New York City-based Women’s Refugee Commission will honor CARE volunteer Adey Ali Dahir (“Mama Adey”) during its 2015 Voices of Courage awards luncheon today in Manhattan, recognizing her longtime commitment to the safety of women and girl refugees.
About a year ago, I planned to pay a smuggler to get on a boat to Europe. A lot of people in Europe think that us refugees don’t know that we can die at sea, that we have not seen the horrific pictures of refugees’ dead bodies, that we don’t know that tens of thousands of people have been buried on Europe’s shores.
International aid agency CARE plans to distribute emergency shelter and hygiene kits this week to nearly 2,500 vulnerable people impacted by the earthquake in Nepal. Distribution of 250 kits are planned Wednesday in Gorkha, a rural area near the epicenter where it’s estimated that up to 80 percent of the homes are damaged.
Fighting in Yemen is continuing despite Saudi Arabia’s recent announcement of an end to military operations, a group of leading aid agencies has warned. The ongoing conflict is preventing humanitarian organisations from delivering life-saving assistance, the agencies say.
The second earthquake hit this afternoon, and everybody started screaming. Everyone is afraid that there is going to be another, stronger earthquake
Kathmandu, NEPAL (26 April 2015) - CARE is responding to a devastating earthquake that struck between the Nepalese capital Kathmandu and the city of Pokhara yesterday.
CARE is mobilizing to respond to the 7.9 magnitude earthquake that struck between the Nepalese capital Kathmandu and the city of Pokhara at 11:45am local time.
A 7.9 magnitude earthquake has struck Nepal at 11:46am local time. The epicenter of the earthquake struck in an area between the Nepalese capital Kathmandu and the city of Pokhara.
Although airstrikes have been declared over, instability remains and the humanitarian needs continue to skyrocket. Humanitarian access must improve and a political solution reached, or Yemen could face a humanitarian catastrophe, warns CARE.
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