South Sudan continues to be one of the deadliest places to be an aid worker, according to analysis done by CARE on data from the Humanitarian Outcomes Aid Worker Security Database. Forty-four aid workers have lost their lives globally since the beginning of this year, including 11 in South Sudan, 8 in Afghanistan and 7 in Myanmar.
By Tessa Bolton, CARE...
Refugee and displacement crises across Venezuela and neighboring countries, the Central Sahel, Syria, South Sudan, and Democratic Republic of Congo receive shockingly low support from the international community in the first 6 months of 2022. CARE calls on donor states not to forget these displacement crises and to increase financial aid immediately.
More than 6.5 million people have fled Ukraine due to the war. CARE and its partners are responding with much-needed cash assistance, food, and shelter.
Millions of people are in urgent need of humanitarian aid.
Our guest today is Andrea Gunraj, Vice President of Public Engagement with the Canadian Women’s Foundation, who discusses the #SignalForHelp hand sign/campaign which recently went viral, and how we can all support those who have experienced gender based violence and work together to prevent it.
Dissatisfied with the way women’s issues took a back seat in her community, Sylvie ran for office—and won. She became chief of Kibimba in 2020, a hill community in Burundi.
Meet Dhikryat: an inspiring entrepreneur in Yemen running a woman-operated taxi service to provide safe transportation for other women.
Concerned that women had to trek nearly 10km to the nearest food distribution point, Halatu, a South Sudanese refugee and her women’s group in the Omugo refugee settlement in Uganda, helped to organize a peaceful boycott to successfully advocate for the food distribution point to be moved closer to the community.
