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Spotlight on Yemen

CARE’s Karl-Otto Zentel visited Yemen in 2017 and answers five burning questions about the crisis affecting more than 22 million people. To what extent has the situation for Yemenis deteriorated? After another two years of war, the current situation is disastrous. More than 10,000 people have died so far during brutal conflict, and about 17 […]

Donkeys, dignity and dunnies in Dadaab

Good sanitation is important. It prevents children from illnesses like diarrhoea, keeps girls in school and reduces healthcare costs. Fatih is one of over 275,000 inhabitants in Dadaab, the world’s largest refugee camp. She is 30 years old, a mother of one, and is a self-made woman; building latrines on her own. She crossed the […]

Value women’s work

In Cambodia, women working in the construction sector deserve to be seen. They deserve to be recognised and treated fairly. Value women; value women's work. Our colleagues in CARE Cambodia have produced this wonderful film about the Labour Rights for Female Construction Workers project. Funded by the Austrian Development Cooperation and the European Union, it [...]

One year since Cyclone Winston, Fiji is still rebuilding

Scraps of wood, broken bricks and sheets of corrugated iron are piled atop the foundations where family homes once stood. Alumita, a mother of three girls, points to the spot in her former home where she huddled her children during the storm. As the house was crumbling down around them, she used her own body […]

Six things to know about food crises in East Africa

The countries of the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia) are experiencing a severe drought. Families are in urgent need of food and water. “This is no ordinary drought. It’s the worst ever experienced in Sool region since 1974,” an 85-year old man told CARE. Why is there another food crisis happening in East Africa? […]

Stav Zotalis, Country Director at CARE Myanmar

Staff profile As the Country Director of CARE in Myanmar, I am responsible for implementing an ambitious strategy that benefits some of the poorest communities in the country. I oversee a team of more than 300 colleagues in ten offices, who are running projects all over Myanmar, including in conflict-affected areas. My job is to […]

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