Impact stories

She waited in agony for two days til her husband returned before she could take her baby to the hospital.

“We had to walk for over two hours to get to the hospital. My husband had to borrow money from friends to cover the fees for the medical examination,”

The strongest storm ever recorded in the Southern hemisphere swept through Fiji on Saturday 20 February, devastating the Pacific nation. Alumita Marisia tells her story.

The strongest storm ever recorded in the Southern hemisphere swept through Fiji on Saturday 20 February, devastating the Pacific nation. Paulina Merama tells her story.

On the island of Tanna, in Vanuatu, CARE has spoken with school girls about the challenges that keep them away from school. One reason may be a surprise: toilets!

Why Toilets? Sanitation is important. Clean and safe toilets have a positive effect on all of us. Good sanitation prevents children from illnesses like diarrheal diseases, keeps girls in school and reduces health care costs. Meet Faith and her son to…

Cleaning public toilets is not a pleasant task, regardless where you are. But for Janay Issack it is twice as hard. The 34-year-old mother of nine children takes care of school latrines for more than 2,100 pupils in one of the most challenging…

A cotton flower is soft, fluffy and beautiful. But a 40 kilo bag of cotton is a 40 kilo bag - and Severine and Maina, two middle-aged women, have come a long way transporting their heavy load to the buyers' market here in Muape, northern Mozambique. They…