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The water has stolen everything

By Thomas Schwarz When we started early this morning from Islamabad, I didn’t know what would be awaiting me in the region of Mardan. I had seen many reports on TV, read the papers, listened to the radio and spoken with my CARE colleagues. The whole weekend I had met UN representatives as well as […]

Is this what we prayed for?

By Jamshed Naseer, Security Officer for CARE in Pakistan, who witnessed the devastation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. 27 July. It started off like any other summer day. The sun was shining bright and our enthusiastic team of five set off to visit Swat, a hot spot for tourists once upon a time, not long ago. […]

Food for thought in Cambodia

By Amelia Poxon, CARE Australia Communications Officer Today, I met five mothers from Srae Angkrong Commune in Cambodia’s north-east. We sat around a table in the communal area of their small village, which boasts a colourful pagoda for Buddhist prayer, a meeting house and a playground. The topic of our conversation? Cabbages and classrooms. […]

Six months on

On Tuesday 12 January, six months ago today, Haiti was struck by one of the modern world’s worst disasters. A 7.0 earthquake collapsed buildings across the city of Port-au-Prince, killing over 220,000 people and leaving tens of thousands injured. Three million people were affected and as many as 1.5 million men, women and children were displaced […]

Cycling from Vietnam to Cambodia with CARE

Seven women from Australia are currently participating in CARE’s I am powerful cycle challenge from Vietnam to Cambodia. Participants will visit CARE projects and hear first-hand from the communities about how CARE is empowering women and helping to overcome global poverty. Belinda from Inspired Adventures is sending regular updates on how the group are going and what a CARE challenge is […]

Eyewitness account: Everything is urgent

Sophie Perez, CARE’s Country Director in Haiti, was in the CARE office in Port-au-Prince when the earthquake hit at about 5 p.m. local time Jan. 12, 2010. We reached her by phone at 6.30 a.m. local time January 13. It was terrifying. The quake lasted for more than a minute. We were at the […]

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