One year after Nepal earthquakes: Thousands of survivors still lack basic necessities

A year on from the devastating earthquakes in Nepal, aid agency CARE Australia is calling for reconstruction efforts to be accelerated. The magnitude-7.8 earthquake, which struck on 25 April 2015, and a further massive quake on 12 May killed nearly 9,000 people and injured more than 22,000 others. CARE’s Country Director in Nepal, Lora Wuennenberg, […]

Cyclone Winston: Women the backbone of Fiji’s disaster recovery

As the international relief effort in Fiji continues, humanitarian organisation CARE Australia says it is critical international aid targets the specific needs of women and girls.

Yemen is the crisis that the world forgot

Originally published in the Herald Sun and Herald Sun online. Small talk can be difficult with someone who lives in Yemen. Questions about family often turn to dead relatives. Talk about a bad night’s sleep and you might find yourself in a conversation about nightly bombing raids. Such was the case recently in Jordan, when I […]

CARE to distribute aid in flood-affected Myanmar and Bangladesh

CARE Australia is preparing to distribute emergency relief supplies to areas worst affected by flooding and landslides in Myanmar and Bangladesh. In Myanmar, at least 39 people have been killed, with more than 200,000 people affected across the country. “Myanmar has been hit hard by heavy monsoon rains for the last two weeks, worsened by […]

Yemen: A political solution must be reached to prevent humanitarian catastrophe

Following the declaration of the end of airstrikes in Yemen, international aid organisation CARE says humanitarian access must urgently improve and a political solution be reached, as the impoverished nation is facing a humanitarian catastrophe. Since airstrikes began on 26 March, the conflict in the Middle-Eastern nation has spread across the majority of the country, […]

CARE Australia and Virgin Australia partner to support development across Asia-Pacific

CARE Australia and Virgin Australia today announced a partnership to support CARE’s work with thousands of poor communities in the Asia-Pacific region. The partnership begins with Virgin Australia’s major sponsorship of the Walk In Her Shoes Challenge, which sees thousands of Australians walking 25, 50 or 100 kilometres over one week, replicating the distances that […]

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