CARE and its partner organizations in the Philippines have joined forces to develop and launch the country’s newest platform for learning, reflection and collaboration on resilience building and innovations. The Resilience and Innovation Learning Hub or RILHUB is a joint initiative of CARE (lead), Assistance and Cooperation for Community Resilience and Development (ACCORD), Agri-Aqua Development […]
Story by Dennis Amata (Communications & Knowledge Manager, CARE Philippines) Typhoon Yolanda, internationally known as Haiyan, has become a name that’s hard to forget. The super typhoon wiped out homes, killed more than 6,300 people, and devastated agricultural lands leaving those who survived homeless and without any source of income. But for the people who […]
Typhoon Rosita (internationally known as Yutu) made landfall in Dinapigue, Isabela, Philippines at 4 a.m. on Tuesday. It then passed through several provinces in the northern part of the country. The typhoon is moving slightly slower to the west at 20 kilometers per hour (km/h) speed from the previous 25 km/h. The typhoon continues to […]
CARE makes history after organizing the 1st Leyte Cassava Congress in collaboration with the Global Affairs Canada, Fatima Multi-Purpose Cooperative (FMPC), Philirootcrops and Philippine government agencies at the Visayas State University. The event, attended by over 300 people, brought small-scale cassava farmers closer to government agency officials and other service providers for additional support, and […]
Story by Dennis Amata (Communications & Knowledge Manager, CARE Philippines) The sun slowly sets over the picturesque Lanao Lake in Marawi City. Janerah Abdulmoin, CARE’s Program Coordinator for its Marawi Crisis Response project, looks at the sky in vibrant red and orange also reflected across the water. She can’t help but recall her days as […]
CARE is a leading international humanitarian agency delivering emergency relief and long-term international development projects. Founded in 1945, CARE is nonsectarian, impartial, and non-governmental. In 2016, CARE worked in 94 countries supporting 962 poverty-fighting and humanitarian aid projects, and reaching over 80 million people and 256 million people indirectly.
In the Philippines, CARE worked since 1949 and is known for its disaster response, emergency preparedness, livelihoods recovery, and integrated risk management programs. CARE’s recent responses in the Philippines include typhoon Pablo (Bopha) in 2012, Yolanda (Haiyan) in 2013, Ruby (Hagupit) in 2014, Lando (Koppu) and Koppu (Melor) in 2015, Karen (Sarika), Lawin (Haima), Nina (Nock-ten) in 2016, and the earthquake in Surigao City in 2017. CARE is currently implementing a number of urban resilience, disaster risk reduction, and economic development programs in the Philippines.