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Each winter, floods damage homes, fields, and communities in northern Lebanon. Families with little to begin with are forced to start rebuilding their lives as soon as the floods recede. This year, with the rainy season weeks away, residents and CARE Lebanon are working together to prepare before the water comes. care.org/news-and-stories/no…

Repeated displacement, failed harvests, rising food prices, conflict and disease are making it increasingly difficult for people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to feed their children, earn a living and rebuild their lives. The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis shows that 28.8 million people are currently facing acute food insecurity. Read more: care.org/media-and-press/new…

Child marriage is a human rights violation, and it’s still happening to one in five girls worldwide. It ends their schooling, narrows their choices, and puts their health and safety at risk. At CARE, we work with girls, boys, families, and community leaders to change the drivers of child marriage and open up new paths for girls.

#Haiti: "When we say people are facing crisis levels of hunger, we are talking about families who can’t reliably put enough food on the table, who are skipping meals, selling what little they own, or going into debt just to eat. As a result, the most vulnerable people such as children, as well as pregnant and lactating women, are growing weaker and sicker." - Dianna Darsney, CARE’s Global Humanitarian Director. care.org/media-and-press/new…

Thank you, Dolores Huerta, for seven decades of organizing for farmworkers, for women, and for everyone who was told their voice didn’t count. Sí se puede ✊

Somalia narrowly avoided famine during its most recent major drought, but many of the health centers, food assistance, and nutrition programs that helped prevent it have since closed. Now, forecasters warn that El Niño flooding in the coming months could push the country’s hardest-hit communities toward famine. care.org/news-and-stories/so…

The price of cooking gas has more than quadrupled in #Yemen. The September escalation of the war has pushed families into sites already strained by years of war. CARE’s assessments in Taiz governorate found that adults and children were already reducing meal portions and eating less frequently to preserve what little food they had. @AP @fatmakhaled46 apnews.com/article/yemen-sie…

Venezuelan migrant Vilmary built a barbershop business with her husband to give her daughter a safer, more stable future. Join people like Vilmary making real change at care.org/whocares

Boniface runs a shop, tends a tree nursery, and co-leads a local savings group all before dinner. Join people like Boniface making real change at care.org/whocares

Nigeria’s first Ebola case, confirmed on Tuesday, and the nine cases reported in Kenya over the past two weeks mark a significant escalation of an outbreak that has now spread beyond the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). As transmission crosses borders, so too do the risks, threatening not only lives but economic activity, access to essential services and the capacity for survival in communities already struggling to withstand multiple overlapping crises. care.org/media-and-press/ebo…

Families have started rationing water in and around Taiz city in Yemen as fuel and water systems serving 3 million people have been disrupted. “We feel the situation is really getting out of hand unless we able to negotiate access to have water tankers come in to the city,” said Iman Abdullahi, CARE Yemen country director. Read more @Reuters: reuters.com/business/environ…

Boniface is an important member of the Udumka community because he has a passion for helping others. He trained in social welfare and worked as a para-social worker with a youth group in Udumka. This experience sparked his interest in strengthening his community and led him to his next role, a community-based trainer with CARE. care.org/news-and-stories/we…

Earlier this month, UNESCO recognized CARE Peru with the 2026 UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education for its Niñas con Oportunidades program, which expands educational opportunities for students in rural and vulnerable communities. Read more:unesco.org/en/articles/unesc…

This winter's #ElNiño could be the strongest on record, and it could mean heavier rain, flooding, and storms for parts of the U.S. Yet 82% of emergency organizations have no tailored plan for moms and babies. CARE is working to change that. Learn who's most at risk and how to prepare: care.org/news-and-stories/el…

Rabeya has worked with JAGO NARI, a local women’s rights organization and CARE partner, for 16 years. For the past two years, she has overseen the district-level rollout of Women Lead in Emergencies (WLiE). The WLiE project helps women and women’s organizations across Bangladesh, Colombia, Ethiopia, and Ukraine lead and take part in peace, security, and humanitarian action. Join people like Rabeya making real change at care.org/whocares

“When the war reached our village, we had to flee, leaving everything behind except the clothes we were wearing,” says Morada, a newly displaced mother in southwestern Yemen. Morada is one of more than 200,000 people who have fled their homes since the Yemen conflict escalated on Sept. 3. This is the worst outbreak of conflict since a U.N.-brokered truce in 2022. Read more: care.org/news-and-stories/ye…

When Sefian gave birth to premature twins, both babies needed more specialized care than the rural health center could provide. They were referred to a hospital nearly 46 miles away, where they spent six weeks receiving care in a neonatal intensive unit. Eventually, Sefian was able to bring the newborns home. Two months later, both babies were diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition. “I did not expect my babies to survive." Read more: care.org/news-and-stories/ch…

A flash flood has caused major damage in Nepal’s Gorkha District. Early reports say more than 35 homes and six bridges have been destroyed. Several communities are now cut off from essential services. At least 10 people are missing. Around 125–150 people are directly affected. Thousands more downstream are on alert, as the flood risk remains high. Read more: care.org/media-and-press/sec…

Rabeya crosses rivers by boat, travels on motorcycles through remote villages, and walks through mud to reach women in crisis-affected communities. As a project officer for a CARE-supported program in southern Bangladesh, she builds women’s leadership in emergencies from the ground up — one group, one conversation, and one changed mind at a time. care.org/news-and-stories/wo…