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Impact Stories

The Humanitarian Coalition members are taking care of basic survival needs and helping people rebuild their lives when their homes, schools and livelihoods have been devastated by a disaster. Learn more about these crises and meet people who have benefited from your support.

On a daily basis, refugees struggle with limited or no access to basic sanitation, safe drinking water, toilets and food.

After walking for as many as 14 days with little food and water, hunger and malnutrition are often a pressing problem that many new arrivals face.

More than 600,000 people have fled Myanmar since August 25, 2017; 80 per cent of those are women and children.

Cleaning the washroom probably sits low on the favourite chores list of most people.

Like the other members of her community, Cherie Melida lost everything because of Hurricane Matthew.

Cuba is no stranger to hurricanes, but Gregoria says Matthew's strength was the most intense she has ever seen.

South Sudanese youth finds Canadian support in Uganda refugee camp.

Sheltering in the attic, rationing rice and rainwater, Mai Thi Tung could only hope the floodwater would soon recede.

CARE responded to the needs of the affected people in six remote villages.

For students at Cairine Wilson Secondary School in Ottawa, it was also a time to raise awareness of the hunger crisis affecting more than 20 million people in parts of Africa and Yemen.
Humanitarian aid is reaching hundreds of thousands of people affected by drought and conflict in parts of Africa and Yemen.

CLWR has been providing shelters for South Sudanese refugees in Uganda since 2015.