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Funding cuts close the last door to healthcare in frontline Ukraine
By Sarah Easter and Becca Mountain • November 20, 2025
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2025 Pakistan monsoon floods impact millions: CARE launches emergency response
Since June 26, 2025, devastating monsoon floods have claimed over 1,000 lives across Pakistan and caused massive destruction to homes, roads, and critical infrastructure. In response, CARE Pakistan and its partners are delivering urgent assistance, including shelter kits, hygiene kits, food packs, and non-food items, alongside cash support assessments to help affected families meet their immediate
Read MoreCARE wants to know: Who cares?
Who cares? It's a question answered by people like Maria, a mother fleeing war and protecting her child in Sudan; and Hiba, a Syrian entrepreneur rebuilding her life after an earthquake, and Luis, a fisherman rescuing neighbors from a flood in Mozambique. Their stories prove that caring isn't just an idea — it's an action. Join CARE in supporting communities around the world.
Read MoreWho cares about survival? People like Maria do — fierce, determined, and full of courage.
Maria, 20, fled Sudan with her nine-month-old daughter, Imtias. For days, she walked and ran through bombs, fires, and gunshots, carrying her baby whenever she could. A thin cloth — her only possession — held Imtias tightly on Maria’s weakened body.
Read MoreWho cares about recovery? People like Hiba do — resilient, determined, and full of hope.
Hiba, 30, ran a small dairy and cheese farm outside Idlib, northwestern Syria. Since 2020, her work has provided modest income for herself and her four children. As a single mother, she often struggled with business losses she couldn't explain, but she kept going. Then, in February 2023, devastating earthquakes struck.
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Afghanistan earthquake 2025: What CARE is doing
A devastating 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan on August 31, 2025, killing at least 1,411 people and destroying over 5,400 homes. CARE is responding with emergency assistance including food, shelter, medical supplies, and protection programs for women and girls in the affected provinces of Nangarhar, Kunar, Laghman, and Nuristan.
Read MoreRohingya in Cox’s Bazar: Resilience amid shrinking aid in the world’s largest refugee camp
Deepmala Mahla, CARE’s chief humanitarian officer, recently traveled to Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh — home to the world’s largest refugee camp sheltering nearly a million Rohingya people. On the eighth anniversary of the Rohingya crisis, she shares their stories of resilience and loss, along with the urgent need for global solidarity in one of the most complex humanitarian crises of our time.
Read MoreThe human cost of funding cuts: Lives and futures at risk in Somalia
Somalia is plunged into a devastating humanitarian catastrophe as critical funding cuts slash food aid and close health clinics. Families are starving, children are wasting away from severe malnutrition, and mothers are forced to walk miles just to find water. Without urgent support, millions face death, displacement, and shattered futures.
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