Impact stories

Decades after fleeing their home country, more than 30,000 Somalis returned home from Yemen. They are fleeing yet another war.

Small talk can be difficult with someone who lives in Yemen. Questions about family often turn to dead relatives. Talk about a bad night’s sleep and you might find yourself in a conversation about nightly bombing raids. Such was the case last month in…

Many refugees have dubbed the journey to Europe as the ‘Death Road’ due to its perilous nature and high mortality rates, especially at sea. Despite this, thousands continue to make the trip with over 3,500 people this year already having lost their lives…

The women are also unable to help out financially; ill-equipped to work having never done so before. They now spend most of their time together watching the news from information from inside Syria – something they also never did before the war.

CARE International’s Humanitarian Director, Barbara Jackson, recently visited Afghanistan, a country suffering from both conflict and natural hazards, and a dangerous overall security situation for the foreseeable future. Here, she describes her…

"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…

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…

The 32 year old mother of four comes from Riak village in Unity state, three hours walk from Mankein. Riak once had a smart health facility complete with medical equipment and a pharmacy, but that was before the crisis that plunged South Sudan into chaos…