As a prolonged drought ravages communities in the Horn of Africa, destroying crops, killing livestock and leaving more than 20 million people in need of emergency food assistance, CARE is warning that the international community must act now or risk a full-blown humanitarian disaster.
Zimbabwe experienced the worst that it ever had cholera outbreak between August 2008 and June 2009, with over 100,000 reported cases and 4,287 deaths recorded with an average fatality rate of 4.3 percent. During the last outbreak cholera was also spread at health centers because of the deterioration in the facilities.
On the inaugural World Humanitarian Day tomorrow, CARE International pays tribute to humanitarian workers for their ongoing commitment to helping the poorest and most vulnerable around the world.
As the UN Security Council prepares to discuss tomorrow how to move forward on its commitment to end sexual and gender-based violence, CARE International outlined 15 immediate, concrete steps the UN must take to help end the abomination of rape in armed conflict.
A group of nine major international aid agencies (ActionAid, CAFOD/Caritas, Care, Concern Worldwide, Islamic Relief, Merlin, Oxfam, Save the Children, World Vision) said today that their aid effort of reaching over 1 million victims of the fighting in Swat valley of Pakistan was under threat due to a lack of funds.
Unless aggressive measures are taken to halt global warming, the consequences for human migration and displacement could reach a scope and scale that vastly exceed anything that has occurred before. Climate
This lush, green village should be a bucolic place. But it is full to bursting with some 30,000 people who have fled their homes.
More than 500,000 people have been displaced and at least 100 killed after Cyclone Aila slammed into Bangladesh and Eastern India yesterday, and information is still coming in of extensive damage in remote, low-lying islands.
Thousands of lives are at risk in Sri Lanka because aid to internally displaced people is being restricted by difficulties in securing access for staff and vehicles, 14 major international aid agencies said today.
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.
