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CARE launches appeal following Indonesia tsunami

CARE Australia has launched an appeal and is urging for donations to assist their on the ground efforts on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, which was hit by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake, prompting a massive tsunami on September 29. More than 830 people are already confirmed dead, and thousands more injured, statistics that will […]

Australia helping to keep refugee children in school in Jordan

CARE Australia is thrilled by the Department of Home Affairs’ decision to increase funding to assist the refugee crisis in Jordan. It will help some of the world’s most vulnerable people to lift themselves out of poverty. Since the war in Syria started in 2011, more than 655,000 Syrians have fled to safety in neighbouring […]

Three years of conflict in Yemen

Hind Abbas is a Communication Assistant for CARE International Yemen. Here she shares her experiences over the three years of war in her country. March 26,2015, was the day that war began and the lives of millions of Yemenis was forever altered. As aircraft filled the skies over what is considered the Middle East’s poorest […]

“The last seven years feel like twenty…”

A quarter of Syria’s pre-war population has fled the country. Inside the country more than 6 million people are homeless. Hundreds of thousands are living under siege. “For millions of men, women and children the past seven years have meant losing their home, moving from one place to the other in search of safety, sometimes […]

Larke Riemer awarded AO in 2018

CARE Australia is delighted our Board member Larke Riemer has been appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia in the General Division. Larke is a leader in the financial sector, with a strong record of pushing for a better outcome for women in the economy. She received the award for distinguished service to […]

CARE increases aid to Syrians fleeing fighting in Idlib

We have urgently started increasing distributions of aid to Syrian families who have been displaced by ongoing fighting in the Northern governorate of Idlib and aim to reach 25,000 people with emergency help. Since the beginning of January, more than 100,000 people, most of whom have been repeatedly displaced by conflict, have fled Southern Idlib […]

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