CARE’s Zainab Moallin spoke with the Arab Women Organization of Jordan (AWO Jordan), a women-led organization that partners with CARE, to understand what we can learn from women-led organizations as they navigate the impacts of the coronavirus in their humanitarian contexts and take steps to support vulnerable women and girls at risk of gender-based violence (GBV).
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Meet Rehema: A Congolese refugee, survivor, and women’s advocate
Rehema lives in Uganda and draws on her personal experiences to support refugee survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.
15 Minutes on Canadian Charities in 2020
In this episode of 15 Minutes to Change the World, we’ll discuss how Canadians can support charities and how charities themselves can weather the challenges of this new era. Our guest today is Marina Glogovac, president and CEO of CanadaHelps.
This Giving Tuesday, I’m thinking about gratitude
On Tuesday, we have the opportunity to celebrate what makes us most human — the caring and the humanity we share. Just as it did 75 years ago, the world needs CARE today, perhaps more so than ever.
15 Minutes on Climate Action and Climate Justice
Our guest today is Catherine Abreu, an internationally recognized, award-winning campaigner whose work centers on building powerful coalitions to advance transformative action on climate change. Catherine is the Executive Director of Climate Action Network Canada, Canada’s primary network of more than 100 organizations working on climate change and energy issues from coast to coast to coast.
Stories of shock and survival: Three months after the Beirut explosion
Three months after the explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, CARE Canada’s Ramzi Saliba reflects on his deployment there: how it personally affected him being from Lebanon, the complexities of compounding emergencies happening all together, CARE’s response, and the incomprehensible impact on the people.
Return from Lebanon: Three months after the Beirut explosion
CARE Canada Humanitarian Program Manager Ramzi Saliba reflects on his deployment to Beirut, Lebanon following the massive explosion that devastated the city on August 4, 2020.
Preventing a COVID catastrophe in Bangladesh
Cox’s Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh is home to around one million Rohingya refugees, living in close proximity to each other. These are ideal conditions for the spread of coronavirus. Ram Das, Deputy Country Director at CARE Bangladesh, explains how a well-coordinated humanitarian response has prevented a COVID catastrophe.
Yemen conflict, hunger and now COVID-19
Yemen is a country already battered by conflict, hunger and flooding. Suha Basharen describes how CARE is responding to the intersecting of needs of a complex emergency.