Your partner is shot right in front of your eyes…he falls down… cries for help. But you don’t stop. You continue to run… run breathlessly… until you’re far, far away from your bleeding partner… and you still don’t know if they are dead or alive… This is what happened to Ayesha (22) from Myanmar. She was sharing […]
Deadly floods hit Bangladesh, India and Nepal
CARE has started distributing emergency supplies to survivors of deadly floods that have hit Nepal, India and Bangladesh. The regional crisis has affected 16 million people and there are growing concerns about food shortages and disease. “This is the worst flooding in more than 100 years,” CARE’s Country Director in Bangladesh, Zia Choudhury, said. “Almost […]
Suffering in silence: 10 humanitarian crises you haven’t heard of
In 2016, we saw many news-breaking humanitarian crises. We watched the ongoing conflict in Syria, desperate refugees crossing the Mediterranean Sea, and Hurricane Matthew decimating Haiti. Yet these headlines were just the tip of an ever-growing humanitarian iceberg. Underneath these more visible crises lay many more that never made it into the news – some […]