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Danilo Manzano, Dialogo Diverso’s director in Quito, Ecuador

See how an incredible community organization in Quito, Ecuador is providing counseling, workshops and support to LGBTQ migrants and refugees.

For those of us in Canada who are grateful for the safety and protection of home, it’s time to fuel the resilience and leadership of the women and girls facing COVID-19 without a safe place of their own. This is the time to show you CARE.

CARE has been producing and distributing Lafaek educational magazines to students since 1999, and they now go to every school in Timor-Leste. With schools now closed, children have taken the magazines home to use them as teaching and learning tools with their parents.

We all need courage and patience to get us through the pandemic. All around the world, CARE teams and the people you support have been rising to the challenge. And they are adding one more critical ingredient: creativity.

Young boys and girls displaying contents of CARE food package in Europe. July 1948.

Unfortunately, history does tend to repeat itself. But it also provides us with the opportunity to repeat the good and the kind. There’s a CARE Package® needed for many parts of the world—and we are all in a position to give it.

Throughout the pandemic, CARE teams and the people we serve have been rising to the challenge by being creative. Around the world, people are using CARE programs to find ways to respond in the hardest circumstances.

Hand washing demonstration in Bangladesh

Although men and the elderly are said to be at higher risk of severe illness due to COVID-19, women and girls living in poverty and amid humanitarian crises face unique challenges.

CARE staff fill vans with food parcels and hygiene items, in partnership with Lebanese NGO Sanabel al-Nour. CARE distributed food and hygiene packages to 300 vulnerable families in Tripoli, Northern Lebanon.

As the world stays indoors, and individuals around the globe come together in a historical moment of solidarity to stop the spread of COVID-19, for many of the world’s most vulnerable people; lock downs, border restrictions and limitations on movement pose life-threatening challenges.

CARE is no stranger to deadly diseases. From our 75 years of experience in emergency response, we’ve learned a lot that can be applied to the COVID-19 pandemic that is affecting each and every one of us around the world today.