I will never forget the afternoon of May 29, 2015. It was a Friday, where it is culture for family to spend the day together and we usually go to my parents for lunch. But that specific Friday we were too busy to go. Then late that afternoon, we heard a loud blast that shook the entire house. It was bombing from the airstrikes, and we knew it was close, but we didn’t know how close.
(14 August, 2015) - CARE is scaling up its response to widespread flooding in Myanmar amid fears the inundation may cause major food shortages.
Before I boarded the plane to Erbil in Northern Iraq, I took out the garbage: Compost, plastics, paper – it’s a familiar procedure. A few days later, I was standing in Camp Berseve which had been dominated by ever growing waste piles during my last visit.
Driving through the streets of Yemen’s capital of Sanaa, my heart is heavy and burdened. It was my first time returning to Yemen since the airstrikes began in March, and it is not the same country. It is now a war zone. Before I could even leave the airport, a car with security staff had to risk their lives to travel ahead of us to find a safe route to the CARE office in Sanaa.
Heavy rains in Pakistan have caused major flooding and landslides across the country, affecting nearly one million people. The Government of Pakistan is responding to these latest floods and CARE is preparing to reach over 120,000 people with healthcare and food and livelihoods support as the situation worsens.
In January this year, 77 year old Mwaona Bote, from Makhapa village in TA Mlolo in Nsanje narrowly survived one of the worst floods in Malawi in living memory
(4 August, 2015) - CARE is preparing to distribute emergency relief supplies to areas worst affected by flooding and landslides in Myanmar and Bangladesh. In Myanmar, at least 39 people have been killed, with more than 200,000 people affected across the country.
Aeed Aloosh, 50, sits in the relative cool of his shelter, protected from the sweltering desert temperatures outside. Using found materials, he and his sons have improved the insulation in their shelters, adding a layer to better protect them from the heat and cold, blocked spaces where winter rains were leaking in, and built cupboards to store their few belongings.
A year ago, images of suffering kept the world in suspense. They showed people, especially Yazidis, Christians and other minority groups who were fleeing from their homes in the Sinjar area near Mosul, in Iraq. Tens of thousands walked through dust, sand and heat, carrying children, the elderly and the injured on their backs. They walked endlessly for days on end.
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.
