CARE: Lasting Support for Refugees Worldwide

Thank you for your commitment to supporting CARE’s Lasting Support for Refugees Worldwide. Below are updates on CARE’s response to this humanitarian crisis:

CARE is working to help Syrians meet their most urgent needs and protect their dignity. We are on the ground in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen and Syria, collaborating with partners and helping people displaced by the conflict and the communities hosting them.

Inside Syria, 12.5 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance. Approximately 6.5 million people are displaced within the country's borders and another 5,000 flee their homes every day. Through our partners, CARE is providing lifesaving emergency assistance to people affected by the conflict in Syria, reaching 182,000 to date. We have provided food, baby items, hygiene kits and winterization kits and other emergency supplies to families; psychological and social support to children; and equipment, medicine and support for hospital obstetric care.  

With our partners, CARE is also providing food assistance through the distribution of food baskets and carrying out water sanitation activities including the rehabilitation of a water treatment plant and the distribution of water purification tablets to households. 

CARE is impartial and neutral and we do not take sides. We provide assistance based on need alone.

HEALTH ALERT: The news of a polio outbreak in Syria - the first in 14 years - is yet another tragic reality millions of Syrians are facing. With more people seeking shelter from the conflict in neighboring countries, CARE is helping refugees receive the proper information and immunization to protect them from polio. In our four refugee centers in Jordan, we're letting Syrians know where they can receive a polio vaccination, which is especially important for infants. We also are helping people protect themselves from the upcoming winter – a time when immune systems weaken and when diseases can spread quickly.

Links:

• Special Delivery
• CARE for Refugees

Thank you for your commitment to supporting CARE’s Lasting Support for Refugees Worldwide. Below are updates on CARE’s response to this humanitarian crisis:

Refugees have well-founded fears of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, and other factors. Many refugees are facing their fifth winter in tents, unfinished buildings, and sheds. This winter, CARE’s teams across the region have been helping over 35,000 refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey with winterization cash assistance, mattresses, blankets, gas heaters, and clothing. Inside Syria, CARE has reached approximately 50,000 people this winter in different areas with winterization assistance. Nevertheless, funding is desperately needed to provide urgently needed support. With your donation CARE provides short and long term assistance to refugees- from shelter, food, water as well as education, health and security.

How is CARE Responding?

CARE's provision of life-saving services to refugees and host communities in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt, and to people affected by the crisis inside Syria has already reached almost 1.5 million people. In Jordan, CARE provides Emergency Cash Assistance for refugees so they can pay for basic living costs, including rent, medication and food. CARE assists with vital information on how refugees can access further health, legal and social support and provides psychosocial assistance to women, men and children, in addition to other services such as winterization cash assistance, cash for education, recreational and psychosocial safe spaces for children, women, and men, and referrals to other NGOs. In Lebanon, CARE repairs water and sanitation infrastructure, provides health education sessions, works with municipalities to improve water supply and sanitation infrastructure for refugees as well as for host communities. CARE Turkey is providing life-saving aid to refugees from Syria, in addition to providing water and sanitation assistance, food vouchers, hygiene and household items, and information provision on health and gender/sexual violence.

Syrian volunteers, who are refugees themselves, are an integral part of CARE's Syria Response. Alongside Jordanian and Lebanese volunteers, they assist in organizing and preparing distributions of relief items.

Looking ahead, CARE remains committed to helping ensure refugee families have protection, shelter, food, clean water, and that they eventually can recover their livelihoods.

Human Interest Story

Amir’s Letter

“My name is Amir. I am 33 years old. Here is my story, in brief.

I lived for a long time in a foreign country, far from my beloved homeland of Syria and far from my family, my relatives, my loved ones, and my friends. I did this in order to work and earn money for a house. So that I can get married and settle down and live in my home and have a beautiful family (the dream of every young Syrian). When I had enough money for a house, I returned to Syria and I did buy a house with the guidance of God. But I lived in it for a short time because the Arab Spring began in my country. The bombing began. My precious house, which I had worked hard for, built from the ground, and looked after day and night, was destroyed. So was my dream. My family got scattered throughout the country, and in other countries. I live alone now in a foreign country and I anxiously wait to be reunited with my family.

Thank you.”

Hint’s letter

“I’m 26 and I am from a city called Shahba in Syria. I grew up there but went to Halap to continue my university studies. There I met young people from all over Syria, and made some very good friends. I returned home after my studies, and found work as a public servant. Then the fighting started. My family had an internet café. It got broken into. It was tense, hostile. We left Syria. Now I am happy that I can volunteer for CARE. All I want is peace and hope for Syria and all countries suffering like mine. I want to go back and achieve what I planned to do.”

Note: Hint is a 26-year-old female refugee who volunteers at the CARE East Amman Refugee Center.

Links:

• Young Voices from Syria