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.
Mozambique has been hit by its worst drought in the past 35 years. Two million people in the central and southern parts of the country are in need of assistance to see them through the next months.
Joaquina and Relia have been neighbors in a little village close to Funhalouro in the Southeast of Mozambique for many years. The two friends spend hours to fetch water every day. Their village has no running water, no electricity and the nearest hospital is hours away. They live in a little round hut that they have built themselves with poles out of wood.
Humanitarian agencies in southern Africa have called on donors to release urgently-needed funds to save the lives and sustain the livelihoods of millions of people affected by a severe El Niño-induced drought in the region.
Ahead of a high-level event in support of the response to the impacts of El Niño and climate change in New York on Tuesday, CARE urges the international community to take immediate action to scale-up live-saving humanitarian assistance.
“What exactly is El Niño?” I was asked this question more than once in the past months. For many El Nino is an abstract term, something that reminds them of difficult geology lessons.
Atália Massango knows what it means to be thirsty. The mother of four children lives in Mulepo, a small settlement in Inhambane province in southern Mozambique. Like many other mothers, she used to leave her home in the early morning on the hours-long journey to fetch water.
“What exactly is El Niño?” I was asked this question more than once in the past months. For many El Niño is an abstract term, something that reminds them of difficult geology lessons. For 40 million people in Southern Africa, however, this weather phenomenon caused by warm water collected in the western Pacific moving back eastwards, has very real and concrete ramifications.
As the new UN Special Envoy on El Niño and Climate Change, Ms Mary Robinson, visits Ethiopia this week, CARE, a leading international humanitarian organization, calls on her to support the Ethiopian government further in its efforts to raise global attention to the current food insecurity.
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.
