Impact stories

Advice from Syrian teens in CARE peer to peer support groups

A ten year old Myanmar refugee in Bangladesh, Roida and her older brother tell their stories

Garcia is 16 years old. In her short life, she has already lived through great pain.

Many of the girls I spoke to who were raped did not complain about the psychological and physical pain they are going through. They try to keep going, try to forget, try to survive.

“You women and girls are inferior human beings. This is God’s will and nothing can be done to change that”, an old man in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) recently said to me.

During my visit to Kasai in the Democratic Republic of Congo, I was visiting a health center in Miabi Heath. I was accompanied by a nurse who was trained by CARE on sexual and reproductive health.

The crisis is not easy to understand and has multiple causes. But what is clear is that people are in urgent need of assistance in this unprecedented humanitarian crisis.

Sophat has been successful in encouraging others to insist on good occupational health and safety at work.

Lantana Abdou had no income of her own. Without money, the family struggled to buy food.