Impact stories

“They took the beautiful girls,” Goze tells me from her temporary home in a camp in northern Iraq. It soon becomes clear what she was alluding to: the women were raped, their husbands killed.

Question as "Where is Mosul? How big is it?", "How many people are affected?", "When did the conflict start?" are explained

John Watt, CARE’s Country Director in Northern Iraq describes CARE’s current preparations to help people who might flee once fighting for Mosul intensifies.

On my way back home from Frankfurt Airport to Bonn, the rain is drumming against the train window. My thoughts wander off to an elderly woman named Bas. I met her in the Kurdistan region of Iraq some days before.

Before I boarded the plane to Erbil in Northern Iraq, I took out the garbage: Compost, plastics, paper – it’s a familiar procedure. A few days later, I was standing in Camp Berseve which had been dominated by ever growing waste piles during my last visit.

A year ago, images of suffering kept the world in suspense. They showed people, especially Yazidis, Christians and other minority groups who were fleeing from their homes in the Sinjar area near Mosul, in Iraq. Tens of thousands walked through dust, sand…

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

International star Beyoncé, the United Nations and humanitarian aid organizations have launched a global campaign to shine a spotlight on humanitarian work and encourage people around the world to get involved by doing something good for others. CARE,…