CARE supported drought and conflict-affected communities in the Sahel region of West Africa—in Mali, Chad, Niger, Cameroon—during the previous food crisis in 2011-2012. At the beginning of 2013, CARE scaled up its response when conflict in northern Mali led to nearly half a million people displaced both inside Mali and in neighbouring countries.
CARE Program Coordinator Benson Wakoli returned to battle-scarred Unity State in South Sudan during the last week of January to assess people’s needs and the condition of CARE’s health care facilities.
Three months since Typhoon Haiyan slammed the Philippines, humanitarian organization CARE is increasingly concerned too many survivors remain without the means to meet their basic needs.
The light goes on and off. It flickers for a few seconds, and then everything turns dark again. Hala sits on the floor of her small room in Beirut. Ahmed, one of her five sons, runs to one of the room’s corners. Unerringly he climbs over a suitcase which lies around. He knows exactly which lumps and bumps he has to watch out for. In Sabra
Geneva, January 31, 2014. At the closing of the Geneva II talks, CARE remains deeply concerned about the plight of over ten million Syrians that are in need of humanitarian aid, both within Syria and the region.
JUBA, South Sudan (January 24, 2014): CARE welcomes the ceasefire agreement reached for South Sudan and hopes it will create an opportunity to reach hundreds of thousands of people who are in desperate need of help.
It’s around nine o’clock in the morning at the centre of the village of Sulod, Samar region, in the Philippines. The weather is warm already and the bright sun leaves promise it will be hotter still midday. We’ve gathered here for a food distribution, organized by CARE
As armed conflict continues in South Sudan, CARE-supported clinics are helping people in desperate need of health care. Ayuen Jooh Luala, 25 years old and in labor with twins
As the armed conflict in South Sudan enters its second month, CARE calls for an end to the violence and continues to support life-saving work in dozens of the country’s clinics.CARE is especially concerned about the effect of the violence on women and girls.
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.
