Read stories showcasing the human impact of CARE's work around the world.
Two weeks ago, Yawo Douvon, CARE’s country director in the Democratic Republic of Congo, found himself showing Angelina Jolie and UK foreign minister William Hague around the Lac Vert camp for displaced people near Goma, where they had come to meet rape…
Yana [1], 26 years old, tends to her month old baby as her two year old daughter sits on the floor playing with a bib – there are no toys to entertain her.
CARE Lesotho is currently distributing cash vouchers to 210 households affected by the current food crisis in Linakaneng and Moeketsane villages of Mokhotling district, North Eastern Lesotho
Rose Vive Lobo, 42 years, is married with seven children. Since 2010, she has been working as a project manager for socio-economic reintegration with CARE DRC, in Goma
38-year-old Joel used to be a primary school teacher. He comes across well spoken and thoughtful. You can imagine him being good with his students.
It’s like the whole of North Kivu (DRC) is in motion, on the road, fleeing fighting, arriving to or leaving camps. There is fighting, fleeing. And raping.
Ask women in rural Africa when they were born, and they would invariably answer you surprised, full of uncertainty: “I think it was in 1981 or 1982”.
The women of Kitchanga keep arriving to the camps on the outskirts of Goma, DRC. They have had to flee their homes as their town of Kitchanga was caught up in violence and fighting between armed groups earlier in March.
“Are you Syrian? Will you marry me?” These are just some of the questions that 34 year old Mufeeda has been hearing since her husband went missing in Syria.
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.
