Fleeing famine
What do you do when faced with the threat of starvation?
Impact stories
Read stories showcasing the human impact of CARE's work around the world.
Famine is a word, suffering is the reality
Blog by CARE South Sudan's Food Security and Livelihoods Manager
Christmas lanterns, traditional dances and burning oak twigs
How CARE staff and program participants celebrate the holidays
Washed away by the water
To meet 25-year-old Regina Kumara you would think she was like any other young woman her age – happily playing with her young daughter Paska.
A day in the life of a CARE mobile health team
36-year-old Gabriel Wadar Chieng, a nurse and in-charge of the CARE mobile health team, gives an insight into what it’s like to be a member of this team.
South Sudan: united we progress
In the local Lotuko language Ituba means ‘united we progress’. It is also the name chosen by a group of 30 women in Eastern Equatoria, South Sudan for their one-month old village savings and loans (VSLA) group. A statement of purpose and of hope.
South Sudan: a life reduced to fourteen rusty cups
Stacked neatly in a pyramid fourteen rusted metal cups represent all that is left of 11-year-old Regina’s life. Belongings carefully guarded and transported some 2,000 kilometres back from Khartoum, Sudan in 2011 - to mark the family’s new life in the…
Charity ‘begins’ at home
I was sitting under tree in Omoliha market, Torit one weekend when a little girl of around six years, in ragged clothes, came and stood by my side quietly without a word and hugging herself for warmth. Seeing that she wasn’t likely to start conversation…
South Sudan: We won’t give up on you
In all my 16 years as a humanitarian aid worker, I have never seen anything like the violence that besieged Juba, South Sudan, last month. It started on a Thursday night with small-arms gunfire that I thought would end quickly.