When COVID-19 emerged in early 2020 it brought with it significant new challenges to the provision of health care in poor, vulnerable communities in East Africa. At a time when unknowns were the norm and significant barriers were going up in the delivery of urgently needed health interventions, what enabled Missionary Development organisations to be …
December 2021 Misean Cara Project Officer for Health, Niamh Caffrey, says it’s time to stop the stalling on vaccine equity for developing nations—for the good of us all—with new variants resulting from a lack of global herd immunity. The emergence of the Omicron COVID-19 variant last month has proved, beyond doubt, that no one is …
“Covid hits Irish Missionaries hard, but still much to offer” The Irish Catholic July 15, 2021 Misean Cara CEO, John Moffett, was recently interviewed by journalist Ruadhán Jones for an article that appeared in July 15th edition of The Irish Catholic. The article highlights the specific challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to missionaries …
Misean Cara has joined with a group of Irish FBOs and NGOs in actively promoting the People’s Vaccine Campaign for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, treatments and related technology. Along with several other organisations including Oxfam, AMRI, Christian Aid and ActionAid, we are lending our voice to the call for vaccine equity and have added …
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