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Disaster relief, reimagined: The CARE PACKAGE® for Emergencies is unlike anything else - CARE

CARE·Whitney Kenerly·3 days ago
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A woman in Ecuador carries a CARE PACKAGE for Emergencies up a hill. Photo: CARE The new CARE PACKAGE® for Emergencies was designed to do what few disaster relief kits have managed before: address multiple survival and dignity needs in one portable package. Directors from countries where the package has been tested say it is already changing how communities experience disaster response. In Malawi, Samuel Zonda demonstrates how the solar charger in the CARE PACKAGE for Emergencies is used to charge the emergency light. Behind Samuel, the tarp included in the kit is used as a shelter: CARE Malawi More than an emergency kit Faces crowd around a small black phone screen as sheets of rain pound against a tarp overhead. For a few long seconds, nobody speaks. A grandmother presses her palms together beneath her chin. A child leans forward so close that his breath fogs the glass. Then, at the bottom corner of the phone screen, a tiny battery symbol flickers to life. The family exhales all at once.…

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