Syria's European widows: Maysa'a's story
34 year old Maysa’a’s husband left for Germany while her parents are far away in Egypt. She is too scared to go out alone so her only regular human contact is with her neighbour.
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34 year old Maysa’a’s husband left for Germany while her parents are far away in Egypt. She is too scared to go out alone so her only regular human contact is with her neighbour.
“We were lucky not to lose Yaman*,” says Mayyada* of her eldest son. “He was taking care of his grandfather when a bomb fell next to the room where he had just stepped, destroying the ceiling and walls next door. It was a matter of seconds. Until today,…
Women sellling fish in Egypt banded together to get more representation in the Fisherman’s Union—a board that hadn’t had women before. Find out how.
“We fled our home because we had nothing left.” Shifaa’, 46, remembers only too well her family’s experience of the Syrian conflict in their hometown near Dar’a, in southern Syria.
I can only hope the situation will not be as bad as last year. Last winter, it was freezing cold. Even the weather did not have mercy with us. Every few days, we faced another winter storm. Each time, when we felt the roughest weather had past, a new…
Decades after fleeing their home country, more than 30,000 Somalis returned home from Yemen. They are fleeing yet another war.
This week, the CEO and Secretary General of CARE International, Dr Wolfgang Jamann, is at the 2016 World Economic Forum in Davos. Here, he will be discussing with business leaders and politicians from around the world the impact of the fourth industrial…
Small talk can be difficult with someone who lives in Yemen. Questions about family often turn to dead relatives. Talk about a bad night’s sleep and you might find yourself in a conversation about nightly bombing raids. Such was the case last month in…
Many refugees have dubbed the journey to Europe as the ‘Death Road’ due to its perilous nature and high mortality rates, especially at sea. Despite this, thousands continue to make the trip with over 3,500 people this year already having lost their lives…
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