Six months on

By CARE Australia July 12, 2010 0 comments

On Tuesday 12 January, six months ago today, Haiti was struck by one of the modern world’s worst disasters. A 7.0 earthquake collapsed buildings across the city of Port-au-Prince, killing over 220,000 people and leaving tens of thousands injured. Three million people were affected and as many as 1.5 million men,…

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Cycling from Vietnam to Cambodia with CARE

By CARE Australia March 9, 2010 3 comments

Seven women from Australia are currently participating in CARE’s I am powerful cycle challenge from Vietnam to Cambodia. Participants will visit CARE projects and hear first-hand from the communities about how CARE is empowering women and helping to overcome global poverty. Belinda from Inspired Adventures is sending regular updates on how the…

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Eyewitness account: Everything is urgent

By CARE Australia January 14, 2010 0 comments

Sophie Perez, CARE’s Country Director in Haiti, was in the CARE office in Port-au-Prince when the earthquake hit at about 5 p.m. local time Jan. 12, 2010. We reached her by phone at 6.30 a.m. local time January 13. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz, courtesy http://www.alertnet.org   It was terrifying. The quake…

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Kenya: The women of Kibera are powerful

By CARE Australia October 20, 2009 0 comments

By Chris Northey, Emergencies Coordinator, CARE Australia The women of Kibera are powerful. I learnt this yesterday. Kibera in Nairobi is one of the largest informal urban settlements in Africa. Home to close to a million people crammed together in five square kilometres of land, it is a potential urban…

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Sri Lanka: Mother’s Day in an IDP camp

By CARE Australia May 29, 2009 0 comments

In northern Sri Lanka, CARE assists vulnerable women and mothers in the camps where many have been displaced by conflict.

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Responsibilities of a global citizen speech

By CARE Australia April 30, 2009 0 comments

By Jess Perrin, CARE Communications Officer Made to Cheltenham Secondary College, 27/04/2008 On Saturday we paused as a nation to reflect on those who lost their lives in war – people as young as many of you here today. Standing amongst other Australians at the crack of dawn and…

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