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.
Super-typhoon causes fear and panic in Philippines
Celso Dulce is CARE's Project Representative in the Philippines, and he is leading CARE's emergency response to Typhoon Ketsana in Manila. Celso is from Manila. Oct. 2, 2009 It started to rain a few hours ago, and it's dark. Today we were supporting the government order to evacuate people from high-risk areas as a precautionary measure. I just returned from securing the warehouses for relief distribution, because the goods might be damaged. Another storm is coming. We don't know how bad, but the rain is getting harder. ...
Aid dilemmas in Pakistan
Rick Perera, CARE International in Pakistan ISLAMABAD - It's frustrating to sit in an air-conditioned office while 150 kilometers away people are crowded dozens to a room in the simple homes of generous but poor compatriots. To sleep in a comfortable bed while families lie under open skies for lack of shelter, their children kept awake all night by mosquito bites. I know CARE and other humanitarian agencies are doing everything in our power to get help to Pakistan's millions of internally displaced persons (IDPs), but it still seems like too little, too slow. ...
Pakistan: Host families' kindness an example to us all
By Rick Perera, a member of CARE International's Emergency Reponse Team in Pakistan No one deserves to be driven from home by conflict, but somehow the plight of displaced people in Pakistan seems particularly unjust. The horror of mass population flight runs deep in this country's psyche, given the trauma of partition that accompanied its creation. In 1947, as the former British India was divided into what today are India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, as many as 12.5 million people fled their homes in one of the largest population movements in history, amid bloodshed and ethnic strife. ...
Cars, trains and refugees: a visit to Mardan, Pakistan
This blog is written by Thomas Schwarz, director of media for CARE Germany, who recently visited Pakistan Today I visited a place close to Mardan, where tens of thousands took refuge from the ongoing fighting in Dir, Buner and the village of Swat. Their overall situation is horrible. Alongside the national road N45 more than 100 families are living without shelter on an area of less than five kilometres. ...
Families squeezed into small spaces in Pakistan
This blog is written by Zahoor Ahmed who works for Saibaan Development Organization, a local NGO working in the areas affected by the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan's North West Frontier. Saibaan is one of CARE International's partner organizations in Mansehra District, and is providing relief to those displaced by the fighting in Swat and Buner. It was a heart-breaking experience to witness the extremely miserable conditions faced by people displaced by fighting in Swat trying to seek shelter at Mansehra. It seemed like an action replay of the 2005 earthquake and the crumbled faces of these people had uncountable stories of misery, sorrow and grief. ...
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