What is it like to give birth in a war zone?

A moment-by-moment account [View Online]( A C-section in Gaza Zenab* had left her tent in Khan Younis the night before the C-section and stayed in Deir Al Balah, about halfway to the hospital in Nuseirat. She was too scared that road blockages, bombings, and bad traffic would make her late to her appointment. I joined Zenab in Deir Al Balah in the morning, and we left at about 7:30 a.m. According to UN estimates, more than 70 percent of all homes in Gaza have been destroyed, and that is what we saw on our ten-mile journey to the hospital. There was destruction all around us. All the buildings were flattened to the ground. We passed ghost towns of bombed out houses, schools, and health centers. The streets were now filled with people who have fled after the Rafah offensive, who have set their tents up here in the rubble because there is nowhere else for them to go. [Read more](. NEWS “When we got back to our apartment, we didn’t have a single window left. There were pigeons on the balcony.” Ukraine: returning like a bird to its empty nest [Read More]( NEWS “This new system is quite fast and reduces the risk of money being sent to the wrong person.” Somalia: Leading in mobile money technology [Read More]( World Refugee Day: Through the Darien Gap on a broken leg Marisol Perez, a 51-year-old migrant currently in Honduras, has made countless decisions since she left her Venezuelan home five years ago. None of them have been easy. Today she sits in a folding chair outside a tent in a Honduran refugee shelter, waiting for her badly fractured leg to heal. It’s a leg that was shattered because of a lose-lose choice she was forced to make as she traveled through Panama’s Darien Gap. [Read More]( Help CARE fight poverty and provide emergency relief aid to the poorest communities in the world. [DONATE TODAY]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( [YouTube]( Was this email forwarded to you? Please [subscribe]( to get these and similar updates. © 2023 CARE All Rights Reserved [About Us]( [Contact Us]( CARE 151 Ellis St NE, Atlanta, GA, 30303 [Privacy Policy]( | [Unsubscribe](