Yemen | 2024 | YHF Yemen, Abyan governorate. Aisha was worried about her son. He was malnourished but she didn’t know where she could get the treatment and medication he needed, or if she could even...
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Expanding water and hygiene best practices in vulnerable districts
Yemen | 2024| CERF Yemen, Amran governorate. Fatima, a 36-year-old midwife who works in the village of Al Aridah in As Sawd District, was worried about the health of the mothers and children she...
Learning for all: more children, more classrooms
Yemen | 2024 | YHF Yemen, Ibb governorate. Earlier last year at Arwa school, a class of first graders, aged six and seven, were using a staircase as a classroom. The school did their best to...
Immediate help in the aftermath of Vanuatu’s earthquake
Vanuatu | 2024 | CERF Vanuatu, Port Vila. In the neighbourhood of Mamau in Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu, Anna and her husband, the local church leader, have supported their community through...
Repairing homes damaged by bombs and floods
Ukraine | 2024 | CBPF Ukraine, Vasylivka and Kyselivka. “I was standing in water up to my knees inside my house, and two bombs landed just metres away,” Alyna recalls as she shows the damage around...
People on the move get material, health and psychosocial assistance
Ukraine | CBPFs | 2024 Ukraine, Ternopil. Olena and Vira had sat down for their morning coffee in their home in Chernihiv. They hadn’t finished their coffee before the shockwave from a shell hitting...
Mental health care helps displaced people move forward
Ukraine | 2024 | CBPF Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia. As the bombardments continued in Luhansk, Liliya reached a difficult decision to leave her home for Zaporizhzhia. It meant giving up everything she had...
Building a resilient family and business despite the war
Ukraine | 2024 | CBPF Ukraine, Chernihivska Oblast. Valentyna Tapekba has been breeding quail for about eight years. “My son has low haemoglobin,” she explains, and hearing that quails’ eggs can help...
Essential health care for older people affected by the war in Ukraine
Ukraine | 2024 | CBPF Ukraine, Kherson. Elizaveta is 83 years old and has lived her whole life in Kherson. As a young woman, she worked on a collective farm. She raised two sons with her husband, who...
Helping shelter families displaced by conflict
Lebanon, Beirut and other locations. Umm Hassan fled Nabatieh, a city in southern Lebanon, with her daughter and grandchildren, after their home was damaged in a bombing. They had to drive for two...
Mental and physical health care for survivors of violence
Central African Republic. Last year, Elizabeth*, 17, lost both her parents when armed groups came to her hometown. They took her and held her prisoner for months. Elizabeth escaped and sought shelter...
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Helping children return to school
Central African Republic, Baoro. Fadimatou is seven years old. Her family fled to Cameroon to escape persistent violence in their hometown. Now, Fadimatou and her family are among the Central African...
Building skills in communities devastated by economic crisis
Venezuela, El Rincón. “Fishing is for men,” is the saying around these parts. In remote communities like this one in Sucre state, ensuring people have enough quality, nutritious food can be a...
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A lifeline for people fleeing conflict
Ethiopia, Matema. Abdi, who is Ethiopian, went to Sudan for work nearly two decades ago. He and his wife made a decent living, saving what they could and sending money back home to Ethiopia to help...
CERF helps a young doctor deliver life-saving treatment
Yemen |2024|CERF Yemen, Hudaydah governorate. Dr. Jamal Al Babeli is a young doctor at Bajil Hospital, working on the front lines of a growing health crisis. Over eight years into the conflict,...
Dignified and secure shelter for displaced families
Syria | 2024| CERF Northwest Syria. After thirteen years of conflict, hundreds of thousands of people live in displacement in Syria, in conditions that were meant to be temporary. For Um Musab, in...
Safe water for families living through war and earthquake
Syria | CERF | 2024 Northwest Syria. “The water situation was tragic,” recalls Mustafa, who is living in a displacement camp in Northwest Syria since fleeing fighting many years ago. It was always...
Helping displaced people access quality health care
Mali | CERF | 2024 Mali, Ménaka. Aissata (not her real name), remembers the day she fell ill. "My stomach hurt that day, I was weak and I had no appetite. Worst of all, I had no money and my husband...
Vital health and protection for displaced women in Haiti
Haiti | 2024 | CERF Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Marie is 67 years old. She used to sell goods at the market to get by, but since the gang violence in Haiti has escalated she is living in the Colbert...
Helping to keep a broken hospital running
Sudan | 2024 | CERF Sudan, El Fasher. On 13 October 2024, Dr.Suhiba was performing an operation. “A mortar hit the hospital. I was so worried because the patient’s wounds were open, and everyone was...