Topic: Crisis Response

'Number seven' stands up from the patterned straw mat, rubs away the folds in her pink dress and approaches the five women that have been elected to run the savings box. She puts this week’s savings amount in a blue plastic bowl before the notes are moved over to the box.

Aid agency CARE International releases “Five Years into Exile: The challenges faced by Syrian refugees outside camps in Jordan and how they and their host communities are coping”.

Syrian refugees in Jordan continue to face immense and increasing challenges leading to grave concerns about their vulnerability and protection, says a new study from CARE International.

The challenges faced by Syrian refugees outside camps in Jordan and how they and their host communities are coping.

Motaz [name changed*] sits in a circle of Syrian refugees leading a conversation about issues facing the refugees who have fled to Turkey from nearby Kobane in northern Syria. The group are all part of CARE’s new Information Volunteer programme which provides psychosocial support to Syrian refugees on a range of diverse and sometimes sensitive topics – including gender-based violence and child marriage.

“The leaders of our country can learn a lot from us. Bring them here – we can teach them how to make peace,” a tribal leader told me.

As EU leaders meet to endorse the European Agenda on Migration on 25 and 26 June, aid agencies today warn against merely focusing on preventing refugees from reaching Europe as it will only lead to further deaths at sea.

Refugee: A person who is outside their home country because they have suffered or feared persecution; or because they are fleeing war. Sadly, as we recognize

Earthquakes, perhaps more than any other type of disaster, are a shelter disaster. In Nepal this is more the case than any disaster I’ve known – but the effects of the earthquake are far from simple, and the knock-on effects go beyond people just lacking a roof over their heads.