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JAPAN Impressions from the Tsunami Like looking at an old wartime photo
The CARE Japan advance team left Tokyo at midnight on Thursday and arrived in the Iwate region the next morning. Iwate is one of the prefectures heavily destroyed by a massive earthquake and a tsunami that hit Japan on Friday, March 11. Upon arrival at Kamiashi city the small team ...
Read moreLIBERIA Voices from the ground
These following stories were collected in the Liberian villages of Gblarlay and Theahplay in Nimba County a few kilometres from the border to Cote d’Ivoire on the 24th and 25th of February 2011
Read moreSRI LANKA Empowered women in times of disaster
One week after the floods hit the Polonnaruwa district, thousands flocked with their families to relief centers for food, water and other critical supplies. But in the village of Bogaswewa
Read moreSRI LANKA We lost all our fish
Two years ago CARE came to Urithira’s community when she was struggling to survive as a single mother living in a women headed household of 3 widows and 2 children. Urithira explains “I have no father, my husband went missing because of the war and I don’t know to date ...
Read morePAKISTAN Situation in Sindh
The villagers live in mud houses. Every monsoon, water would enter into the village and in the houses but not more than 2 feet. This time they didn’t even imagine what monsoon was bringing
Read morePAKISTAN Swat six months after the flood
It’s been almost 6 months since the deadly flood water played havoc and left deep marks in the hearts and minds of the whole nation and lives of millions. Affectees are afraid of mere sound of gushing water and still have not recovered. No matter what anyone does for them
Read moreSRI LANKA Hunger haunts the nations rice bowl
Two and a half months ago KD Majjid was a man whose ultimate dream was about to be realized after 10 long painful years. Separated from his wife, Majjid was forced to leave his job as a watchman in a nearby mill in order to take care of his elderly ...
Read moreSUDAN Coming home to the south
As she boarded the bus early in the morning on Jan. 6, many worries flooded through her head for her husband and parents remaining in Khartoum and what she would find in the south since she had no memory of the place, having left there as a child more than ...
Read moreHaiti One year after the earthquake
January 12, 2010 starts out like any other day at the beginning of the year: streets are full of children on their way to school, people going to work, street vendors, cars that fight over each inch of the road. We cross each other without seeing one another: too busy, ...
Read more16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM Stories about gender violence
Read and watch 16 stories from survivors of gender violence during the 2010 international campaign 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence.
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