CARE International
This is the blog of CARE International, a global humanitarian organisation fighting global poverty. It operates each year in more than 65 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, reaching more than 50 million people in poor communities.
CARE helps tackle underlying causes of poverty so that people can become self-sufficient. It delivers emergency aid to survivors of natural disasters and war and, once the immediate crisis is over, helps people rebuild their lives.
A race against time in Sri Lanka's camps
This blog is written by Melanie Brooks, Communications Coordinator for CARE's Emergency Team. Ms. Brooks has been in Sri Lanka since May 1 working on CARE's emergency response in the IDP camps in Vavuniya for the people displaced by the conflict in Northern Sri Lanka. May 11, 2009 I didn't notice anything different about her, at first; 10-year-old Priyana is a beautiful, perfect little girl, and her face lit up as she smiled at me. ...
Flies, faeces and hand washing
Dr Julia Newton-Howes, CEO CARE Australia, is currently visiting CARE projects in Zimbabwe. Visiting a cholera camp in Zimbabwe can be frightening. Housed in a small, colonial era hospital, temporary barriers of orange plastic netting have been set up everywhere to make sure I have to go through foot dips and hand spraying with chorine solution as I pass through the different parts of the hospital. ...
No safe place in Rafah
Mohammed Joudeh is the safety coordinator on the NGO Safety Project, which provides safety information for aid agencies working in Gaza. Jan. 8, 2009 - 6 pm, local time It's now 6:00 pm, and the streets and neighbourhoods are totally empty of any creature. My neighbourhood has been reduced to rows of abandoned homes with open windows - some windows have been removed, to avoid flying glass if they shatter during a bombing. During the day, there were many air raids that destroyed several homes. Shrapnel fell very close to our home. ...
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