Impact stories

'Number seven' stands up from the patterned straw mat, rubs away the folds in her pink dress and approaches the five women that have been elected to run the savings box. She puts this week’s savings amount in a blue plastic bowl before the notes are…

Motaz [name changed*] sits in a circle of Syrian refugees leading a conversation about issues facing the refugees who have fled to Turkey from nearby Kobane in northern Syria. The group are all part of CARE’s new Information Volunteer programme which…

“The leaders of our country can learn a lot from us. Bring them here – we can teach them how to make peace,” a tribal leader told me.

Earthquakes, perhaps more than any other type of disaster, are a shelter disaster. In Nepal this is more the case than any disaster I’ve known – but the effects of the earthquake are far from simple, and the knock-on effects go beyond people just lacking…

Refugee: A person who is outside their home country because they have suffered or feared persecution; or because they are fleeing war. Sadly, as we recognize

Mathura sat on a wooden stool during the ceremony, next to his bride, who was wearing a yellow sari. He’s not sure what they said to each other, if anything.

After years of political instability and months of continuous airstrikes, one would not expect to hear a statement like this from a Yemeni person, but 26-year-old, Hana is boldly speaking on behalf of youth in Yemen eager to be “agents of change”, in a…

In April 2012, Fairouz*, 27, fled her home near Homs in Syria, with her husband and five children. Their house had been bombed and there was little left but to escape with their lives. When they arrived in Jordan, they stayed only one night in Zaatari…

Imagine that one day you awake in your home surrounded by a war you had not expected. Aerial bombings have destroyed the houses of neighbors. Fires are burning. The smell of battle is everywhere, war is enveloping you. You cannot reach your relatives,…