Impact stories

Three years after the Beirut port exploded, killing over 200 people, injuring 7,000 and leaving a trail of destrcution, CARE Lebanon’s Program Implementation Coordinator describes how he coordinated the humanitarian response to the disaster.

Six months later, the humanitarian needs following the earthquake are still enormous. The situation for people in the affected areas of Türkiye and north-west Syria remains catastrophic.

After losing her mother and children to the earthquake, Elcin and her father now live in a 7-by-2-meter container in her neighborhood. Their town is destroyed to the ground. The earthquake destroyed homes, workplaces, markets, and schools.

“Before the earthquake we had five shops and many employees. My grandfather and father already built their life with Baklava. It’s tradition. Now everything is lost,” says Hüsameddin.

Six months after the earthquakes, Fatma and her 9-year-old daughter, Aisha*, recall the first moments of the natural disaster and share with us how their lives have changed within seconds.

According to a recently published Gender Equality Annual Report, CARE has supported 16.5 million women and girls to increase their empowerment & gender equality since 2015.

The world of humanitarian response is bigger and more diverse than most people imagine. CARE and our partners do it all, working with people impacted by crises and local organizations to figure out the best steps to help people cope with the emergencies…

"Honestly, here in Lebanon, we don’t think about our dreams. This isn’t the country of dreams; it’s the country of misery. Really. We are without electricity, medical care. We are deprived of everything. There’s nothing," says Youmin, a small-scale…

Mable and her neighbors are already feeling the bitter consequences of the climate crisis. In response, CARE has launched a climate project with the community to provide farmers with long-term and sustainable solutions.