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.

Responsibilities of a global citizen speech

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 listening to the last post, together […]

Supporting women and girls. Defeating poverty.

Supporting women and girls. Defeating poverty.

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