Help 1 woman out of poverty and she'll bring 4 others with her.

Women and girls can create lasting change if they have the opportunity to gain an education, access health services, generate an income, and take a lead in their community.

Educating girls has cascading benefits. Educated women are:

    • less likely to die in childbirth
    • more likely to have healthy babies
    • more likely to send their children to school
    • better able to protect their children from HIV, trafficking and sexual exploitation.

Put simply, educating women and girls provides the single highest return on investment in the developing world.

We’d like to introduce you to four women CARE has helped to live, learn, earn and lead in their communities. Click on the pictures below to read each woman's story.

You can help her to live, learn, earn and lead

It can cost as little as $69 to educate a girl for a year.