iCare Blog

On the left are Mike O’Malley and Peter Gammons, two of the people who work with the Foundation to Be Named Later (FTBNL) to make this event happen. Almost everything (musicians, space, food, promotion) is donated, so the money raised goes to the organizations helping kids. FTBNL does a fine job of finding efficient, high-impact non–profits to support.

And here is Bronson Arroyo doing his Pearl Jam impersonation.

Buffalo Tom rocks it on January 15th to help raise $300k for non-profits who work with kids. Buffalo Tom is a regular at these fundraisers, playing good music and donating their time for a good cause. We were the lead sponsor.

These pictures of one of the schools in Rwanda we support are from Jaime Stewart, CARE’s country manager. I visited there two years ago, and was impressed with how the kids paid attention and seemed eager to learn.

We received this update from Monte Allen at CARE this week. My impression is that CARE is addressing the big relief challenges in a pragmatic way.

Roger

Today, on the one-year anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, you may want a brief update on CARE’s response:  where we have placed our emphasis and what contribution we have been able to make to the overall relief and recovery effort.

Here is a link to a very summary review of CARE’s work.  About one-fifth of the way down the page, you’ll find a menu bar followed by succinct descriptions of our areas of particular focus:  shelter, women and girls, water sanitation and hygiene, livelihoods, food security, and children’s education psychological care and well being.  Click on “video” to see a 4-5 minute synopsis.

Thank you for your interest in CARE’s efforts to support the people of Haiti over this last, horrible year.

In this 10-page update from CARE, I was struck by this comment: “The geographical scale of this disaster and the number of affected people makes this a bigger and more complex situation than almost any other ever faced by the humanitarian community.”

PakistanFloodReliefUpdateDec2010

18 million people have been affected by the flooding, with millions in urgent need of assistance. CARE has so far been able to offer shelter and medical/health assistance to 100,000 people – a small fraction of those in need. Part of the problem is that this crisis has not led to the same outpouring of support that followed the tsunami or the Haitian earthquake. Aid organizations are working with much smaller budgets in Pakistan. Although our role is small, Ipswitch is glad to support CARE’s relief effort.