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Ukraine: Helping women navigate unfamiliar systems to get help
As Ukrainian refugees arrive and find themselves in a completely new place, they can find foreign health and legal systems and hard to navigate. In Poland, CARE has partnered with local organizations primarily specializing in helping women with their specific needs.
Read MoreDispatches from Lviv: Displaced women share their stories
More than 6.8 million people in Ukraine have fled to neighboring countries since the conflict began, and more than 8 million have been internally displaced. All these people, most of them women and children, need support and protection.
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CARE is there delivering lifesaving aid and defending the lives of families in crisis.
Women, girls in Afghanistan hope for the return of education for all
In Afghanistan, most schools closed as the country’s government changed in August 2021. Over the following months they gradually opened for boys in all grades, but girls above grade six have been home for nearly 10 months.
Read MoreRefugees in Jordan feeling the effects of Ukraine conflict
Ghena and Hanan currently have to spend the equivalent of 11 euros to buy three liters of cooking oil -- three euros more than six weeks ago. The effects of the war in Ukraine have now also reached Jordan. This means only one thing after more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic: further fear for their income.
Read MoreCARE provides lifesaving mobile healthcare to vulnerable Afghans
“I am eight months pregnant, but this is the first time I'm seeing a doctor,” says Belqees*, 28, at a CARE mobile health clinic in Balkh province, northern Afghanistan. Like many women, Belqees either lives too far from a public hospital or cannot afford the transportation costs, and the cost of attending a private clinic puts that option out of reach
Read MoreUkraine: no matter what happens, Lyudmyla stays to help
A relentless war has been raging in Ukraine since February. More than five million people have fled across the border to neighboring countries. But many people stay behind because they cannot leave: the elderly, people with disabilities, the sick, or those too weak to take on the journey. And people like Lyudmyla Yankina remain.
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