Read stories showcasing the human impact of CARE's work around the world.
We would like to introduce you to Eleuteria Mariano, a 78-year-old widow from the village of Amar, Antique Province on the island of Panay, Philippines. Before he died five years ago, her husband was a tenant farmer on a two-and-a-half hectare rice…
It’s around nine o’clock in the morning at the centre of the village of Sulod, Samar region, in the Philippines. The weather is warm already and the bright sun leaves promise it will be hotter still midday. We’ve gathered here for a food distribution,…
On a basketball court next to an elementary school badly damaged by typhoon Yolanda, Josephine Blanco (38) waits with more than 200 people in line to receive a food packet from CARE and its local partner organization, Accord. A few weeks earlier, she had…
The tragedy of typhoon Haiyan inspired a worldwide burst of generosity. Images of human suffering bring out an enormous will to help across borders and continents. It is a beautiful feature of our shared humanity.
When I arrived in the area devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan almost a month after the disaster, everywhere I looked I saw houses with roofs blown off, fallen coconut trees and power lines twisted at funny angles
What is the situation like now in the communities you visited on Leyte and Samar islands? In spite of the massive devastation from the typhoon a month ago, we are seeing an incredible amount of resiliency and activity. The local population is very busy
On November 8, Ermalinda Quieros should have been celebrating the birth of her first grandson. Instead she was with her daughter-in-law as she gave birth squatting in the hallway of the overcrowded hospital in Ormoc. Staff at the hospital were…
Eight vans, three days, thousands of typhoon survivors. That’s the math CARE is looking at for a rapid series of food distributions on the Philippine island of Panay.
When Typhoon Haiyan’s 16-foot storm surge crashed into this seaside neighborhood in Tacloban, a group of 300 neighbors clung to a rope atop a roof. When it was over, only three houses were left standing in the seafront area.
In FY2024, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.
