Impact stories

It’s not easy to pack up your whole life and leave a familiar place, but for Chuol the decision was a simple one. During the war, she moved to Khartoum, and when South Sudan gained independence in July 2011 she returned home.

When Aminou Chaibou left his wife and three small children last year to find work in Nigeria, it was with the hopes of earning enough money to help them survive the worsening food crisis gripping Niger. Like millions of others across the country, his…

Sapa Rabiou, 55 years old. 11 children, 30 grandchildren. She cares for her elderly husband and three grandchildren in Serkin Rima village, Maradi, Niger

On July 20th, 2011, the United Nations declared a state of famine in two areas of southern Somalia: the Bakool agropastoral livelihood zones and all areas of Lower Shabelle. Subsequently, four more Somali areas have been declared as a famine. At that…

I still remember the 1st of May 2011. His Excellency Mwai Kibaki, the President of Kenya, declared the ongoing drought a national disaster and called upon donors and well wishers to support the country in that difficult time.

Hunger and water scarcity are perennial in many parts of Somalia, especially among communities trapped in the south’s 20-year old warfare. But in the summer of 2011, images and stories of starving Somali people gained

Like so many places in Haiti, idyllic natural beauty and the harsh reality of deep poverty collide in Tiawa.

In the wake of the Southeast Asia’s worst floods in over a decade, affecting 1.5 million people throughout the region, CARE Cambodia is continuing to assist communities to recover by delivering essential supplies to the country’s worst-affected areas.

Michael is seventeen years old. In March, 2011 he fled Telwon, his home village in Ivory Coast, which is about 100 kilometres from the border with Liberia, when it was attacked by armed militias