Archive for February 2016
Serving tea in South Sudan: Mary’s story
By Mawa Seme, Program Officer, CARE South Sudan The sun is scorching hot, with temperatures reaching 35 degrees Celsius in the town of Pagak, Upper Nile State in South Sudan. A crowd of women and men is patiently waiting to be served the traditional South Sudanese spiced tea and coffee common to the area. In…
Read MoreFive reasons we should all care about gender equality
ShareTweetShareEmail Five reasons we should all care about gender equality Women are disproportionately affected by poverty. They are also the key to overcoming it. Want to find out how gender equality breaks the cycle of poverty? Here are five great reasons why we should all get behind empowering women and girls: See why and how…
Read MoreA mother’s anguish: Rita’s story
When the first earthquake struck Nepal in April 2015, 25 year-old Rita dug out her one month old newborn from the rubble but was not able to save her 4 year-old daughter. Today Rita lives out of her plastic greenhouse where her family dries nettles. Her village was higher up, making it more susceptible to…
Read MoreEl Niño: Ethiopian families on the brink
In the northeast of Ethiopia, a mother of four prepared a meal for her children with the very last sorghum grains she had left. These seeds were supposed to be planted for the next harvest. The El Niño weather system has caused an extreme drought in Ethiopia. Crops have failed completely in large areas of…
Read MoreEthiopia: In eight weeks millions of Ethiopians will have no food if funding gap persists
Ethiopia is now firmly in the epicentre of the global El Niño crisis, with widespread drought severely impacting large swathes of the north, central and eastern highlands. With a gap in the supply fast approaching, over 10 million people are at risk of going without food by April. CARE International today classified Ethiopia as Type…
Read MoreYemen crisis: Risking your life for water
By Lucy Beck, Emergency Response Specialist at CARE Even before the conflict started, collecting water was a risky business. Most water points in the area consist of little more than open wells and it was not uncommon that women or children would fall down them while trying to collect water, injuring themselves, or even worse,…
Read MoreYemen crisis: Katiba’s story
Despite the constant bombings, fighting, hunger and other difficulties, most Yemenis continue to stay in their homeland. Just over 170,000 of the estimated 22 million in dire humanitarian situations have fled to neighbouring countries. The vast majority stay on in their towns and villages, or have been forced to move to other parts of the…
Read MoreEl Niño drought: Kimiya’s story
The El Niño weather system has caused an extreme drought in Ethiopia. Crops have failed completely in large areas of the country, and more than 10 million people depend on food assistance from the government and aid agencies like CARE. Kimiya Amedu is one of them. Kimiya is a 26 year-old mother of two and…
Read MoreCatastrophic Cyclone Winston tearing through Fiji, CARE ready to respond
CARE is ready to respond to severe Tropical Cyclone Winston after the storm was upgraded to category five, triggering evacuations across Fiji’s main island Viti-Levu. The storm, believed to be one of the largest in the country’s history, is packing winds of up to 220 kilometres per hour and is expected to cause flash flooding…
Read MoreSeeing a Difference: Improving Maternal Health in Tanzania
As part of our efforts to better understand the impact of our projects, CARE’s monitoring and evaluation teams regularly interview various community members. Below are a few short snippets we are happy to share from women and men seeing a difference from our TABASAM maternal and child health project in Tanzania. Saidi Kidatula A husband…
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