Impact stories

Read stories showcasing the human impact of CARE's work around the world.

 

SOMALIA Water is life

"Before, our children were constantly sick from the water, and our cattle weren’t getting enough," said Luli. She leans casually on the wooden counter of her small business while she talks, wrapped in a bright yellow cloth. On the shelves behind her are…

 

SOMALIA Travel with risk

I met Sadeem in the small village of Xaaxi in Somaliland, three dusty hours away from the closest town of Burao. Together with other women and children she sits under a mango tree. Her hands are folded in her colourful cloth, her voice breaking with…

 

ETHIOPIA Mothers helping each other

Three mothers are part of a “Mother-to-Mother” group set up by CARE in collaboration with government health services in the East Hararghe district of Ethiopia to support mothers with young children during the extreme El Niño-driven drought that has hit…

 

IRAQ Fear Remains

On my way back home from Frankfurt Airport to Bonn, the rain is drumming against the train window. My thoughts wander off to an elderly woman named Bas. I met her in the Kurdistan region of Iraq some days before.