- Crisis Response
Wafaa’s Story: “In my house, there is nothing at all”
Wafaa, a 41-year-old single mom, lives in an apartment in Lebanon with her three boys. They are at the center of many crises. The financial crisis came first. It began in 2019, and since then Lebanon’s currency has lost 99% of its value, and more than two-thirds of the population lives below the poverty line.This crisis — and then the 2020 port explosion — has only fueled an already dire hunger c
Read MoreBangladesh: In the world’s largest refugee camp, a “place of peace.”
Thousands of girls like Sufaira live in the Rohingya refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The camps are not a healthy place for girls to grow up, which is why CARE Bangladesh runs 12 Women and Girls Safe Spaces (WGSS), locally known as the “Shantikhana,” (literally: “place of peace”) across eight camps, the largest temporary home of refugees in the world.
Read MoreWar in the Breadbasket of Europe: Sergij’s Story
Sergij Koziura is a Ukrainian farmer in “the breadbasket of Europe.” Last year, the country exported six to seven million tons of grain per month, but since the war began, nearly 22 million tons of grain have been trapped inside the country, unable to get to port. The UN estimates that these disruptions have already driven 70 million people around the world closer to starvation. Sergij is at the c
Read MoreUkraine: How to Stay Human in the War
After the war erupted in Ukraine last spring, Tetyana and her 12-year-old daughter slept underground for over two months, hoping they would not be forced to leave their home. Tamara, a psychologist working with a local organization supported by CARE, has been helping Tetyana and others like her to talk through their experiences of war.
Read MoreBeyond data: the power of listening
We deal with huge numbers all day in humanitarian and development work. Behind every single one of those numbers is a human—millions of humans—living a life and trying to deal with the challenges they are facing. They matter beyond the insight that mining their data can provide.
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Floods in Pakistan: “This is What the Climate Crisis Looks Like”
Since catastrophic monsoon rains submerged wide swaths of the country in flood waters, thousands of Pakistani families have been forced to flee, and more than 1,500 people have died. Experts say the situation for communities in flood-affected areas is getting worse by the day, particularly for women and girls like Mai and Zarbano, featured here. CARE officials are concerned the continuing damage w
Read MoreBangladesh: “Girls are fighting child marriage. And they’re winning.”
Anannya dreamed of playing soccer, but as a girl in a small village in Bangladesh, she says it was “unthinkable.” CARE’s Tipping Point program has worked to support girls and their families in areas like Pirgacha, Bangladesh as they push back against harmful social norms that push adolescent girls into child marriage.
Read MoreUkraine: Meet the Volunteers Risking Their Lives to Deliver Aid to People in Need
Maria works as a project manager in Lviv, 40 miles from the Polish border. But she also risks her life to deliver daily necessities to Ukrainians more heavily hit by fighting. Together with 14 other drivers, the students deliver food, clean drinking water, medicine, hygiene products, and other daily necessities to people in need.
Read More‘It is beautiful work.’ The only doctor in a remote Sudanese village tells her story
Dr. Gisma Awad Hassan Rwah, the only doctor near the Sudanese village of Gorlangbang, navigates the country’s ongoing military conflict in order to treat patients in a mountain-top clinic without electricity and accessible only by donkey.
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