In the global vaccine debate about who pays for doses, how much they cost, and how to ship them to lower income countries, the world is overlooking the most important factor: Who makes sure people get vaccines?
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15 Minutes on a Global Vaccination Response
In this episode of 15 Minutes to Change the World, we’re talking about a global vaccination response with Julia Anderson, the CEO of CanWaCH—the Canadian Partnership for Women and Children’s Health.
Staying in school and becoming a teacher: Maram’s story
Ten-year-old Maram, who lives with her grandparents in northwest Syria, shares her personal story and her dream of becoming a teacher.
Learning from local women humanitarians responding to gender-based violence
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).
Transforming 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.
15 Minutes on COVID-19 in Vulnerable Communities
On this episode of 15 Minutes to Change the World, we speak with Najeeba Wazefadost and Bárbara Romero, two of the five co-founders of Global Independent Refugee Women Leaders (GIRWL). They share their personal stories as refugees and insights on how COVID-19 is affecting refugee communities and internally displaced persons around the world.
In photos: How COVID-19 is affecting refugees around the world
While everyone around the world continues to cope with the devastating impacts of COVID-19, the risks are heightened for the world’s approximately 71 million people who have been forcibly displaced from their homes.
A ray of hope for refugee women in Uganda
For a group of women tailors located in a village in Uganda’s Bidibidi settlement zone, all has not been lost during the pandemic. Their story is a true reflection of the old adage “every cloud has a silver lining” thanks to CARE and support from UN Women.
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.