CARE is working with partners to deliver emergency supplies to thousands of people in Syria. Photo © CARE.

Sonja Meyer, CARE’s Partnership Manager, shares her praise and concerns for our humanitarian partners in Syria. The heinous attack against a UN humanitarian aid convoy near Aleppo shocked the world. It is a sad manifestation of the great danger humanitarian workers are facing in Syria today: caught between the frontlines,…

Klem, with her two sons (six and four). Photo by Nicole Cairns/CARE

Children from ethnic minorities in Cambodia once struggled because of language barriers. Multilingual education is changing that. Klem is an exceptional person. She is full of goodness and determination despite the constant challenges she has faced in her life. She lives in a remote area of Ratanak Kiri, the far north-east province…

Damac, 40 (left) and Habibo, 35 (right), started their clothing shop after joining a VSLA is Somalia. Photo © Wanjiru Wambugu/CARE

Damac, a 40-year-old mother of eight, and Habibo, a 35-year-old mother of nine, are members of CARE’s Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) in Somalia. Just a few years ago, they could barely make ends meet. Now, thanks to CARE’s VSLA program, their future looks promising. Introduced to Somalia…

CARE volunteer Rita in Mozambique. Photo by Johanna Mitscherlich/CARE

Rita is a community volunteer with CARE in Mozambique. At 43, she teaches women about health and nutrition, whilst also looking after her own daughters and grandchildren. The worst drought in 35 years is affecting rural communities across Mozambique, with many suffering from a lack of food and water. Community…

CARE welcomes the announcement of a ceasefire brokered by the US and Russia that came into effect at sunset on Monday, the beginning of the important Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha. The desperately needed pause in fighting offers a glimpse of hope for hundreds of thousands of people in besieged…

Meet Alida Gyory, who uses cycling to help break the cycle of poverty. She’s over 3,000km into her trip from the Balkans to Britain, and we had the opportunity to speak to her about why she’s doing it. If you think spin classes are tough, try riding a bike through…

Amira*, 5, is one of almost 15,000 people in one of the largest camps for displaced persons in northern Iraq. Photo © Mary Kate MacIsaac/CARE

John Watt, CARE’s Country Director in Northern Iraq describes CARE’s current preparations to help people who might flee once fighting for Mosul intensifies. Photo © Marie Pieper/CARE What is the humanitarian situation in Iraq? Currently, there are 3.3 million people in Iraq who were forced to leave their homes…

By Sabine Wilke. Originally published in the Daily Telegraph 8 September 2016. It’s a year since the image of three-year-old Alan Kurdi’s lifeless body made global headlines. Alone on a Turkish beach, the small boy was four-and-a-half kilometres short of his destination: the Greek island of Kos. Four-and-a-half kilometres from…