Impact stories

We can't achieve climate justice without gender justice.That means that addressing the root causes of the climate emergency will require the engagement of men and boys as actors with agency working alongside women allies.

Maryam Imtiaz is a Communications Assistant at CARE Pakistan. In 2022, she worked closely in the response to the floods that left nearly one-third of the country underwater and impacted over 30 million people. She shares with us her experience.

Mable and her neighbors are already feeling the bitter consequences of the climate crisis. In response, CARE has launched a climate project with the community to provide farmers with long-term and sustainable solutions.

In this camp of displaced people in southern Zambia no one is forgotten. They share their food. They cook for each other. They support each other. They have become a community. A big family. They survive all together.

Buumba Chilimba, 45, mother of seven, is a small-scale farmer in southern Zambia who has been struggling with the extreme weather events caused by climate change.

In Zambia, people are increasingly exposed to the consequences of extreme weather. Rainfall is heavier, the duration of rainy seasons is reducing, and dams are breaking regularly.

“The house was flooded one day and started tilting, I heard the plates crashing to the ground first. In the night it collapsed,” remembers Fenni.

In Zambia, people such as Chuma and her grandchildren are feeling the consequences of the climate crisis brutally and clearly: the dry seasons are getting longer, the soil is drying out. Between January and March of 2023, almost 375,000 people were…

36-year-old Saruro, arrived in the Dadaab refugee camp when she was just 3-years-old. With dwindling funding and extreme weather straining already dire conditions for refugees like Saruro, CARE calls upon the international community to support refugees…