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PORT-AU-PRINCE (October 22, 2010) – CARE is mobilizing staff and stockpiling supplies in response to a deadly cholera outbreak that health officials fear could spread beyond the Artibonite region of Haiti. More than 138 people have already died, and 1…

Having described the floods as the most debilitating natural disaster in the country’s history, Pakistan’s government has requested international support. The government has suspended expenditures from its already meager development budget, and shifted…

A massive shortfall in relief funds for families devastated by floods in Pakistan is hampering the response to a widening emergency that has left 14 million people in need of urgent assistance.

Humanitarian Group Helps Treat 3,000 Patients in Mobile Clinics

CARE is supporting health teams, mobile clinics and the distribution of emergency supplies in the wake of flooding that has taken hundreds of lives in Pakistan and devastated wide swaths of the country.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (July 9, 2010) – Six months after an earthquake killed more than 220,000 people in Haiti and displaced another 1.5 million, CARE is ramping up efforts to ensure that survivors have a sturdy roof over their heads and a strong foundation to…

Ten leading aid agencies today called for a ‘surge’ in the humanitarian effort to help 10 million people at risk of acute hunger across the Sahel region of West and Central Africa. The centre of the crisis is Niger, where seven million people, almost…

CARE has launched a US $7-million appeal for the emergency response and longer-term recovery. Working closely with the government, U.N. agencies and aid groups, CARE plans to reach approximately 660,000 people in the particularly hard-hit areas of Diffa,…

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…