By Lyrian Fleming, CARE Development Education Coordinator You know you’re headed somewhere off the beaten track when you strap on a life vest and jump in a small boat for a four hour journey across the open sea. As a somewhat nervous seafarer, I couldn’t help but look up at the skies, willing the grey […]
Reporting from Dadaab Camp: 500,000 likely to arrive by the end of the year
By Adam Poulter, Emergency Response Manager for CARE Australia, writing from Kenya. Today, I spoke to a young woman who had walked for twenty days with her two children. They left their home due to the drought which has dried up all drinking water sources. She was sitting in a makeshift tent made from rough branches […]