Emergencies and resilience
We are having a global food crisis and women are feeling its impacts the most
From increased unpaid labor to gender-based lockdown restrictions, women and girls are disproportionately impacted during the ongoing global food crisis.
Read More“I still have hope”: Overcoming unemployment during COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has eliminated 277 billion hours of paid work as of June 30, the equivalent of 400 million full-time jobs. Unlike previous economic crises, those job losses are hitting women the hardest.
Read MoreTransforming COVID responses: Finding new ways to change the world
COVID-19 has forced us all to change in ways we never imagined. For CARE, it has transformed the way we work in every country and every project. Those changes can show us how to build a better world, and how to build a better CARE.
Read MoreCultivating hope: Palestinian Women Coping with COVID-19
See how Bayan Farraj, a married mother of three children from Ramallah in the West Bank, was able to fulfil her passion to run her own business, with support from CARE’s OBADER project.
Read MoreImproving education in Yemen through community dialogue
The education sector in Yemen has been badly affected by teachers’ absences, and school hours were reduced even before COVID-19. CARE is supporting schools in Yemen with awareness-raising programs and facilitates community dialogue as a part of the response to improve the education system and to support students to return to school.
Read MoreLebanon Crisis: Canada matches $8 million in donations made by Canadians
Since the explosions on August 4 that rocked the port city of Beirut, Canadians have been uniting their efforts to raise funds in order to provide emergency assistance to affected populations.
Read MoreCOVID-19 and extreme weather events threaten to roll back gains in Rohingya camps despite early success in tackling the virus
COVID-19 threatens to roll back gains made on nutrition in the camps as access to food supplies, income and diverse diets become more limited.
Read MoreOne thousand days of hope and courage: Rohingya refugees still at crossroads
In 2017, hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas fled Myanmar to settle in the Cox’s Bazar region of Bangladesh. Close to a million, the Rohingyas have been waiting for three years, for justice, to have their rights back, and to return home.
Read MoreIn profile: CARE’s Gabriela María Portillo Rodríguez
Meet Gabriela who is part of the humanitarian response to COVID-19 in Honduras with CARE in the Prolempa Project.
Read MoreJust trying to survive: Syrian migrant workers in Beirut after the explosions
Migrant workers, as well as refugees and domestic workers were already some of the most vulnerable to Lebanon’s economic crisis before the blast. Their situation is only likely to worsen now, with their places of employment and means of making a living destroyed, and for many their homes also affected.
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