Topic: Crisis Response

Among the 33 million people impacted, women and girls face higher risks of violence and suffer from lack of access to reproductive health

Catastrophic floods have killed over 900 people and impacted more than 300 million across the country. CARE and partners are providing emergency relief items, including hygiene and shelter kits.

Currently, 1.4 million children in Somalia are impacted by the drought. CARE helps affected families to ensure that girls like Hamdi, who dreams of becoming a Minister of Education, can go to school.

An entire village of pastoralists now relies on one water tank delivery per month to survive - people have lost their livelihoods and are struggling to meet the most basic needs.

The village where Asha Mohammed and her eight children live has not even enough drinking water. She described the daily hardship of living without water for her family's most basic needs.

“I’m now a better person, stronger and empowered. I’m not afraid of tomorrow because I know I can do it. I have a mission now. I must stand by my community women to support them and show them that if I did it, all of them can, too.” Fadah, Woman entrepreneur in Syria. In some of the scariest situations and hardest years in the world, we’ve seen farmers find a way to produce with a little extra support. We’ve seen entrepreneurs find ways to keep food systems running. We’ve done it before—let’s do it again.

“Before COVID, the community didn’t really pay attention to us. Now we have a lot of power to make change – when we talk, people listen. It’s completely changed how we are perceived and treated.” - Female health worker, Uganda

“There was an accident in the community. It was very serious and the VSLAs wanted to support even though it affected people not in the VSLA group. They wanted to feel like their association could provide something for the wider community not just themselves.” – Yemen Programme Team Member