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Keeping girls in school in Vanuatu

Florence is 17 years old, and she is determined that she will do things and go places. But for the last few years, there’s been something getting in her way: her period. “In school, when the boys know that we have our periods, they laugh or check our skirts when we get up from our […]

Those in need overseas ignored in 2017 federal budget

With the number of displaced people in the world right now at its highest ever, the need for compassion and aid from countries which can afford it is at its peak. There is a growing global need to build empathy, not barriers, understanding, not ignorance, of the plight of millions currently living in poverty. Yet […]

Cash assistance for refugees in Athens

Today marks the start of National Volunteer Week and we’d like to say an enormous thank you! We’re celebrating by featuring some of the amazing volunteers that help make our work possible right around the world.

Nyaber’s story

Nyaber was born in 2011 – the same year South Sudan gained its independence. In 2014, at age three, conflict forced Nyaber and her family to flee to the forest, where they remained for years. In 2016, they returned home to find everything destroyed. In 2017, famine was declared in her region. This is her [...]

Thank you for helping mothers like Dana

This February we set out to raise $200,000 to help give mothers like Dana a chance to start their lives again after fleeing conflict. Thanks to your incredible generosity, we are thrilled so say we reached our target! On behalf of mothers like Dana everywhere, thank you so much for helping to protect children and […]

Savings Groups Creating Independent Women

Thanks to our generous supporters, in 1991 CARE launched a transformative program in Niger that would change the world. It harnessed the ancient practice of group savings in an innovative concept called Village Savings & Loan Associations or VSLAs. The groups offered communities without formal financial services – and women in particular – a safe way to save […]

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