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.
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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.
Everyone stays at home. I am staying in Iraq
Shanti Chirayath is a CARE aid worker from Bonn, Germany. When the COVID-19 pandemic led to travel restrictions worldwide, she decided not to return to her home country and stay in Iraq.
World Menstrual Hygiene Day: Safe. Proud. Period.
CARE’s Reshma Khan shares her thoughts and experiences on World Menstrual Hygiene Day.
Heroes are made in times of crisis: CARE Bangladesh colleagues lead the way
Ram Das, CARE Bangaldesh Deputy Country Director, Humanitarian Response, acknowledges the spirit that inspires humanitarian work around the world and pays tribute to humanitarian colleagues in CARE Bangladesh Cox’s Bazar—home of the largest refugee camp in the world today.
Flattening the curve, and building a global community
With planes grounded and borders closing, it’s easy to feel farther apart than ever, but this crisis should remind us of just the opposite: we’re a global community, and now more than ever, we all need each other.