Story type: Story

She is only forty but her eyes and her wrinkled face bear witness to a life of hardship. A widow and a mother of six, Tchima Ibrahim Iro has no means to support herself and her family, and relies on other people’s handouts

Driving from Niger’s capital Niamey to the town of Konni for five hours through the sand-swept, arid Sahel region, I listened to the audio book The Hunger Games. The novel opens with a scene of bleak poverty in a post-apocalyptic town called District 12. Dirt, grime, threadbare clothing, scarce food.

Mali has experienced massive population movements since fighting erupted two weeks ago in the northern cities of Gao, Kidal, and Timbuktu. More than 107,000 people have been displaced within Mali, according to the World Food Programme, and more than 128,000 refugees have fled to other countries, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Nepal’s Prime Minister, Dr. Baburam Bhattarai congratulated CARE Nepal’s Country Director at an event organized in the Prime Miniister’s home district of Gorkha

As the conflict in neighboring Syria continues, more and more refugees are arriving in Jordan. “The number of refugees has increased in the past days. Up to 400 people arrive now daily from Syria”, says Kevin Fitzcharles, CARE Jordan’s Country Director.

Blogs depicting the devastation in Madagascar caused by Cyclone Giovanna and CARE's response on the ground By John Uniack Davis, Country Director, CARE Madagascar

The thick calloused soles of the feet of the women with whom I sat in the tiny village of Maijanjaré in Niger, seven hours by road away from the capital Niamey, tell their own story.

CARE prepares to respond to the needs of the returnees by providing health services, assistance with shelter, access to water and hygiene interventions

March 8, 2012 (GENEVA) — This International Women’s Day, CARE isn’t just celebrating women’s empowerment. The poverty-fighting organization is measuring it too, centimeter by centimeter.