Impact stories

CARE Communications Lead in Lebanon Patricia Khoder shares her daily challenges and reflections on living in Beirut today, a city immersed in a deep economic crisis and still greatly affected by the consequences of the port explosion in 2020

An entire village of pastoralists now relies on one water tank delivery per month to survive - people have lost their livelihoods and are struggling to meet the most basic needs.

Currently, 1.4 million children in Somalia are impacted by the drought. CARE helps affected families to ensure that girls like Hamdi, who dreams of becoming a Minister of Education, can go to school.

The village where Asha Mohammed and her eight children live has not even enough drinking water. She described the daily hardship of living without water for her family's most basic needs.

“There was an accident in the community. It was very serious and the VSLAs wanted to support even though it affected people not in the VSLA group. They wanted to feel like their association could provide something for the wider community not just…

“I’m now a better person, stronger and empowered. I’m not afraid of tomorrow because I know I can do it. I have a mission now. I must stand by my community women to support them and show them that if I did it, all of them can, too.” Fadah, Woman…

Ardo Dhunkel is a woman in Somalia who runs her own small business. Conditions in her village are so extreme that people have to survive on 13 litres of water a MONTH. The international standard for the least amount of water one person should have is 15…

After fleeing the war in Ukraine, Daria Khrystenko started working as Communications Officer at CARE Poland

“Before COVID, the community didn’t really pay attention to us. Now we have a lot of power to make change – when we talk, people listen. It’s completely changed how we are perceived and treated.” - Female health worker, Uganda