Story type: Story

Rosaline, a nurse from Sierra Leone who was involved in the Ebola response, and now in the COVID-19 supported response by CARE shares her fears and learnings

Impressions from a new reality

Everything about the news on COVID 19 is scary. We don’t know yet what the long-term impacts will be. We don’t know how long it will last. What we do know, from decades of responding to epidemics in some of the poorest and most fragile contexts, is that hope is possible. The only way through is together.

A blog written by Eric Ndayishimiye CARE’s Rapid Response Team, Team Leader on the deteriorating situation in Haiti.

The human interest story of 14 year old Lurde

Mounir was displaced with his family from their home in northwest Syria. They currently live in one of the informal tented settlement in northern Idlib, with many other displaced families and without any resources.

Mounir was displaced with his family from their home in northwest Syria. They currently live in one of the informal tented settlement in northern Idlib, with many other displaced families and without any resources.

47-year-old Angeline bends down to wipe the sweat from her eyes. Its midday in southern Zimbabwe and she’s out in the peak sun, without shade. But this doesn’t stop her. She has a job to do. A crucial, life-saving job. She’s here to fix the local water pump and provide fresh clean water to the community of Dzviti for the first time in over four months.

Some 300,000 people have been displaced from their homes in southern Idlib, between December 1st 2019 and January 1st 2020, moving further north away from the hostilities. Here are some of their stories.