Impact stories

Irina has been passionate about social work since childhood. She understood firsthand the significance of risking one's life to save others. Recently, she joined CARE Ukraine as a Rapid Response Officer, which enabled her to extend assistance to many who…

Hanah* is a mother of six children. She has experienced the challenges of repeated displacement due to the war, and more recently, the earthquakes that shook Türkiye and Northwest Syria six months ago.

After losing her mother and children to the earthquake, Elcin and her father now live in a 7-by-2-meter container in her neighborhood. Their town is destroyed to the ground. The earthquake destroyed homes, workplaces, markets, and schools.

“Before the earthquake we had five shops and many employees. My grandfather and father already built their life with Baklava. It’s tradition. Now everything is lost,” says Hüsameddin.

Six months after the earthquakes, Fatma and her 9-year-old daughter, Aisha*, recall the first moments of the natural disaster and share with us how their lives have changed within seconds.

Three years after the Beirut port exploded, killing over 200 people, injuring 7,000 and leaving a trail of destrcution, CARE Lebanon’s Program Implementation Coordinator describes how he coordinated the humanitarian response to the disaster.

Six months later, the humanitarian needs following the earthquake are still enormous. The situation for people in the affected areas of Türkiye and north-west Syria remains catastrophic.

"Honestly, here in Lebanon, we don’t think about our dreams. This isn’t the country of dreams; it’s the country of misery. Really. We are without electricity, medical care. We are deprived of everything. There’s nothing," says Youmin, a small-scale…

In this camp of displaced people in southern Zambia no one is forgotten. They share their food. They cook for each other. They support each other. They have become a community. A big family. They survive all together.