Discover what CARE is doing globally to support women and girls

‘I was very afraid that a bullet would hit me’

Eleven-year-old Rafa and her family fled Homs, Syria, when bullets were coming through the walls of their home. Now they get cash assistance from CARE to help pay for rent and food in the Jordanian capital of Amman. ‘We were very afraid when we left our home,’ Rafa begins. ‘We had to leave in a […]

The future of Timor-Leste

CARE Australia’s Takara Morgan speaks about youth, education and CARE’s programs in Timor-Leste.

Food distribution in North Kivu

Stories from the province of North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where more than 330,000 people have fled their homes due to violence and conflict. “We heard shooting and when we realized it was coming closer we took our baby and ran.” Twenty-year-old Jean and his wife had no time to take […]

Chad: Facing a food crisis

Julia Newton-Howes, CARE Australia CEO, recently visited Chad to see part of CARE’s response to the food crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa. Please donate to CARE’s Global Emergency Fund. Chad has a population of about 10 million people, living in a country a little smaller than the Northern Territory, a lot of […]

Building legal capacity in Papua New Guinea

An interview with Josh Underhill and Zach Meyers from King & Wood Mallesons on the development of a legal handbook for NGOs in Papua New Guinea in partnership with CARE Australia What was the purpose of the project? King & Wood Mallesons (K&WM) and CARE wanted to work together to build the legal capacity and […]

Ethiopia: It takes a village to recover from drought

Rain rules the lives of rural Ethiopians. When drought came to the district of Mesela, people coped by reducing their number of daily meals, and selling their remaining livestock (often their most important assets). In December 2011, CARE initiated a livelihoods recovery project with funding from the Austrian Development Agency, distributing cereal and vegetable seeds, […]

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