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A 13-year-old Syrian boy hears for the first time

What’s the best present you’ve ever received? For 13-year-old Abdulkader, it was the gift of hearing. Generous donors like you are helping support our partners Syria Relief to fit displaced children from Aleppo and Idlib with hearing aids — a simple, practical, yet life-changing gift. You can watch the moment Abdulkader’s life changed below. Thank you to everyone who [...]

She didn’t have much but lost it all: the heartbreaking story of a conflict survivor in Ethiopia

No country saw more people flee their homes because of conflict in 2018 than Ethiopia. In just six months, 1.4 million people lost their homes to violence. Almaz (40) recalls the heartbreaking moments her life changed forever when the fighting came to her village. “It was evening when all of a sudden we heard gunshots […]

Rebuilding a life nearly lost to Ebola

By the end of 2018, nearly 500 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had contracted Ebola, with more than half of them dying from it. Many of the survivors are ostracised because of fear of contamination. 18-year-old Nadej is one of them; abandoned by her husband and shunned by her community, she […]

“My daughters freeze at night.” – on the brink of famine in Yemen

Across the besieged country of Yemen, millions of families are freezing, starving, and homeless. Najla (4) used to live in the warm, sunny, port city of Hodeidah in Yemen with her little sister (2) and her mother. Her father has passed away. In June 2018, as fighting reached Hodeidah, they were forced to flee to […]

It’s an election year, people – we haven’t got time for outrage

Happy New Year, everyone. I hope you are taking the opportunity to rest up and relax. Because if we thought 2018 was a difficult and disturbing year, 2019 is shaping up to be even bigger. It looks like Australia will have one of the most savage and partisan federal elections in generations. Of course, the […]

See the most stunning images from 2018

As we say farewell to 2018, here are five photos of some of the amazing people your support has made a difference to. We asked our photographers to submit their favourite images from the work they saw CARE implementing this year. They are all striking, moving, and proof of the difference your support makes. Thank […]

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