Impact stories

3am on Saturday 25 April 2015, the phone rang in my hotel room just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, USA where I was staying for a meeting with CARE USA colleagues

Over 80% of refugees from Nigeria have found shelter in host families in Niger, most of them poor and chronically hungry themselves. This is an account of humbling hospitality and one woman’s strength.

Even though we have each been in Azraq camp for an entire year, we only met three weeks ago when I welcomed new volunteers at one of our community centers in the camp. It is not surprising that our paths haven’t crossed until now, since some 18,000 souls…

Rita was just outside her home tying up the cow when all of a sudden the earth started shaking knocking her to the ground. While most people were trying to get out of their houses

When I felt the earth shaking on the day of earthquake, I could hear my neighbors screaming and running here and there. While everyone was either trying to get out of their house or trying to find a cover

About a year ago, I planned to pay a smuggler to get on a boat to Europe. A lot of people in Europe think that us refugees don’t know that we can die at sea, that we have not seen the horrific pictures of refugees’ dead bodies, that we don’t know that…

The second earthquake hit this afternoon, and everybody started screaming. Everyone is afraid that there is going to be another, stronger earthquake

Bushra Aldukhainah is Humanitarian Coordinator for CARE Yemen. Her role includes leading all the humanitarian activities in Hajjah province supporting internally displaced people and host communities mainly with livelihoods, water, sanitation and hygiene…

When people talk about the South Pacific and countries like Vanuatu, they often use words like ‘idyllic’, ‘relaxed’ or ‘peaceful’. And yes, there are plenty of parts of the South Pacific that fit those descriptions. Yet Cyclone Pam has, for at least a…