Food for thought in Cambodia

By Amelia Poxon, CARE Australia Communications Officer   Today, I met five mothers from Srae Angkrong Commune in Cambodia’s north-east. We sat around a table in the communal area of their small village, which boasts a colourful pagoda for Buddhist prayer, a meeting house and a playground. The topic of our conversation? Cabbages and classrooms. […]

Six months on

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, women and children were displaced […]

Cycling from Vietnam to Cambodia with CARE

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 group are going and what a CARE challenge is […]

Eyewitness account: Everything is urgent

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.   It was terrifying. The quake lasted for more than a minute. We were at the […]

Kenya: The women of Kibera are powerful

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 nightmare of the future, with […]

Sri Lanka: Mother’s Day in an IDP camp

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

Supporting women and girls. Defeating poverty.

Supporting women and girls. Defeating poverty.

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