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Learn how to get involvedLast February, Masha, her parents, and her older sister became a small portion of what would become the nearly 6.5 million people internally displaced since the start of the war in Ukraine. The family began a four-day journey from their hometown in the Donbas region to the train station in Lviv, where they hoped they’d be able to travel to safety somewhere further from the fighting.
Read MoreMany women are at risk of violence in Rwanda. According a recent government study, 1 in 3 married women reported experiencing physical violence from their partners, and 46% of married women have experienced spousal physical, sexual, or emotional violence. But all of that can be improved when couples join Indashyikirwa – which means ‘agents of change’ in Kinyarwanda– and examine the dynamics in the
Read MoreBarbara Sika Larweh is a volunteer community organizer in the cocoa-growing region of Ghana who has persuaded many women in several villages to grow their own food and join their local village savings and loan program.
Read MoreThis week, Americans are heading into Thanksgiving, a holiday where most of us eat way too much and celebrate the gifts we have in life, our families and friends, and the things we appreciate. It’s an important moment to remember that millions of people around the world are struggling to meet the very basics—including having enough food to eat at all. One of the things I am thankful for every year
Read MoreCARE is there delivering lifesaving aid and defending the lives of families in crisis.
CARE Uganda has started a solar initiative to help address the global and local challenges of the climate crisis. With funds from Innovation Norway and Novo Nordisk, CARE has established solar-powered kitchens in community centers in southwestern Uganda, as well as in the Kinakyeitaka Primary school where students study new ways of tackling the challenges of the climate crisis.
Read MoreClimate change is here now in Ethiopia. Sudden heavy rains have caused flooding and landslides around the capital city of Addis Ababa, while in the nearby Amhara region, drought has forced women and girls to walk for hours to find water. Already by 2017, roughly 23 million people here had insufficient income to meet their food needs, and by 2021 an estimated twenty percent of the country’s 120 mil
Read MoreAt the beginning of the war, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees came through Przemyśl, a small historic city about two hours drive from Przewodów, near the Ukrainian border. Ukrainian House, a cultural center in the middle of town, quickly responded, turning their facility into a temporary accommodation center by rolling bunks into their theater, constructing new bathrooms, and converting
Read MoreThe global supply chain is a necessity not just for consumer goods, but for humanitarian aid. For food, clean water, and hygiene kits to be delivered to those in need, when they need it, the supply chain has to be in good working order – even in parts of the world that may be difficult to access.
Read MoreLooking like a cross between harp and guitar, the bandura is an instrument steeped in Ukrainian history and culture. For Diana Polishchuk, a Ukrainian refugee living in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki just upriver from Warsaw, Poland, playing bandura has become a way to process her feelings and her turbulent recent history, while giving others a poignant reminder of home.
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