Crisis Response
When 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 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.”
Read More“Trying to find survivors under the rubble.” The day after Turkey and Syria’s deadly earthquakes
In Gaziantep, Turkey, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck early Monday morning. On the day after the disaster, communities are trying to dig out and recover. Government officials have already declared it to be the deadliest earthquake to hit the country in two decades, with a tremor as strong as the 1939 earthquake, which killed an estimated 30,000 people.
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“We are all in shock”: CARE begins recovery work after deadly earthquake impacting Turkey and Syria
In Gaziantep, Turkey, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck early Monday morning. Government officials have already declared it to be the deadliest earthquake to hit the country in two decades, with a tremor as strong as the 1939 earthquake, which killed an estimated 30,000 people.
Read MoreA year of war in Ukraine: Masha’s story
Last February, Masha, her parents, and her older sister became a small portion of what would become the nearly 6.5 million people internally displaced since the start of the war in Ukraine. The family began a four-day journey from their hometown in the Donbas region to the train station in Lviv, where they hoped they’d be able to travel to safety somewhere further from the fighting.
Read MoreWinter and war at Ukraine’s edge
At the beginning of the war, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees came through Przemyśl, a small historic city about two hours drive from Przewodów, near the Ukrainian border. Ukrainian House, a cultural center in the middle of town, quickly responded, turning their facility into a temporary accommodation center by rolling bunks into their theater, constructing new bathrooms, and converting
Read MoreCARE/UPS partnership delivers new system to speed aid in emergencies
The global supply chain is a necessity not just for consumer goods, but for humanitarian aid. For food, clean water, and hygiene kits to be delivered to those in need, when they need it, the supply chain has to be in good working order – even in parts of the world that may be difficult to access.
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