Topic: Crisis Response

ATLANTA, Ga. (April 5, 2010) – CARE is scaling up its response to help those affected by the post-election violence in Côte d’Ivoire that has besieged the country for months.

CARE voices concerns about the risks of sexual violence and exploitation among Ivorian refugees arriving in Liberia. Prevention must be part of the first emergency response.

On 11 March 2011, an earthquake measuring 9.0 hit off the eastern coast of Japan. It was the fourth biggest earthquake ever recorded. An enormous tsunami swept in and caused massive destruction.

The CARE Japan advance team left Tokyo at midnight on Thursday and arrived in the Iwate region the next morning. Iwate is one of the prefectures heavily destroyed by a massive earthquake and a tsunami that hit Japan on Friday, March 11. Upon arrival at Kamiashi city the small team with assistant program director Futaba Kaiharazuka faced severe cold conditions.

CARE Japan is sending a convoy of three vehicles packed with relief items to the destroyed area of Iwate prefecture in North Japan to assist people affected by the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on Friday.

CARE Japan will assist the ongoing emergency response in Japan after the massive earthquake and tsunami.

A massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake hit Japan this morning. It unleashed a major tsunami which has caused major damage in the country.

The political protests and violent crackdown in Libya has caused nearly 250,000 people to flee, mainly into neighbouring Tunisia and Egypt, and to a lesser degree into Niger.

These following stories were collected in the Liberian villages of Gblarlay and Theahplay in Nimba County a few kilometres from the border to Cote d’Ivoire on the 24th and 25th of February 2011