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A kit, a clinic, a chance: For survivors of sexual violence in DRC, safety depends on dwindling supplies
By Sarah Easter and Becca Mountain • December 2, 2025
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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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Bangladesh: The poorer the mother, the less likely she has access to skilled delivery support
Most of the complications from which women die are preventable. Access to maternal care and skilled birth attendants is believed to be of utmost importance in reducing maternal mortality — yet almost half of all births in Bangladesh still take place at home without the help of skilled birth attendants.
Read More“I know how difficult it is to look for shelter”: A day in the life of a humanitarian shelter advisor in Ukraine
Omer is a Shelter Advisor for CARE Ukraine, offering technical advice and expertise in relation to the shelter response in conflict-affected parts of the country. Here, he talks to CARE about his motivation for working in the shelter sector, his work in Ukraine and why dignified shelter is more important now than ever.
Read MoreCARE Nigeria explores digital health campaigning through WhatsApp
Building on pre-existing efforts to engage communities and increase their access to vaccination services, CARE Nigeria developed and launched a chatbot on WhatsApp in 2022 that disseminated early childhood immunization information in an engaging, yet easy-to-use format.
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Cholera on the Euphrates: water scarcity and public health in northern Syria
The Euphrates was pivotal in the development of all Mesopotamian civilizations. Now, the ancient river is a source for a devastating cholera outbreak. CARE has deployed rapid response teams to ensure the early detection of cases and timely referrals to health partners for treatment.
Read MoreCARE in Malawi: “We don’t wait until a cyclone hits to start taking action”
According to the UN, tropical cyclone Freddy displaced nearly 660,000 people in southern Malawi and killed 676. Another 537 are still missing. We spoke with Laura Criado Lafuente, Deputy Country Director of Programs for CARE Malawi, on how the organization is delivering aid amid this emergency and how women and girls are particularly impacted.
Read MoreCARE’s water and sanitation interventions improve quality of life in Southwest Yemen
Since the project's launching in 2019 with USAID support, CARE has rehabilitated 18 water and eight sewage systems across five districts under Taiz, one of the 14 governorates where CARE works. And so now over 135,000 people are benefitting from this project. For decades, the region has faced a dwindling water supply, and challenges from the area's remarkably diverse geography -- with a hot, hu
Read MoreBecoming a better partner: how CARE is turning pledges into reality
CARE has made some big commitments to localization, decolonization, and anti-racism. We’ve signed the Pledge for Change to drive more decision making and resources to the places that are most affected by crisis and poverty. We believe in being locally led, and globally connected, which implies changing the way we think about partnerships.
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