Impact stories

Emiline, 39, is a married Syrian mother of three. When she fled from Syria to Jordan in 2012 with her husband and children, she found herself trapped inside four walls. She was too afraid to leave her home, and wouldn’t let her children leave either…

Interview with Dua’a Naji (26), Community Development Officer at CARE Jordan.

For the past eight years I have worked in media and communications, aiming to raise awareness of the plight of refugees and people affected by humanitarian crises. My job usually involves interviewing people, writing about their challenges and depicting…

On December 18, 2017, at about 10 am, Dr. M began his usual rounds. This time was peak hour for the hospital, in a region where health facilities were scarce.

Najlaa , 27, tells her story while sweeping the concrete floor of her two-room home in Kilis, Southern Turkey.

Back in Syria, Rana and her husband were successful lawyers. Four years after fleeing to Jordan, Rana has become a member of CARE's Women Leadership Council, which she uses as a platform for raising awareness on child marriage, gender-based violence, and…

Ali, 42, is a cattle merchant. He used to own farms, machines and water wells in Syria, but his story is that of displacement, like millions of others. Ali said goodbye to his town in Dara’a in Southern Syria, after he lost everything he owned to the…

Amani* is from a small town in Eastern Ghouta, where all the houses were flattened to the ground. Life was unbearable. Amani left her husband there to look for a place to protect her children from the airstrikes. She finally settled in a camp set on…

Um Mohammed, 46, lost her husband in an airstrike in Hama, and her house was destroyed. She moved with her son Mohammed, his children -- Aisha, 7, Ghousson, 5, and Mohammed, 3 -- her daughter and 4-year-old granddaughter to a small village in the…