Ahead of World Refugee Day on June 20, CARE’s Global Advocate shares her personal story of becoming a refugee at 16 to draw attention to the particular threat COVID-19 poses to the most vulnerable, including refugees and the forcibly displaced.
COVID-19 poses an unprecedented threat to the world’s most vulnerable people.
By
Aichatou Mounkaila, as told to Michael de Vulpillieres
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December 4, 2023
Aichatou Mounkaila has spent the last 20 years of her life supporting and empowering women and girls in Niger. She recently spoke at the United Nations. Read More
In East Darfur, women and girls still largely earn a living through agriculture, working hard on land owned by their families to produce food and cash crops. Yet they often see few of the proceeds when crops are sold. Their agricultural fortunes have begun to change through a CARE Sudan program which helps women establish vegetable gardens for both food and income, and has also assisted herders with veterinary care. Read More
People in the war-stricken Gaza Strip experienced a weekend of relative calm after a four-day pause in the fighting, later extended to six days, went into effect early Friday, Nov. 24. After 50 days of constant bombardment, this provides temporary relief from the violence and destruction since early October. Read More
