Approximately 230,000 people have now been officially registered for assistance in northern Yemen, and up to 800,000 have been indirectly affected by the fighting. Most of the displaced are not living in camps but are scattered among host communities, putting additional strain on poor families, or stranded in family groups in isolated rural settings.
GENEVA (January 24, 2010 ) – As foreign ministers gather for a donor conference on aid for Haiti this Monday, CARE International calls for balanced, long- term funding that will meet the country’s emergency and rehabilitation needs and debt relief to ensure its recovery from the earthquake.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (January 18, 2010) – CARE’s disaster-response teams find themselves in a race against time in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, coaching survivors how to purify contaminated water and preparing hygiene kits to help prevent a secondary crisis: the outbreak of disease.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (January 16, 2010) – CARE warns that pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers and young children are at greatest risk after Tuesday’s devastating quake that devastated the capital city of Port-au-Prince left nearly three million people in need of assistance. There is an estimated 37,000 pregnant women among the affected population in urgent need of safe drinking water, food and medical care. Half of Haiti’s population is younger than 18 years old.
GONAIVES, HAITI (January 14, 2010) – CARE has launched a global appeal for US$10 million to help the survivors of Tuesday’s devastating quake in Port-au-Prince. The exact death toll is unknown, but aid groups are estimating that three million people are affected and in need of assistance – one-third of Haiti’s population.
HAITI (January 13, 2010) – A massive earthquake has hit Haiti. Help is urgently needed for the hundreds of thousands likely affected by the disaster, especially for the most vulnerable - women and girls.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (January 13, 2010) – CARE is deploying additional emergency team members to the devastated city of Port-au-Prince in Haiti, where the worst earthquake in 200 years destroyed houses and left thousands homeless. While the exact death toll from the 7.0-magnitude quake is not yet known, it is expected to be catastrophic.
World leaders have failed to agree on an ambitious, fair and binding climate deal in Copenhagen.
As the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen enter into their last day, CARE International warns that the agreement on REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation)
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