Me in Berlin. I spent a whole day on my bike, visiting as many places as possible. (Photo: tourist)
It was an awaited opportunity for me since I knew that I will go there. I went to the train station an hour earlier just to understand how the train system works. Luckily, it was not that complex as I expected. When I sat on the train and it started to move, my heart was beating fast. I was on board in a high-speed train for the first time in life!
“I am Powerful!” What does it mean? Is it a political action? No, it is a new brand of CARE, a campaign that put the focus on women`s empowerment.
The CARE campaign "I am powerful" portrais women from different contries. Here a Cambodian woman shows that with her vegetable garden she can feed the family. (Photo:CARE Australia)
It really caught my attention. Since the beginning of my internship, I saw it many times, both on the CARE website and in many information leaflets.
Islamabad: Shortly before 7 p.m at Jinnah Market in the centre of the Pakistani capital.
Thomas Schwarz is currently in Pakistan (photo: CARE)
The crows are creating such a noise that even the cars that are trying to find a parking space cannot be heard. There is an astonishingly quiet atmosphere here. Usually people, voices, cars and loud small motorbikes are swarming around here. Not to mention the signal-horns. But now, in these minutes, it’s calm all over this market place. (more…)
Melanie Brooks is Media and Communications Coordinator for CARE International’s Emergency Response Team in Geneva, Switzerland.
Two images of Shirley flash intermittently back and forth in my head: one, of Shirley smiling, laughing with tsunami survivors in Indonesia; the other, of a bloodied Shirley, slumped against the door of a bullet-riddled car in Afghanistan. I never saw the second image, but it’s in my head anyway. For the past two years, it hasn’t left. (more…)
The room is much too big for just one person. I live here during my stay in Islamabad. When a Pakistani friend came to see me he said: “There would be room for more people.” He’s right.
These people have survived. They have been rescued by a boat from the flood. (Photo: CARE/Schwarz)
Thinking of the living conditions of those affected by the flood, I ask myself why I live in such a big room. I take some comfort in the thought that I travel a lot. Just to appease my guilty conscience.
I spent yesterday morning going around Santiago de Chile with Roswitha. She has told me of a home for the elderly that has been ravaged by the earthquake. It is lead by Franciscans since the 90s and more than 150 years old.
The first floor can not be used any more, due to the effects of the quake. Some of the 60 inhabitants – all of them women – have to sleep in the corridors and the sisters moved out of their quarters to make room for the elderly. (more…)
Dec. 10 – Marcos Athias Neto, CARE Strategic Director for Partnership and Climate Change, explains the links between climate change and food security – including examples of good and bad approaches on the lives of those most vulnerable to climate change.
ADVOCACY: Poul Erik Lauridsen, CARE International’s Climate Change Advocacy Coordinator, explains what CARE will be doing in the next two weeks at COP15 to advocate for a fair, ambitious and binding Agreement.
I called Grace from my hotel this morning, to check details of the day, and within minutes found myself being whisked off in the CARE car to a meeting in the Ugandan parliament!
We’d arrived in Kampala to find our plans of attending parliament with the 336 women activists disrupted. An MP had recently died, and the Speaker of Parliament was concerned that our ‘celebration’ would not be in the correct mood with a funeral taking place. (more…)
