For Rebeya Begum and other women in her village in Bangladesh, bathing was a cause of daily worries and waits. After receiving support from AHP partners to build a better bathing facility, women and girls feel safer and more confident.
Read MoreAHP partners are playing a critical role in the delivery of sexual and reproductive health services to Rohingya families in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. CARE is supporting two static Government of Bangladesh health clinics in two camps, and delivering extensive outreach services across three. A young Rohingya woman shares her experience of the services received.
Read MoreDisaster READY PNG supported the Autonomous Region of Bougainville to provide humanitarian assistance following the deliberate destruction of homes on Sohano Island in March 2019. While small in scale, the Sohano Island response highlighted valuable lessons that have been incorporated into Disaster READY’s ongoing work in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville.
Read MoreWomen Friendly Spaces can provide women with much needed respite and support in humanitarian situations. However, community attitudes and suspicion must be sometimes overcome before some women can safely join.
In Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, CARE has been working to overcome some of these barriers for Rohingya refugees, ensuring the women have somewhere to gather, seek information and find refuge among each other.
Read MoreDisaster READY Vanuatu spent 2018, the program’s foundation year, forming and cementing partnerships across the nation. Read about their progress here, including how a multi-stakeholder tsunami drill was soon put into action.
Read MoreEnsuring women can maintain their mobility, dignity and menstrual health is a key focus of this AHP-supported response for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
Read MoreTwo mothers explain the challenges they face in the aftermath of the September 18 earthquake and tsunami in Sulawesi, Indonesia
Read MoreFatima wasn’t always a refugee. Five years after being forced to leave the life she once knew, Fatima talks about her memories of those left behind in Syria and a future with limited work options in Jordan’s Za’atari refugee camp.
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