By Tessa Bolton, CARE...
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World Refugee Day 2022: Shockingly low levels of humanitarian aid funding for displaced people around the world
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.
Photos: CARE and partners in Poland welcome Ukrainian refugees
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.
Humanitarian Crisis in Ukraine: CARE Provides Emergency Assistance Funding
Millions of people are in urgent need of humanitarian aid.
15 Minutes on Preventing Gender Based Violence
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.
Meet the Burundian Chief Tackling Violence Against Women
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.
Take the wheel and drive your life to success: Dhikryat’s story
Meet Dhikryat: an inspiring entrepreneur in Yemen running a woman-operated taxi service to provide safe transportation for other women.
“I can help women raise their voices”: Halatu’s story
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.
Marking World Refugee Day: “Despite the dark realities of daily life, displaced women—as they so often do—are rising”
Sofia Sprechmann Sineiro, Secretary General of CARE International, shares her thoughts on World Refugee Day about the incredible power of women leadership in crisis contexts.