Stories are a basic human need.
People use them to form social connections, take agency over their lives, and to make meaning out of trauma.
Stories are motivation. People are 20 times more likely to remember facts if they’re part of a story, and they’re more likely to act if they think their actions will affect a story’s outcome.
By featuring stories from communities in crises around the world, CARE News & Stories has worked since 2019 to bring humanity to the forefront of the conversation. We’ve worked to motivate listeners, viewers, and readers to help take part in CARE’s mission to save lives, defeat poverty, and achieve social justice.
This year, more people read CARE News stories than ever before.
Over three hundred thousand people came to CARE News to find stories about humanitarian crisis response, climate resiliency, gender equity, frontline health care workers, and innovative thought leaders from around the world.
And these readers – you and others like you — took action.
You pushed for the passage of the 2023 Farm Bill, helped get direct aid to people living on less than $4 a day, and helped CARE get needed medical supplies to those in crisis.
Thank you.
Following are the stories from 2023 you liked the most. They were created by CARE’s worldwide network of writers, photographers, and filmmakers, and they helped reflect a slice of our global work.
To our readers and supporters, however you found CARE News & stories – through this website, CARE’s social channels, global media outlets, or through other supporters’ feeds and chats – thank you for helping us move a little closer to a future of hope, inclusion, and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and all people live with dignity and security.
With your help, we’ll bring you even more stories – and help save even more lives – in 2024.
