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 Maro region since 2012.
“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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
The women of Kitchanga keep arriving to the camps on the outskirts of Goma, DRC. They have had to flee their homes as their town of Kitchanga was caught up in violence and fighting between armed groups earlier in March.
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”.
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.
