SANA’A, Yemen—(August 14, 2016)-- Twelve aid agencies today called on the Saudi-led coalition to lift restrictions on Yemeni airspace in order to allow for the reopening of the country’s main airport, Sana’a International, and to allow humanitarian flights to resume.A spokesperson on behalf of the agencies said: “The closure of Yemen’s main airport, which serves
Read MoreAMMAN (July 26,2016) — More than 300,000 civilians in Aleppo and an estimated 60,000 in the Manbij area, Syria, have been cut off from aid in the last three weeks, marking a shameful deterioration since the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) promised to open full access to aid across the country six months ago.While the ISSG meets
Read MoreKATHMANDU (May 13, 2015) – Little more than two weeks after Nepal’s worst earthquake in more than 80 years, the country was traumatized by a second deadly earthquake on May 12.CARE was in the process of scaling up its response in the remote Sindhupalchowk district at the time of the second earthquake.A CARE team was
Read MoreKathmandu, NEPAL (May 6, 2015) — Since the devastating earthquake that hit Nepal on April 25, international aid agency CARE has reached nearly 11,000 people with food, emergency shelter and hygiene items, and is scaling up its response to reach 100,000 of the most vulnerable people, with a focus on the remote areas of Nepal, where many
Read MoreKathmandu, NEPAL (April 28, 2015) — International aid agency CARE plans to distribute emergency shelter and hygiene kits this week to nearly 2,500 vulnerable people impacted by the earthquake in Nepal. Distribution of 250 kits are planned Wednesday in Gorkha, a rural area near the epicenter where it’s estimated that up to 80 percent of the homes
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CARE launches urgent appeal for funds as death toll in Nepal rises. KATHMANDU, Nepal-(April 26, 2015)—Humanitarian organization CARE is responding to a devastating earthquake that struck between the Nepalese capital Kathmandu and the city of Pokhara yesterday.The death toll from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake is at over 1800, and expected to continue rising, with hundreds of thousands
Read MoreCARE RESPONSE TEAMS ON THE GROUND AS REPORTS OF MAJOR CASUALTIES AND DAMAGE ARE REPORTEDKATHMANDU, NEPAL (April 25, 2015) — A 7.9 magnitude earthquake has struck Nepal at 11:46am local time. The epicenter of the earthquake struck in an area between the Nepalese capital Kathmandu and the city of Pokhara. There are reports of significant numbers of
Read MoreThe international community must urgently change its approach to Gaza and deliver on promises of reconstruction, 46 agencies said today in a new report on the lack of progress since last year's conflict. Six months since donors pledged $3.5 billion towards Gaza's recovery, many people are worse off and not a single one of the 19,000
Read MoreJUBA, South Sudan (March 10, 2015) - Humanitarian organization CARE has reached more than 600,000 South Sudanese people affected by the conflict that began in the world’s newest nation in December 2013.Working across South Sudan’s three hardest-hit States of Unity, Upper Nile and Jonglei, CARE is providing emergency water, sanitation, hygiene services and education, in addition
Read MorePORT-AU-PRINCE - (Jan. 12, 2015) — Five years after a deadly earthquake left an already impoverished nation in complete devastation, the rebuilding effort in Haiti has made significant progress, even as the disaster-prone country continues to face serious challenges.
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