Topic: Crisis Response

 

CARE International Policy on Interactions with Armed Actors

As an operational development and humanitarian actor, CARE staff and partners interact with armed actors for a variety of reasons including negotiating and maintaining access to those in need of assistance, and promoting the safety of humanitarian workers and the protection of civilians.

Syria_Toys a watch and lighter retrieved from earthquakes
 

Syria: The things they went back for

A mortar and pestle. A ring. A notebook. A colored pencil. A baseball. Coffee cups. Clothes their daughter would have worn, had she lived. These are just a few of the things Ammar, Qasem, Amira, Shams, and Mohammed rescued from the rubble in the days after the earthquakes.