As the destruction in Tonga is revealed, the international aid organisation CARE has set up a dedicated fund for Australians to donate to support the survivors of Saturday’s volcano eruption and tsunami. CARE Australia’s Director of International Programs and Operations, David Sims, said there was widespread need across Tonga. “People whose homes, crops and water […]
Filipinos face Christmas without homes after Typhoon
December 22, 2021
More than 600,000 people in the Philippines are facing the prospect of spending Christmas in cramped and damp evacuation centres, as the country reels from Super Typhoon Rai (known locally as Odette). With some phone lines still down, roads blocked by landslides and boats destroyed, emergency workers are still discovering the scale of the damage […]
Australia failed our Pacific neighbours at COP
November 12, 2021
Australia’s commitments at the COP26 climate change conference failed our Pacific neighbours and others on the frontlines of climate change, say the aid agencies ActionAid, CARE and Oxfam Australia. Australia’s announcement of $500 million to help Pacific and Southeast Asian nations mitigate and adapt to climate change is a fraction of our fair share, and […]
Afghanistan: equivalent of 1/2 Australia’s population facing hunger
August 31, 2021
As the large-scale evacuation of people from Afghanistan comes to a close, the aid agency CARE is warning that 12.2 million Afghans – the equivalent of around half Australia’s population – are facing acute hunger. Many parts of the country are experiencing drought, made worse by a warm winter with rain and snowfall at half their […]
CARE stands in solidarity with Afghans
August 21, 2021
As the latest chapter unfolds in Afghanistan’s decades-long struggle with conflict, the aid agency CARE is committed to staying in the country and continuing its lifesaving work. CARE has worked alongside communities in Afghanistan since 1961 as a trusted provider of humanitarian assistance. CARE Australia CEO, Peter Walton, says: “throughout our decades working in Afghanistan, CARE’s […]
Haiti: CARE begins distributing aid following earthquake
August 16, 2021
As the death toll from Haiti’s devastating magnitude 7.2 earthquake passes 700, the aid agency CARE has begun distributing tents, water and other essential items. The earthquake has displaced thousands of people from their homes, with the full extent of the damage still unknown. Saturday’s earthquake was stronger than 2010’s magnitude 7 quake which killed […]
