After 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
Read MoreAnannya dreamed of playing soccer, but as a girl in a small village in Bangladesh, she says it was “unthinkable.” CARE’s Tipping Point program has worked to support girls and their families in areas like Pirgacha, Bangladesh as they push back against harmful social norms that push adolescent girls into child marriage.
Read MoreCARE is there delivering lifesaving aid and defending the lives of families in crisis.
Maria works as a project manager in Lviv, 40 miles from the Polish border. But she also risks her life to deliver daily necessities to Ukrainians more heavily hit by fighting. Together with 14 other drivers, the students deliver food, clean drinking water, medicine, hygiene products, and other daily necessities to people in need.
Read MoreDr. Gisma Awad Hassan Rwah, the only doctor near the Sudanese village of Gorlangbang, navigates the country’s ongoing military conflict in order to treat patients in a mountain-top clinic without electricity and accessible only by donkey.
Read MoreIn a good rainy season, Asha Mohammed, 43, can harvest her tomatoes every three weeks and sell 18 kg for around 12 euros. But for the second year in a row, it has rained far too little in Somalia. Now, Asha has to buy tomatoes herself from the next town, and her village doesn't have enough water in its tanks even to drink. The villagers must rely on expensive water trucks from the nearest town.
Read MoreAlone in a dark room. Air alarms and explosions outside. This is the story of 36-year-old Tatiana Yevhenivina, who gave birth to her ninth child while fleeing the war in Ukraine. Just as approximately 80,000 other women who gave birth there in the first three month since the escalation of war, Tatiana was not able to receive maternal health care or deliver her baby safe from fighting.
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