Topic: Crisis Response

The crisis is not easy to understand and has multiple causes. But what is clear is that people are in urgent need of assistance in this unprecedented humanitarian crisis.

On October 4, 2016, Hurricane Matthew passed through Haiti and significantly impacted its southern peninsula. The Category 4 hurricane caused 546 casualties, extensive damage and affected more than 2.1 million people.

More than 300,000 women and children in are in urgent need of safe shelter, health services, sanitary facilities and protection.

English: Most families only eat 1 meal per day, often just plain rice. There are signs of severe malnutrition. In some of the camps more than 6,000 people are sharing 3 toilets.

Ayesha was doing household chores and her husband Abdur Rahim was getting ready to open his small grocery shop. All of a sudden, some people came and torched the entire village. Ayesha and everyone else ran for their lives. The next few days, they lived under the open sky in another village.

Haitians are exhausted from the constant natural disasters they are facing.

Only a few days after Hurricane Irman struck, CARE's staff in Cuba visited some of the hardest hit areas.

"I still can’t believe it – it is sad to lose it all – to wake up and see that everything is beneath rubble"

In the past weeks, more than 400,000 people from Myanmar have fled to Bangladesh after a rise of violence.