News type: Press release

 

HAITI Resettlement of quake victims must ensure human dignity

PORT-AU-PRINCE (April 10, 2010) – International aid agencies Oxfam, World Vision and CARE urge the Haitian government to ensure new camps are ready to receive earthquake victims before more evacuations take place. The call comes as agencies rush to prepare a new site in time for people who must be relocated due to the high risks of mudslides and other disasters in their current locations when the rainy seasons begins.

 

HAITI Quick work on water has prevented disease after quake

PORT-AU-PRINCE (March 22, 2010) – Outbreaks of water-borne disease in Haiti’s earthquake-affected zone have been largely avoided, thanks to quick intervention by the government and humanitarian agencies including CARE. But efforts to ensure sanitation and safe drinking water remain urgently important as the country faces the onset of the annual rainy season.

 

CHILE earthquake there are still cries for help

SANTIAGO DE CHILE (March 11, 2010) – The international humanitarian organization CARE has distributed food, hygiene items and tarps for 200 families in Chile. “In the village of Sauzal, near the city of Cauquenes, there are still cries for help”, says Axel Rottländer, CARE’s deputy emergency coordinator

 

CHILE Everything is needed

CHILE (March 5, 2010) – „Six days after the earthquake struck Chile, there are still some regions that have not received aid yet“, says Axel Rottländer, deputy emergency coordinator of CARE Deutschland-Luxemburg.

 

PALESTINE role of women is changing

Palestinian women have been forced to find work to prevent family destitution at the same time as protecting masculine self esteem to preserve family harmony. These are the finding of a World Bank report prepared in collaboration with CARE International and the Women’s Studies Institute (WSI) at Birzeit University.

 

HAITI Race to the rainy season

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (February 11, 2010) – One month after the catastrophic quake that levelled most of Port-au-Prince, CARE and other aid agencies are in a race against time to get people waterproof shelter and decent sanitation before the rainy season hits at the end of March. Most people crammed into overcrowded temporary camps are huddled under bed sheets strung between poles or sticks – hardly enough to block out the sun, but useless against the torrential downpours of Haiti’s rainy season.