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The daily hunt for diapers and sanitary napkins in Gaza
Lack of sanitary pads, essential hygiene items and safe drinking water have turned simple activities into a daily ordeal for women and girls in Gaza.
Read stories showcasing the human impact of CARE's work around the world.
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Lack of sanitary pads, essential hygiene items and safe drinking water have turned simple activities into a daily ordeal for women and girls in Gaza.
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Working on the emergency response to the earthquakes that hit Türkiye and Syria, CARE's Hazal Guvercinci shared the persistent difficulties faced by women and girls and warned for looming health risks in the affected communities.
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The Integrated Humanitarian Assistance Project worked with $5 million in funding to help 309,416 people directly reduce the impacts they were facing from COVID-19 in Sudan.
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Ethiopia is facing the worst drought in the last 40 years. As a result, girls are dropping out of school because they have to walk the whole day to fetch water for their families.
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Persistent absence from school is the major cause of lower achievement and poor progress in secondary education for most girls in Buhera District, Zimbabwe. Statistics show that boys have a higher full-attendance rate than girls. Some girls in Buhera…
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Maria and Ohban are volunteer drivers for a student organization in Ukraine that delivers emergency relief items for people affected by the war.
Currently, 1.4 million children in Somalia are impacted by the drought. CARE helps affected families to ensure that girls like Hamdi, who dreams of becoming a Minister of Education, can go to school.
The village where Asha Mohammed and her eight children live has not even enough drinking water. She described the daily hardship of living without water for her family's most basic needs.
An entire village of pastoralists now relies on one water tank delivery per month to survive - people have lost their livelihoods and are struggling to meet the most basic needs.
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.