Impact stories

CARE and our local partners are supporting displaced families in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as they struggle through the cold winter months.

Havana, Cuba - On December 19, just two days after presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro made the historic announcement of talks to normalize relations between Cuba and the U.S., I departed for Canada for the holidays.

57-year old Iyappu Jacob has been living in Kunchukulam in Sri Lanka since his birth. He has been engaged in agriculture for over 30 years. He is a very

In the northern Jordanian city Irbid, lives Leila, a 60 year-old woman who fled Daraa, Syria more than two years ago when the heavy bombing of her neighborhood was too much to bear. “We survived death,” says Leila.

Boarding the plane from Jakarta, I got my first indication that the Banda Aceh I was returning to wasn’t the same as the one I had left 10 years ago.

South Sudan has one of the highest maternal mortality rates – yet with the proper investment and resources, we can make safe births a reality.

Last Friday in Beirut I met Hamid, a young Syrian from Damascus. He’s been working as a waiter at a restaurant on the Corniche for almost a year. Hamid’s sisters and parents decided to remain in Damascus when he moved across the border from Syria in…

“Not another Haiyan, please!”, was my first thought when I learned about a potential super typhoon hitting our region again and including our dear Tacloban in its path.