Impact stories

CARE International welcomes the report of the High Level Panel (HLP) on the Post 2015 Development Agenda and is particularly encouraged by the ambition to end, not just reduce

Uringi Sam Abott has been a refugee for almost two decades. Now, working closely with CARE, he is a leader in the Ifo refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya helping to distribute food to fellow refugees.

A native of Calgary, Alberta, Rod Volway is CARE’s director of refugee operations in Dadaab, Kenya where he oversees programming that reaches more than 260,000 refugees.

After a one hour drive on tortuous roads outside of Dame Marie, I finally reach “Nan Sapou.”, a commune of Grande-Anse. Coming out of the car, I am greeted by a vivacious young woman that immediately reminds me of a bee, buzzing back and forth; she can’t…

“There are times I would give my remaining 10 Gourdes (0.20 USD) to my children, then go to church all day and tell myself I was fasting; it helped me cope with the hunger.”

CARE Kenya recently had the pleasure of hosting first-time Senator, Naisula Lesuuda, at our Group Savings and Loans Banking on Change project in Embu. Senator Lesuuda has also been invited by CARE Germany to attend a conference in Bonn in June 2013, with…

In my 11 years as a fundraiser with CARE, I have been involved in humanitarian emergency responses of large magnitude, including the Tsunami, the Pakistan floods, the Haiti earthquake

How long have you been working in the field of emergency operations and which crises have you responded to? I have worked in emergency operations for nearly 20 years, initially with CARE UK in London seeking funding and monitoring emergency projects

Most Syrian refugees fleeing their bloodied country cross the borders to neighbouring countries by bus, by car, by foot. In Mahmoud’s case it was by ambulance.