Bamako, Mali. More than 800,000 people need immediate food assistance, and across the country three million people are at risk of not finding enough to eat, according to the result of the December 2013 Harmonized Framework which convenes non-governmental organizations (NGOs), governments, and United Nations agencies working on food security in the Sahel . More than half of these people are living in northern Mali.
As violence continues in South Sudan, CARE is working to help families who have fled their homes. On February 18, opposition forces launched an attack on Upper Nile State’s capital, Malakal. The town had already been devastated by more than six weeks of fighting in December 2013 and January 2014
The small plane packed to capacity with people and medicine touched down in a cloud of dust and was immediately surrounded by people who had been almost completely cut off from the outside world by two months of conflict in the world’s newest nation.
Four months ago, I moved from Germany to Jordan to support the work of our emergency team for Syrian refugees. During these four months I have talked to a lot of refugees about their fleeing Syria, their experiences, their hopes and their fears.
I grew up in the Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian Refugees in Damascus and used to be an English teacher before I had to flee to Jordan. It’s been almost two years since I last stood in front of my class at Al Emleha school
I am a father of three children. My sons are five and six years old, my daughter is eight. I used to work as a graphic designer in Homs. We had a nice house there and enjoyed our life as a family. When the war in Syria started, I did not want to leave at first.
The crisis endured by the people of South Sudan for the past two months will get a lot worse unless relief organizations are able to deliver supplies before they are cut off by the approaching rainy season, the humanitarian group CARE warned this week.
Written by Darcy Knoll, Emergency Communications Coordinator for CARE International in the Philippines
We would like to introduce you to Eleuteria Mariano, a 78-year-old widow from the village of Amar, Antique Province on the island of Panay, Philippines. Before he died five years ago, her husband was a tenant farmer on a two-and-a-half hectare rice field. This was the only the source of income for the family for 25 years.
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.
