How creativity gets us through a crisis

We all need courage and patience to get us through coronavirus. All around the world, CARE teams and the people you support have been rising to the challenge. And they are adding one more critical ingredient: creativity. As lockdowns, social distancing, and empty supermarkets affect our lives, CARE is adapting our work to find new […]

Stopping the spread in Azraq Refugee Camp

In Jordan, 90 kilometres west of the Syrian border, Azraq Refugee Camp holds nearly 40,000 people who have fled the violence plaguing their country for nine years. An outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in this camp would be catastrophic. As the virus starts to reach displaced communities like Azraq, where healthcare systems are already weak […]

“Please do not forget Yemen”

Q&A with CARE Yemen Country Director Aaron Brent As of today, there are no confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Yemen. Five years of war has made the country one of the most isolated places in the world. Sana’a International Airport has been closed for nearly four years – with only humanitarian flights allowed in. Now, […]

“We worry a lot about this disease.”

29-year-old Rosaline is a nurse in a CARE-supported health facility in Sierra Leone. She was a front-line worker during Ebola and is now helping her community prepare for the COVID-19 coronavirus. What is the situation like in Sierra Leone right now?  The situation is not easy. People worry a lot. We, the nurses, are putting […]

A harrowing journey from unimaginable violence to strength

Raped and left for dead on the same day her husband was murdered, Cecile* survived. Now safe in Uganda, she helps other women who have experienced gender-based violence.  In a single horrific day, Cecile’s life changed forever.  As she tended to her garden in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a group of men grabbed her, […]

The racecar driver leaving gender stereotypes in the dust

“The gas pedal makes me feel free.” Car racing may be a male-dominated sport, but women like Marah are leaving gender stereotypes in the dust.  Car racing may be a male-dominated sport, but women like Marah, 28, are changing that. At improvised racetracks around the West Bank, she is breaking records and stereotypes. Marah, along […]

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