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5 Min Inspiration: How diets (and CARE) help kids grow up healthy
As many as 149 million children under five are stunted (too short for their age) and over 49 million are wasted (too thin). Malnutrition is more than a lack of food or calories. Good nutrition demands a diversity of quality food, with the right nutrients, in the right amounts.
Read moreMOVE UP mobile market: Creating alternative livelihoods for pandemic-affected communities in Cotabato City, Philippines
The coronavirus pandemic is affecting not just the health but also the livelihoods of people around the world. In Cotabato City, many from urban poor communities have been unable to work because of strict quarantine measures imposed across the Philippines, midway through March 2020.
Read moreCelebrating Real-life Humanitarian Heroes
Humanitarian work can take many forms and is a critical lifeline for many communities. The overwhelming majority of humanitarians around the world are local staff members and volunteers. Most often it is members of affected communities who are the first responders.
Read more“I have no limits when it comes to work. I take the opportunities that I find”
32 years old Gregoris del Valle Camacho Figueroa, a Venezuelan migrant, lives in Huaquillas (on the border with Peru) in Ecuador with 2 of her children while her other 2 children remain with her mother in their home country of Venezuela.
Read more“A woman has no choice, she must always stand in the face of storms"
"When the confinement of coronavirus began, I was starting my life over. I had just lost everything to keep my three-year-old son with me,” says Dima, 47, from Tripoli, the poorest city in the Mediterranean.
Read moreLebanon: "We survived, but we're not okay"
One week after the devastating blast that shook Beirut to its core and destroyed half the city, the shock wave is not done ripping through the hearts and souls of those who witnessed the single largest explosion in peacetime history.
Read moreGlimpses of Eid Over Years of Turmoil in Syria
Stories of Eid in Syria
Read moreUnlocking the Lockdown: CARE Staff working in Cox's Bazaar complete 900 CARE Academy courses in just 90 days
We all are living in and working through highly complex times. It is especially challenging for those who are on the frontlines providing essential and life-saving support. The staff members from Rohingya response in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh are no exceptions.
Read moreSearching for Safe Spaces: Creating Online Communities for Youth under Lockdown in the Balkans
In one day, 18-year-old Rubin went from hanging out with his friends at high school, to learning mathematics at home under lockdown in Albania.
Read moreLiving through displacement during the COVID-19 pandemic
In Yemen, 24.3 million people, about 80% of the population, need some form of humanitarian aid and protection. Five years of conflict have left the country with the fourth-largest number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the world. A total of 3.6 million Yemenis were forced to flee their homes ...
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