Impact stories

The small plane packed to capacity with people and medicine touched down in a cloud of dust and was immediately surrounded by people who had been almost completely cut off from the outside world by two months of conflict in the world’s newest nation.

Four months ago, I moved from Germany to Jordan to support the work of our emergency team for Syrian refugees. During these four months I have talked to a lot of refugees about their fleeing Syria, their experiences, their hopes and their fears.

I am a father of three children. My sons are five and six years old, my daughter is eight. I used to work as a graphic designer in Homs. We had a nice house there and enjoyed our life as a family. When the war in Syria started, I did not want to leave at…

We would like to introduce you to Eleuteria Mariano, a 78-year-old widow from the village of Amar, Antique Province on the island of Panay, Philippines. Before he died five years ago, her husband was a tenant farmer on a two-and-a-half hectare rice…

Written by Darcy Knoll, Emergency Communications Coordinator for CARE International in the Philippines

CARE Program Coordinator Benson Wakoli returned to battle-scarred Unity State in South Sudan during the last week of January to assess people’s needs and the condition of CARE’s health care facilities.

The light goes on and off. It flickers for a few seconds, and then everything turns dark again. Hala sits on the floor of her small room in Beirut. Ahmed, one of her five sons, runs to one of the room’s corners. Unerringly he climbs over a suitcase which…

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