In many places around the world, CARE works with children and youth to promote education and participation. Now, CARE has started an initiative in Germany for young refugees. Marie Pieper, is doing a volunteer year at CARE’s media and communications department and tells about the beginnings of the project
On September 3, 2015, a single photo dominated the front pages of newspapers and online media worldwide. It was a little boy, three years old, his small body twisted and soaking wet, lying lifeless on a Turkish beach. Four and a half kilometers: that is the distance he would have had to overcome, to make it to the Greek island of Kos, to the promise of Europe: four and a half kilometers to find security and freedom.
When Karl Marx opened the Communist manifest with the words “a spectre is haunting Europe,” he had an idea, and a vision. That vision was a socio-political approach called communism entailing an economy which was fair, equal and that provided opportunities for the masses. It did not really ever work, and communism took forms of authoritarian regimes and economic incompetence, and was finally buried in Europe.
Take a virtual cycling tour with Alida whose journey is a personal fundraiser for CARE Australia and the Climate Council. Eight countries cycled, one more to go! After Montenegro, Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and France, her entire trip from the Balkans to Britain will have covered 3600km.
On July 15 in the very early morning hours, floodwater entered Rajina Begum’s house. By the next day, it was already one foot high. The water level continuously rose for the next few days and the family was torn between staying and leaving their house and land.
What does it mean to be ‘a humanitarian’ working in Greece – a country in Europe that, notwithstanding its economic crisis, does not fit the bill of the classic ‘emergency’ context? How does the response in Greece challenge our assumptions about what it means to be a humanitarian?
As we mark six months since Cyclone Winston devastated Fiji, CARE Australia’s Emergency Response Manager Adam Poulter reflects on the pattern of severe storms that is becoming the new normal.
Andarieta Titosse, 40 years old, is a widow and mother of three children. Her youngest child is less than seven months old. When Nércia was born, she weighed only two kilogram. During the pregnancy, Andarieta Titosse had hardly anything to eat, and there were days she could not sleep because of hunger.
What does it mean to be ‘a humanitarian’ working in Greece – a country in Europe that, notwithstanding its economic crisis, does not fit the bill of the classic ‘emergency’ context? How does the response in Greece challenge our assumptions about what it means to be a humanitarian?
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.
