Impact stories

“When I was married, I thought my husband had to do everything. Now, I don’t think anymore that I can’t live without him. I feel good. I don’t feel threatened anymore.” Clemantine Namulao, from Kyeshero, North Kivu, DRC

Raivo, a 41-year old women with two children, living in the village of Andaboly tells CARE how she experienced cyclone Haruna’s landfall.

On February 22 at six o’clock in the morning, Cyclone Haruna made landfall in southwestern Madagascar. The storm went across the island over a period of 24 hours, bringing with it extreme winds up to 200 km/h.

The small kingdom of Lesotho is experiencing a severe food crisis for many months. But first of all: where is Lesotho located?

Abu Anas greets the newcomers with a warm smile. The Syrian family, mother, father and two sons, just arrived here in Amman, Jordan two weeks ago. When the bombing became unbearable, they left their home in Syria.

“My name is Khalil and I am 37 years old. I am from the city of Homs, Syria, where I used to work as a lawyer. Now, my office is destroyed, I lost everything and I have no income anymore.

During the first week of February the European Council will meet to decide the EU’s financial priorities and to outline a spending plan covering the next seven years.

I had to leave my village of Temara (Goundam area, Timbuktu region) eight months ago because of the crisis in the north of Mali. Since then, I have been living in Sevare (Mopti region) with my family and that of my brother - about 20 people – in a house…

Tropical cyclone Bopha made landfall in the Philippines on December 4, sweeping across the southern islands and affecting 26 of the Philippines’ 80 provinces.