Impact stories

Christmas is approaching and people around the world are preparing to celebrate with friends and family. In my home country Jordan, where I recently returned to as Country Director for the humanitarian aid organisation CARE, Christmas is also a time to…

CARE is deeply concerned about the violence in South Sudan, and calls all those involved to end the fighting and ensure the protection of civilians.

On a basketball court next to an elementary school badly damaged by typhoon Yolanda, Josephine Blanco (38) waits with more than 200 people in line to receive a food packet from CARE and its local partner organization, Accord. A few weeks earlier, she had…

The tragedy of typhoon Haiyan inspired a worldwide burst of generosity. Images of human suffering bring out an enormous will to help across borders and continents. It is a beautiful feature of our shared humanity.

When I arrived in the area devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan almost a month after the disaster, everywhere I looked I saw houses with roofs blown off, fallen coconut trees and power lines twisted at funny angles

Ali Jama is a father of 7 children, living near the sea shore of Gabac village; he has no food to feed his children due to damage caused by the cyclone to his boats and fishing gear which was the main source of livelihood he had.

What is the situation like now in the communities you visited on Leyte and Samar islands? In spite of the massive devastation from the typhoon a month ago, we are seeing an incredible amount of resiliency and activity. The local population is very busy

25 year-old Faduma Ahmed Mohamed was with her family at her home in Tabin village when the cyclone hit. She recounts the loss of almost 450 goats.

The tropical cyclone leaves a trail of devastation in its wake at Banhaar, 6km away from Qarxis village of Eyl District My visit to the hard-hit tropical