Impact stories

It’s around nine o’clock in the morning at the centre of the village of Sulod, Samar region, in the Philippines. The weather is warm already and the bright sun leaves promise it will be hotter still midday. We’ve gathered here for a food distribution,…

As armed conflict continues in South Sudan, CARE-supported clinics are helping people in desperate need of health care. Ayuen Jooh Luala, 25 years old and in labor with twins

The CARE-supported Primary Health Care Clinic in Twic East remains open despite the escalating violence which has spread to half of Sudan's ten states over the past weeks.

Christmas is approaching and people around the world are preparing to celebrate with friends and family. In my home country Jordan, where I recently returned to as Country Director for the humanitarian aid organisation CARE, Christmas is also a time to…

CARE is deeply concerned about the violence in South Sudan, and calls all those involved to end the fighting and ensure the protection of civilians.

On a basketball court next to an elementary school badly damaged by typhoon Yolanda, Josephine Blanco (38) waits with more than 200 people in line to receive a food packet from CARE and its local partner organization, Accord. A few weeks earlier, she had…

The tragedy of typhoon Haiyan inspired a worldwide burst of generosity. Images of human suffering bring out an enormous will to help across borders and continents. It is a beautiful feature of our shared humanity.

When I arrived in the area devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan almost a month after the disaster, everywhere I looked I saw houses with roofs blown off, fallen coconut trees and power lines twisted at funny angles

Ali Jama is a father of 7 children, living near the sea shore of Gabac village; he has no food to feed his children due to damage caused by the cyclone to his boats and fishing gear which was the main source of livelihood he had.