Story type: Story

Richard James-Koma is a humanitarian worker with CARE in South Sudan. He tells us of the trials and triumphs of being an aid worker and how his hope for what the future can be inspires him to keep going.

Frédérique Lehoux, CARE’s Global Humanitarian Partnership Coordinator, tells us about her recent visit to Goma, DRC, where she supported CARE teams in the country to make the most of its partnerships with Congolese civil society organizations.

A surge in violent conflict and inter-communal tensions has forced more than 781,000 Congolese, many of them women and children, to flee their homes since 2017. The situation continues to deteriorate dramatically as escalating violence, particularly in the country’s eastern region, is causing an exodus in neighboring countries.

The international community urgently needs to step up funding to support hundreds of thousands of refugees from Venezuela, warns the aid organization CARE. More than 1.5 million Venezuelans have fled their country over the past year as a result of high levels of violence, lack of food, medicine and access to essential social services.

The monsoon season in Bangladesh marks a period of intense rains typically lasting from May through September. This year, after the influx of over 700,000 refugees into what has become the most densely populated refugee camps globally, these rains pose even greater threat.

Almaz, a nine-month-pregnant mother of five, living in a camp with a large number of people crowding together in Kochere in Southern Ethiopia inside a government office building still under construction. There are more than 820,000 people displaced in Gedeo sheltered in office buildings, churches, schools, sheds, host communities and sheds.

Almaz, 27 years old, is one of more than 820,000 displaced people in Gedeo zone in Southern Ethiopia. Almaz has taken shelter in a school in Gedeb. Her baby was crying while she was telling her story. Each classroom has 40 to 50 people sleeping on the bare ground.

In the corridor of a public building in Kochore center for internally displaced people in the southern part of Ethiopia, where hundreds of thousands of people have recently arrived, Alemu’s family has sought shelter. The building is crowded with people. There is a strong smell and it feels suffocating inside. Sadness and despair are apparent on the faces of people. Among the sad faces, Alemu wanted to share his story.

More than 1,000 children and parents from Syria and Turkey came together recently to interact and play at the first Kilis Children’s Festival, organised by CARE and the Kilis municipality at the Southern Turkish town’s football stadium.