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Crisis Response

Ukraine: at the Romanian border CARE International prepares to provide assistance alongside partner SERA

March 3, 2022

In just a few days, the violence in Ukraine has displaced more than one million people. Many have chosen to leave for Poland, but faced with the massive arrival of refugees, the borders are saturated. Many have therefore decided to turn south to find refuge in Romania. NGO CARE and its Romanian partner SERA are on the ground at the Isaccea border crossing preparing to provide assistance.

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Health

CARE Welcomes Inclusion of COVID Funding in Biden Administration Emergency Supplemental Request to Congress

March 3, 2022

Today the White House transmitted a formal emergency supplemental funding request to Congress addressing, in part, the critical funding needs to fulfill The Biden Administration’s goal to vaccinate the world. This request comes after over 80 CEOs of global health, hunger, and humanitarian organizations, including CARE CEO, Michelle Nunn, urged the White House to submit such a request, and the day after President Biden emphasized this commitment in his State of the Union.

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Crisis Response

Humanitarian crisis in Ukraine: CARE International provides emergency assistance funding

February 25, 2022

Urgent action is needed to avert a looming humanitarian catastrophe in Ukraine. CARE has partnered with ‘People in Need’ to provide emergency assistance to the people of Ukraine affected by this crisis. Damaged infrastructure, lack of water and food supplies: eight years of conflict have left significant scars throughout Ukraine. There are already 2.9 million people in the eastern part of the country in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. In light of recent events, this number is rising dramatically. The extent of the humanitarian disaster is difficult to predict.  

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Climate

Traumatized Community in Madagascar Braces for Cyclone Emnati

February 22, 2022

Cyclone Emnati is expected to make landfall on the southeast coast of Madagascar following almost the same path as Cyclone Batsirai. Madagascar is facing a severe cyclone season that has seen Tropical Storm Ana, Cyclone Batsirai, an inter-tropical convergence zone, and most recently Cyclone Dumako, a week ago, hit the island nation. These extreme weather phenomena have left affected communities extremely vulnerable, as their sources of food and livelihoods have been destroyed.

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