Impact stories

Almaz, 27 years old, is one of more than 820,000 displaced people in Gedeo zone in Southern Ethiopia. Almaz has taken shelter in a school in Gedeb. Her baby was crying while she was telling her story. Each classroom has 40 to 50 people sleeping on the…

Almaz, a nine-month-pregnant mother of five, living in a camp with a large number of people crowding together in Kochere in Southern Ethiopia inside a government office building still under construction. There are more than 820,000 people displaced in…

In the corridor of a public building in Kochore center for internally displaced people in the southern part of Ethiopia, where hundreds of thousands of people have recently arrived, Alemu’s family has sought shelter. The building is crowded with people…

More than 1,000 children and parents from Syria and Turkey came together recently to interact and play at the first Kilis Children’s Festival, organised by CARE and the Kilis municipality at the Southern Turkish town’s football stadium.

Afaf was the first farmer and woman to grow baby cucumber in the West Bank. She is now recruiting her own staff to help the business grow. Fa’eda’s eggplants have been tested and CARE is facilitating the provision of the certification which will allow…

This is not a story of a one-man show facing the world, the all hail Caesar type. This story is unlike in fiction with having to go through a stereotypical plot of transition from a protagonist to hero/heroine. I wouldn’t say this is a sad story either…

Since the beginning of this year, over 800,000 people have fled the violence in Ethiopia. In total, around one million people are estimated to be internally displaced in the country. Houses and major infrastructure have been severely damaged. More than…

Ala’a is a 35-year-old tomato grower, his farm nested within the Jordan Valley in northern West Bank. Over the past nine months, through support from CARE, Ala’a has established a demonstration tomato greenhouse that follows safer pesticide practices to…