Impact stories

Blog by Carmen Tremblay, Senior Emergency Response Manager for CARE Canada. She travelled to Chad in April to support CARE’s emergency response to increasing humanitarian needs in the country.

Yana [1], 26 years old, tends to her month old baby as her two year old daughter sits on the floor playing with a bib – there are no toys to entertain her.

According to data from the Maro UNHCR field office near the Chadian border, more than 5,800 people have left CAR and arrived in the Sido district of southern Chad since the beginning of March. This is in addition to the 17,000 refugees already in the…

“If we knew this would happen to us we wouldn’t have brought so many children into the world.” These are the words of Rima [1] , a Syrian refugee living in Amman.

CARE Lesotho is currently distributing cash vouchers to 210 households affected by the current food crisis in Linakaneng and Moeketsane villages of Mokhotling district, North Eastern Lesotho

Rose Vive Lobo, 42 years, is married with seven children. Since 2010, she has been working as a project manager for socio-economic reintegration with CARE DRC, in Goma

38-year-old Joel used to be a primary school teacher. He comes across well spoken and thoughtful. You can imagine him being good with his students.

It’s like the whole of North Kivu (DRC) is in motion, on the road, fleeing fighting, arriving to or leaving camps. There is fighting, fleeing. And raping.

Ask women in rural Africa when they were born, and they would invariably answer you surprised, full of uncertainty: “I think it was in 1981 or 1982”.