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GENEVA (November 3, 2011) – A tropical depression brought heavy rains to Central America destroying houses, damaging infrastructure and devastating large swaths of farmland.

As the latest rainy season in Niger has been erratic, CARE International warns that the country is at risk of facing another food crisis in the coming months.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (October 24, 2011) – Since the cholera outbreak began in October 2010, CARE has been implementing its response program in some of the country’s most-affected regions; namely Grande-Anse, Upper Artibonite and Northwest departments.

CARE calls for more funding to support women with essential health care and relief items/ “Babies cannot wait for funding to be born”

On this World Food Day, rain may be falling in some parts of the Horn of Africa. But there is no end in sight to the crisis that has left tens of thousands of people dead and hundreds of thousands on the edge of starvation.

CARE emergency teams in Vietnam and Cambodia are responding to South-East Asia’s worst flooding in a decade which has left more than 500 dead and more than a million people homeless.

DADAAB, Kenya (September 13, 2011) – In the heartache and confusion that accompany the flight from drought and hunger, refugees from Somalia can now turn to a source of comfort with a familiar face: fellow refugees who have been specially trained to help…

GENEVA (September 12, 2011) – CARE International, one of the world’s largest humanitarian relief and development organizations, has elected Ralph Martens to chair its international board of directors.

A coalition of 38 aid agencies today called on donors not to squander the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of the people of South Sudan, the world’s newest nation. The call came as new violence in Jonglei state increased emergency needs.