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GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (September 30, 2009) – CARE’s emergency team in Indonesia is on standby after a massive quake struck the coast of Sumatra earlier today. The quake, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale, struck near the city of Padang, the same area that…
CARE emergency teams in Vietnam and Laos are responding after Typhoon Ketsana slammed into mainland Asia yesterday, the worst typhoon the region has seen in decades. CARE’s emergency response continues in the Philippines, helping some of the nearly two…
CARE emergency teams in Vietnam and Laos are preparing to respond as the deadly Typhoon Ketsana continues its path towards mainland Asia. The typhoon, which killed 140 people and left more than 150,000 homeless in the Philippines over the weekend, is…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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