This week marks eight decades of the humanitarian organization CARE standing with families facing crisis around the world. On November 27, 1945, 22 American civic, relief and other charitable organizations came together in New York City to launch the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe, the organization that would ultimately become the Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere –
Read MoreAs Ukraine heads into its fourth wartime winter, escalating strikes on power and transport systems are putting millions at risk of freezing temperatures and prolonged blackouts. CARE warns that immediate action is needed to protect civilians from attacks and frigid temperatures.
Read MoreSuper typhoon Fund-Wong is yet another disaster to hit the Philippines, the 21st calamity this year alone. Reiza Dejito, CARE's Country Director in the Philippines, spoke to CBC Canada about the impact of this super typhoon on a population that is still reeling from multiple emergencies.
Read MoreCARE Philippines has activated its emergency teams in Cebu, Negros Occidental, and Eastern Samar to help communities affected by Typhoon Tino (Kalmaegi). This last storm has hit areas that were already coping with the aftermath of other recent emergencies.
Read MoreCARE is there delivering lifesaving aid and defending the lives of families in crisis.
The new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Partnership (IPC) report released yesterday confirms that famine is persisting in Sudan, with a high risk of it further expanding in the weeks to come.
Read MoreJonathan Arogeti, CARE's Caribbean Humanitarian Response Lead, spoke to WABE - NPR's affiliate in the Atlanta region - about relief efforts in Jamaica and other countries impacted by Hurricane Melissa. Arogeti explained how CARE in Jamaica is responding to the devastating impact of the hurricane in partnership with the Jamaica Network of Rural Women Producers (JNRWP).
Read MoreHurricane Melissa, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in recorded history, has left a trail of devastation across the Caribbean. It made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday as a Category 5 storm, before tearing through Cuba (as a major hurricane) on Wednesday.
Read MoreIn the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm that made landfall in Jamaica on October 28, CARE's Country Director in Haiti Martin Dickler, spoke to ABC News about the hurricane's impact on the island, a nation that is already experiencing multiple crises resulting in acute hunger, displacement, and insecurity.
Read MoreHurricane Melissa has brought widespread havoc to the Caribbean and caused at least 25 deaths in Haiti, and 8 in Jamaica. CARE is among the aid agencies mentioned by USA Today that is responding to this Category 5 hurricane.
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