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“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 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 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 ...
Read moreNine on the Ninth: Hopes and Fears for the World’s Newest Nation As South Sudan Marks Ninth Anniversary of Independence
When South Sudan was celebrating its independence nine years ago, *Grace was months away from having her first child after an unexpected pregnancy that meant she had to leave her family home and get married to a boyfriend she had known at school.
Read moreThe Mountain Climb: Faced with poverty, displacement and loss one woman continues to walk on
Khonaf Saido Abdullah is 54-year-old Yazidi mother of 7 from Sinjar, Iraq where she was living with her young children and disabled husband in a small rental property. They worked as farm labourers to get a small income, but she still did not have enough money to be able to ...
Read moreAn unequal emergency: Venezuelan women at risk of COVID-19 exploitation / Una emergencia desigual: mujeres venezolanas en riesgo de explotación por COVID-19
The biggest human mobility crisis in the Americas has a particularly serious impact on the lives of Venezuelan women, children and LGBTQI+ people. In a recent CARE rapid gender analysis (RGA) of the refugee and migrant crisis, findings show that the pandemic is ending livelihoods, transport and shelter for Venezuelans, ...
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