The small plane packed to capacity with people and medicine touched down in a cloud of dust and was immediately surrounded by people who had been almost completely cut off from the outside world by two months of conflict in the world’s newest nation.
Four months ago, I moved from Germany to Jordan to support the work of our emergency team for Syrian refugees. During these four months I have talked to a lot of refugees about their fleeing Syria, their experiences, their hopes and their fears.
I grew up in the Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian Refugees in Damascus and used to be an English teacher before I had to flee to Jordan. It’s been almost two years since I last stood in front of my class at Al Emleha school
I am a father of three children. My sons are five and six years old, my daughter is eight. I used to work as a graphic designer in Homs. We had a nice house there and enjoyed our life as a family. When the war in Syria started, I did not want to leave at first.
Written by Darcy Knoll, Emergency Communications Coordinator for CARE International in the Philippines
We would like to introduce you to Eleuteria Mariano, a 78-year-old widow from the village of Amar, Antique Province on the island of Panay, Philippines. Before he died five years ago, her husband was a tenant farmer on a two-and-a-half hectare rice field. This was the only the source of income for the family for 25 years.
CARE Program Coordinator Benson Wakoli returned to battle-scarred Unity State in South Sudan during the last week of January to assess people’s needs and the condition of CARE’s health care facilities.
The light goes on and off. It flickers for a few seconds, and then everything turns dark again. Hala sits on the floor of her small room in Beirut. Ahmed, one of her five sons, runs to one of the room’s corners. Unerringly he climbs over a suitcase which lies around. He knows exactly which lumps and bumps he has to watch out for. In Sabra
It’s around nine o’clock in the morning at the centre of the village of Sulod, Samar region, in the Philippines. The weather is warm already and the bright sun leaves promise it will be hotter still midday. We’ve gathered here for a food distribution, organized by CARE
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.
