1. Today, more than 20 million people across four countries face starvation and famine. 20 million — that’s more than twice the population of Switzerland or the entire population of Europe’s five largest capital cities — and that’s how many people are affected by one of the biggest humanitarian crises…

By Stépha Rouichi, Advocacy Manager for CARE DRC I have lived and worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo for almost four years. But during my recent visit to the Kasai region I realised just how much of a nightmare the daily life for many women, men and children is…

Female aid workers deploying to disaster zones often face barriers that men don’t. Aid organizations are changing their policies– but is that enough to add more female colleagues to their surge teams? A seasoned female aid worker expecting her second child once asked me whether I think she can ever…

By Aaron Brent, Senior Humanitarian Team Leader, CARE International The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of the most challenging places to deliver aid and train local communities. Not just because of the brutal conflicts that have been ravaging for decades, with the last one erupting in the provinces…

By Aaron Brent, Senior Humanitarian Team Leader, CARE International We slip and slide through bottomless sand pits, crawling along five kilometres per hour until our car suddenly jolts to a stop. We are on our way back from the area of Kabeya Kamuanaga, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where we…

The ravages of violent conflict, extreme poverty, underdevelopment and climate change are affecting more than 17 million people across the Lake Chad Basin. Spanning north eastern Nigeria, Cameroon’s Far North, south eastern Niger and western Chad, this is one of Africa’s biggest humanitarian crises. The Lac region of western Chad…

By Aaron Brent, Senior Humanitarian Team Leader, CARE International The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has always been fascinating to me. Looking at a map of the world, one will notice a massive green space in the middle of the African continent. …

I started my humanitarian career as a volunteer logistician in Abéché, a town in north-eastern Chad, in January 1985. I was quite young, 27 years old. I arrived in Chad during the third year of the massive famine in the Sahel of the mid-80s. A lot of people were dying…

Rabia.– 16 years old from Afghanistan, born in Iran. “I am Afghan, but I was born in Iran. Back there, I could not go to school but have been working in a doctor’s office since the age of 14. When the Iranian government started sending Afghan refugee men to fight…