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A Look at How Refugees Around the World Are Living During COVID-19
From Venezuelan migrants in Ecuador to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, this photo essay gives a glimpse into how displaced people are coping amid a pandemic.
Read more5 Min Inspiration: Women finding ways through food crisis
In Ghana, they call them “market queens”—women traders who have the connections and influence to organize women, adjust market prices, and influence trading patterns in their area. Faced with government shutdowns in local markets to stop the spread of COVID19, these women found ways to organize social distancing and keep ...
Read moreNormal life in abnormal times: Living in Dadaab refugee camp during a pandemic
25 year old Muridi Zuberi is the first born of seven children, originally from Lower Juba, Somalia. He first arrived in Kenya in 2004 with his uncle. Muridi is married with a one and half month old baby.
Read moreWhy home-based humanitarianism can only take us so far
As the world stays indoors, and individuals around the globe come together in a historical moment of solidarity to stop the spread of COVID-19, for many of the world’s most vulnerable people; lock downs, border restrictions and limitations on movement pose life threatening challenges.
Read moreSwaying between a financial crisis and the coronavirus, Tripoli plunges into the abyss
In the winding alleys of Bab al-Tabbaneh’s vegetable market, in Tripoli, one could quickly slip into amnesia and become utterly oblivious of the Government of Lebanon’s enforced lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Read moreCreativity needed for the challenge of a Global Crisis
CARE teams and the people we serve have been rising to the challenge. They are adding one more critical ingredient: creativity.
Read moreHow CARE is responding to the ‘Invisible Pandemic’ behind COVID-19
In the midst of the global pandemic, there lies what the UN Secretary General describes as the ‘Invisible Pandemic” – Gender Based Violence, or GBV.
Read more5 Reasons Why Women and Girls Are Particularly Vulnerable to COVID-19
Although men and the elderly are said to be at higher risk of severe illness due to COVID-19, women and girls living in poverty and amid humanitarian crises face unique challenges.
Read more“Yemen 5 years on… it is our fate to be constantly displaced”
“Yemen 5 years on… it is our fate to be constantly displaced”
Read moreThis Nurse is Fighting Coronavirus in Sierra Leone
Rosaline, a nurse from Sierra Leone who was involved in the Ebola response, and now in the COVID-19 supported response by CARE shares her fears and learnings
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