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Burgers, with a side of empowerment: Elisa Alvarado, fast food entrepreneur
Elisa “Ely” Alvarado started her fast-food business with just 1,000 lempiras ($40), in a tent on a vacant lot. Here, on a neighborhood street in the town of Villanueva, Honduras, just south of San Pedro Sula, the country’s financial capital and second-largest city, she began selling baleadas, a traditional Honduran handheld food, to passerby.
Read MoreAzhar’s story: “For a 12-year-old girl, I felt my future was lost.”
Azhar was born in Syria – a place she remembers as having “green fields and great people” -- but after she turned seven, Azhar began having trouble. She developed a fear of the near-constant military planes that flew over her neighborhood, and the local militant groups began imposing “strict restrictions, especially in the war area.” One day, Azhar found her neighbors, covered in blood, dead fro
Read MoreHonduras: fishing for a brighter future, overcoming adversity along the way
“Doors are closed to us. We are seen as weak. We are seen as incapable. Society itself has taken care of giving women that reputation, but I think that this should be left in the past, because women have a lot of strength spiritually.”
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CARE Guatemala Promotes Masculinity Over Machismo in Social Media Campaign
Every day, 187 women in Guatemala report being victims of violence, generally caused by men. To shift norms and attitudes around long-standing toxic machismo culture and widespread violence against women, CARE Guatemala, in partnership with Meta, ran a social and behavior change communication campaign in 2022.
Read MoreWhen the earthquake hit: “Everything is shaking, people are screaming. Outside it is cold and dark.”
Ayham Taha, 33, is a technical advisor for CARE Global on humanitarian food security and livelihoods and works on several projects in Türkiye and Northern Syria. He and his wife are Syrian and have been working in humanitarian aid since the conflict in Syria started. His experiences in the wake of the earthquakes of February 6 are worse than anything he has ever seen. This is how Ayham recounts th
Read MoreCARE Ecuador Addresses Violence Against Domestic Workers Through Ad Campaign
To shift norms and attitudes surrounding the widespread violence against women and girls among domestic workers, CARE Ecuador, in partnership with Meta, ran a social and behavior change communication campaign from October to November of 2022.
Read MoreTurkey and Syria: “The situation before the earthquake was dire, catastrophic – and now it is even more so”
Sherine Ibrahim and Ayham Taha have been trying to describe what life has been like in Turkey and Syria since the deadly earthquakes struck the region early Monday morning. But it's hard. “No matter how much I try to describe it,” Taha said to CNN’s Julia Chatterly, “it is still [nothing] compared to what it is on the ground.”
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