‘I am somebody now’: Living with HIV in Bougainville PNG

by Lyrian Fleming, CARE’s Education Coordinator Sylvester Pokona is just 38 years old, but has the life experience of a man much older. A survivor of the Bougainville crisis – the civil war which gripped Bougainville in Papua New Guinea from 1988 to 1990, all the events of his life since then have been impacted […]

Vietnam: Mushrooms provide the chance to get an education

CARE’s microfinance provides vulnerable households in Vietnam with loans, training and support to begin small businesses.

Bringing clean, safe water to remote shores in PNG

By Lyrian Fleming, CARE Development Education Coordinator You know you’re headed somewhere off the beaten track when you strap on a life vest and jump in a small boat for a four hour journey across the open sea. As a somewhat nervous seafarer, I couldn’t help but look up at the skies, willing the grey […]

Rural poverty in remote PNG

Joint research conducted by CARE and the Development Policy Centre at the ANU finds challenges to overcoming rural poverty in remote Papua New Guinea.

Education beyond the classroom in Cambodia

By Amelia Poxon, CARE Communications Coordinator At just 22 years-of-age, Soun Dyna last went to school 14 years ago. Her family did not have the money to pay for school fees, so she and her seven brothers and sisters only made it as far as grade two or three. As an adult, Dyna felt destined […]

Reporting from Dadaab Camp: 500,000 likely to arrive by the end of the year

By Adam Poulter,  Emergency Response Manager for CARE Australia, writing from Kenya. Today, I spoke to a young woman who had walked for twenty days with her two children. They left their home due to the drought which has dried up all drinking water sources. She was sitting in a makeshift tent made from rough branches […]

Supporting women and girls. Defeating poverty.

Supporting women and girls. Defeating poverty.

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