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Learn about usSuper 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 MoreThe 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 MoreCARE is there delivering lifesaving aid and defending the lives of families in crisis.
Hurricane 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.
Read MoreHurricane Melissa, a Category 5 hurricane and one of the strongest Atlantic storms on record, has made a landfall in Jamaica and is threatening other countries in the Caribbean. CARE is one of the organizations highlighted in TIMEs magazine How to Help list for responding to this humanitarian emergency.
Read MoreJonathan Arogeti, CARE's Emergency Response Lead in the Caribbean, spoke to Accuweather on how CARE and its partners on the ground in Jamaica were preparing ahead of Hurricane Melissa's landfall. CARE has been prepositioning first aid and hygiene supplies; emergency food rations; clean water; water treatment kits; and shelter supplies.
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