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Learn about usClimate change is here now in Ethiopia. Sudden heavy rains have caused flooding and landslides around the capital city of Addis Ababa, while in the nearby Amhara region, drought has forced women and girls to walk for hours to find water. Already by 2017, roughly 23 million people here had insufficient income to meet their food needs, and by 2021 an estimated twenty percent of the country’s 120 mil
Read MoreAt the beginning of the war, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees came through Przemyśl, a small historic city about two hours drive from Przewodów, near the Ukrainian border. Ukrainian House, a cultural center in the middle of town, quickly responded, turning their facility into a temporary accommodation center by rolling bunks into their theater, constructing new bathrooms, and converting
Read MoreThe global supply chain is a necessity not just for consumer goods, but for humanitarian aid. For food, clean water, and hygiene kits to be delivered to those in need, when they need it, the supply chain has to be in good working order – even in parts of the world that may be difficult to access.
Read MoreLooking like a cross between harp and guitar, the bandura is an instrument steeped in Ukrainian history and culture. For Diana Polishchuk, a Ukrainian refugee living in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki just upriver from Warsaw, Poland, playing bandura has become a way to process her feelings and her turbulent recent history, while giving others a poignant reminder of home.
Read MoreWafaa, a 41-year-old single mom, lives in an apartment in Lebanon with her three boys. They are at the center of many crises. The financial crisis came first. It began in 2019, and since then Lebanon’s currency has lost 99% of its value, and more than two-thirds of the population lives below the poverty line.This crisis — and then the 2020 port explosion — has only fueled an already dire hunger c
Read MoreCARE is there delivering lifesaving aid and defending the lives of families in crisis.
Thousands of girls like Sufaira live in the Rohingya refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The camps are not a healthy place for girls to grow up, which is why CARE Bangladesh runs 12 Women and Girls Safe Spaces (WGSS), locally known as the “Shantikhana,” (literally: “place of peace”) across eight camps, the largest temporary home of refugees in the world.
Read MoreSergij Koziura is a Ukrainian farmer in “the breadbasket of Europe.” Last year, the country exported six to seven million tons of grain per month, but since the war began, nearly 22 million tons of grain have been trapped inside the country, unable to get to port. The UN estimates that these disruptions have already driven 70 million people around the world closer to starvation. Sergij is at the c
Read MoreAfter the war erupted in Ukraine last spring, Tetyana and her 12-year-old daughter slept underground for over two months, hoping they would not be forced to leave their home. Tamara, a psychologist working with a local organization supported by CARE, has been helping Tetyana and others like her to talk through their experiences of war.
Read MoreWe deal with huge numbers all day in humanitarian and development work. Behind every single one of those numbers is a human—millions of humans—living a life and trying to deal with the challenges they are facing. They matter beyond the insight that mining their data can provide.
Read MoreSince catastrophic monsoon rains submerged wide swaths of the country in flood waters, thousands of Pakistani families have been forced to flee, and more than 1,500 people have died. Experts say the situation for communities in flood-affected areas is getting worse by the day, particularly for women and girls like Mai and Zarbano, featured here. CARE officials are concerned the continuing damage w
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