Children
Deepening starvation in Sudan
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Partnership (IPC) alerts today of famine-level acute malnutrition detected in two more localities in North Darfur, Um Baru and Kernoi. Just three months ago, the IPC warned that famine conditions would further spread.
Read MoreCNN: Starvation in Gaza worsens
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has issued a stark warning at the end of July that the worst-case scenario of famine is now unfolding in the Gaza Strip. CNN interviewed Beckie Ryan, CARE Response Director in Gaza, on starvation at a CARE health clinic.
Read MoreNewsweek: Opinion piece by CARE’s Deepmala Mahla
CARE's Chief Humanitarian Officer Deepmala Mahla published an opinion piece on Newsweek where she discusses how armed conflict and violence fuel hunger and starvation. Everywhere I went, I encountered women and girls. Questions lingered in the air, unspoken but unmistakable: "Are we less than human? Is that why the world has turned away?"
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Agence France Presse: Somali children are dying of hunger
The Agence France Presse mentioned CARE on the number of severely malnourished children under five in Somalia, which has increased to 1.8 million, according to a UN-backed monitoring body report. CARE said that 479,000 of these children are expected to be severely malnourished and at risk of dying without urgent help.
Read MoreGaza: After two months of war, women last to eat and children first to die
Displacement, hunger, lack of medical care and clean water, and the onset of winter are stretching the coping abilities of women and children to the absolute limit, CARE warns on the occasion of the two-month mark of the armed conflict in Gaza.
Read MoreNewsweek: War on Ukraine Children: 142 Dead, 230 Injured, Over 64% Driven From Home
They walk off the bus slowly, tentatively. Young women holding the hands of small children. Grandmothers right behind carrying over-stuffed suitcases—or dragging garbage bags of clothes. All the mothers wear sneakers. There are a handful of old men, hunched over. Quite a few dogs, mostly small ones, none barking. The passengers barely lift up their eyes. Everyone looks beaten down, exhausted. A Po
Read MoreFears for the plight of around 100,000 children living in institutions across Ukraine, unable to escape the conflict
CARE International and its Romanian partners are extremely worried for the 100,000 children currently living in institutions in Ukraine who have been largely forgotten during this crisis and remain trapped inside the country. According to Bogdan Simion, Executive Director of CARE’s partner SERA and President of the Romanian Federation of Child Protection NGOs (FONPC): “These young boys and girls a
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