Impact stories

On November 8, Ermalinda Quieros should have been celebrating the birth of her first grandson. Instead she was with her daughter-in-law as she gave birth squatting in the hallway of the overcrowded hospital in Ormoc. Staff at the hospital were…

The United Nations have adopted the International Volunteer Day in 1985. Since then, people around the world recognize the commitment, dedication and impact of individual volunteers and volunteer organizations on the 5th of December. Matthew Sugrue is a…

Hadi stands in front of twenty refugees in CARE’s centre in Zarqa, the industrial centre of Jordan, about half an hour drive from the capital Amman.

Eight vans, three days, thousands of typhoon survivors. That’s the math CARE is looking at for a rapid series of food distributions on the Philippine island of Panay.

When Typhoon Haiyan’s 16-foot storm surge crashed into this seaside neighborhood in Tacloban, a group of 300 neighbors clung to a rope atop a roof. When it was over, only three houses were left standing in the seafront area.

We had a strong house. But during the typhoon, it fell down. We ran out to escape. I was carrying my two children. We ran to a cave. When we got there,

Gabriel Fernandez del Pino is a shelter and reconstruction advisor with CARE International UK who is working as part of CARE’s emergency relief team responding to Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. Mr. del Pino has worked in several large scale disasters…

I am not a lucky man. Since I can remember, my life has been a succession of trials and struggles. Coming from a poor family and having to live one day at a time, never knowing what tomorrow will bring.

Expert Q&A on Typhoon Haiyan Relief: Athena Gepte, age 24, coordinated the first wave of food distributions after Typhoon Haiyan decimated large parts of the island of Leyte in the Philippines. She works for CARE’s local partner ACCORD. Here, she talks…