Masculinities for Peace, Health, and Equality.
Years of drought and degraded soils made farming in Ethiopia’s Argoba District increasingly unreliable. Conflict disrupted markets and livelihoods, leaving migration as the only option for many. Cordaid Ethiopia’s Food Security and Resilience Building project is offering a viable alternative.
What does 10 years of sustained investment look like for aquaculture in Mali?
🐟 50+ hatcheries
🌱 8 million fingerlings/year
👩🏾🌾 More opportunities for youth and women
🏗️ A stronger, local value chain
This documentary shows how we turned aquaculture into a viable, sustainable livelihood across Mali.
Obstetric fistula is preventable and treatable, yet an estimated 60,000 women in South Sudan live with it, often for years, in silence.
A renewed national effort is expanding access to surgery and care in some of the country’s most underserved regions, restoring health, dignity and livelihoods.
Maak #geengeheim van mijn medicijn.
Prijzen van nieuwe medicijnen zijn vaak extreem hoog, zonder dat duidelijk is waarom.
Ben jij ook voor transparantie in de farmaceutische sector?
✍️ Onderteken net als wij de open brief aan de regering en Tweede Kamer: www.wemos.org/geengeheim
What happens when drought wipes out a pastoralist economy? In Kenya, women rebuilt their livelihoods through an often-overlooked resource: crickets.
🦗 Income
🦗 Nutrition
🦗 Climate resilience
🦗 Local ownership
A powerful example of how food systems can adapt when communities lead the change.
Winter is worsening the humanitarian crisis in #Ukraine.
Millions face blackouts, freezing temperatures, and displacement.
The UN’s 2026 Response Plan aims to support 4.1 million people. #Caritas Ukraine volunteers are delivering #humanitarian assistance, even near the front lines.
Climate shocks are making traditional farming impossible for many smallholders in East Africa.
In #Rwanda, community cooperatives are offering an alternative: green loans for irrigation, clean cooking stoves, and climate-resilient livelihoods.
Every two minutes, somewhere in the world, a woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth.
In the Netherlands, fewer than 5 mothers die per 100,000 births. In South Sudan, it’s around 700.
These deaths are preventable.
Watch and share our new video explainer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aefK... (EN)