Emergency Response

The most popular CARE News stories of 2023

By CARE Staff • December 29, 2023

Below are the stories from 2023 you liked the most. They were created by CARE’s worldwide network of local writers, photographers, and filmmakers, and they helped reflect a slice of our global work.

7 things you should know about the Gaza crisis right now

By CARE Staff • December 20, 2023

Gaza is suffering from intense violence, displacement, infrastructure destruction, and severe health challenges. What you need to know & how you can help.

A letter from a mother in Gaza

By Alaa, with Johanna Wynn Mitschlerlich • December 11, 2023

When the war started on October 7, I was getting my children ready to go to the kindergarten and school. I had just put their little jackets and shoes on when we heard the first airstrikes hit. We only had minutes to pack our things.

Where climate loss and damage means life and death

By Travis Nichols & CARE staff • December 11, 2023

At COP28, world leaders are talking about climate "loss and damage" while the people of Somalia are living it.

Once-in-a-century floods are ravaging Somalia. Here’s how you can help.

By Travis Nichols • November 10, 2023

After enduring drought and climate effects for years, Somalia now faces a once-in-a-century flood disaster, with over a million affected.

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Earthquake in Nepal: The latest update and how you can help

By CARE staff • November 7, 2023

A magnitude-6.4 earthquake struck western Nepal on Nov. 3, at around 11:47 pm local time, killing at least 150 people, and injuring several hundred more, the country’s most devastating earthquake since 2015.

Lebanon: When hard work is not enough

By Mary Kate Wilson • June 13, 2023

Taha and his family have moved in with his 67-year-old mother after he lost his job and could no longer afford to pay rent for his own home. He works two or three days a week as a taxi driver, but the cost to rent the car often exceeds the money he makes driving it.

“I know how difficult it is to look for shelter”: A day in the life of a humanitarian shelter advisor in Ukraine

By Sarah Easter • May 14, 2023

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.

When the earthquake hit: “Everything is shaking, people are screaming. Outside it is cold and dark.”

By Ayham Taha • February 21, 2023

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

“Nobody dares to go home.” Four days after the deadly earthquakes in Turkey and Syria

By CARE Staff • February 9, 2023

Hundreds of aftershocks have continued to affect the region throughout the week, and government officials have estimated as of Thursday morning that the combined death toll is near 20,000.

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