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PAKISTAN Eyes on the ground
“If you want something important done, don’t do it on Christmas Day – everyone will be away,” I remember my buddy joking, while we were bouncing around inside a Series 3 Land Rover on a security training exercise in New Zealand some time ago. Flash forward to Pakistan in August ...
Read morePAKISTAN Another year another flood
Just one year after an unprecedented flood affected 20 million people, new flooding is threatening lives and livelihoods in Pakistan. Sindh, a province in the south of the country, is the worst affected. Nearly one million houses have been damaged, thousands of livestock have been lost and more than five
Read moreKENYA Refugees find safety and security in Dadaab
Janet Ndoti Ndila is a tough lady with a tender heart. She’s the lead counselor at CARE’s drop-in support center at the Dagahaley refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya. Here she offers a trained ear, and a map through the maze of camp bureaucracy, to people who have suffered some of ...
Read moreKENYA Dadaab the worlds largest refugee camp
CARE Emergency Media Relations Officer Niki Clark describes the situation in Dadaab refugee camp, northern Kenya, where nearly 1,500 people are arriving each day.
Read moreKENYA I am now able to plan for my future
The drive to the Galbet Farm in Garissa, Kenya, looks strikingly similar to the land around Dadaab, site of the world’s largest complex of refugee camps. A bit more growth, perhaps, but it, like Dadaab, is dry and barren.
Read moreJAPAN Six months after the tsunami from relief to recovery
Six months after the enormous earthquake and tsunami that resulted in massive destruction in the North of Japan, CARE continues to provide support for communities recovering from the disaster.
Read moreLIBERIA I feel safe
Polou is a 26 year old Ivorian, and a single mother of six young children. She fled Ivory Coast in May and sought refuge in Grand Gedeh, south eastern
Read moreKENYA I am an aid worker and a refugee
Fatuma Adan Mohammed is a CARE Community Development Worker working with CARE’s Prevention of Sexual and Gender-based Violence program in Dagahaley camp, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Kenya, where nearly 100,000 refugees have arrived from Somalia this year alone, fleeing famine, drought and conflict. More than 1,600 refugees work for CARE in ...
Read moreKENYA A picture of strength and perspective
I have just visited Balich Village in Garissa district, North Eastern Province of Kenya. Inhabitants of Balich belong to the Somali-Bantu community, an ethnic minority which is highly marginalized.
Read moreSOMALIA Famine declared in three additional regions
Famine was officially declared in three additional regions of South-Central Somalia, adding even more urgency to CARE’s call for a rapid and ramped-up response from the international community.
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