Impact stories

Ali, 42, is a cattle merchant. He used to own farms, machines and water wells in Syria, but his story is that of displacement, like millions of others. Ali said goodbye to his town in Dara’a in Southern Syria, after he lost everything he owned to the…

CARE’s Women Economic Empowerment program helped Heba find the inner strength that helped her to achieve her dream of opening a clinical laboratory.

Amani* is from a small town in Eastern Ghouta, where all the houses were flattened to the ground. Life was unbearable. Amani left her husband there to look for a place to protect her children from the airstrikes. She finally settled in a camp set on…

Um Mohammed, 46, lost her husband in an airstrike in Hama, and her house was destroyed. She moved with her son Mohammed, his children -- Aisha, 7, Ghousson, 5, and Mohammed, 3 -- her daughter and 4-year-old granddaughter to a small village in the…

After years of war in Syria, Fatmeh and her family make their living in Lebanon while they await their chance to return to a safer Syria. Fatmeh dreams of only one thing: to go back one day to Syria and finish her studies. ‘I want to transmit the love of…

Despite conflict and hardship in Yemen, 45-year-old Amt- Al Salam is making exceptional efforts to cope with the situation and to fight all norms. With every step she took she was opening a petal one by one. This is her inspiring story.

Ramatou has four children – three girls and two boys. They had to flee from armed groups in their home village. Some of the other villagers were killed and others kidnapped, but they were lucky enough to flee. All of this happened three years ago. Since…