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CARE Philippines, through its Typhoon Haiyan Reconstruction Assistance (THRA) project, launched the Season-long Training for Vegetable Farmers in Northern Iloilo in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture, the Local Government of Lemery and Taytay sa Kauswagan, Inc (TSKI), as CARE’s facilitating partner in the Province of Iloilo.
Read moreA Woman Farmer to the Rescue
CARE Philippines has ventured into cassava value chain development in Leyte, one of the most depressed provinces in the Philippines and the hardest hit by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. Cassava is a perennial crop and traditionally grown for food and other food products.
Read moreAge is not a hindrance to accessing opportunities
Imelda, a 64-year-old vegetable farmer in Lemery in Iloilo, shared that farming has been part of her system. She learned it from her parents when she was ten years old.
Read moreCARE's Shelter Program: Winterization for Refugees in Turkey
Turkey is the largest refugee hosting country in the world, with over 3.5 million Syrian refugees registered in the country. Over 90 per cent of the refugee population lives in urban and peri-urban centres and not in camps.
Read moreRebuilding a Life Nearly Lost to Ebola
Abandoned by her husband and shunned by some in her community, 18-year-old Nadej is working to survive and educate about the deadly disease.
Read moreA Family Facing Ebola in a Conflict Zone
In DRC, violence jeopardizes critical medical care amid an urgent outbreak.
Read moreWar and Starvation: stories of women who are struggling to feed their children
These are some of the stories that we come across in the field, and there are many other stories from different parts of Yemen. Every day the situation is getting worse and worse. People are in urgent need of humanitarian aid in order to survive. But this is not a ...
Read moreBringing life saving treatment closer to the people
It’s seven in the morning and Pariang Hospital situated in Ruweng State, South Sudan, is already bristling with activity. At this early hour, the consultation room is full with patients and guardians waiting for their turn to see the hospital’s doctor. Among them is 17-year-old Nyaror Lang, a teenage mother ...
Read moreCommunity Activators: Changing Lives
Across South-Eastern Turkey, CARE has recruited 160 Community Activators – men and women with whom we share information about the law, rights, health and best practice, and train to deliver this information to other Syrians who have also fled war in Syria to find safety in Turkey – in Islahiye, ...
Read moreEchoing women’s voices in Marawi crisis
Marawi used to be a busy and vigorous city where Maranaos (local people from Marawi) harmoniously did business with each other until a bloody siege between the Philippine military forces and the ISIS-affiliated Maute Group struck.
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