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Discover what CARE is doing globally to support women and girls

This single mother was building her own house brick by brick. Then a cyclone changed everything.

Life was looking up for Victoria Rosario. Twelve years ago her husband left her to raise their 10 children alone, but the now 46-year-old from Mozambique had quite literally been putting her life back together brick by brick. “I had a piece of land that I was cultivating, and I had many chickens. I would […]

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They will never wake again: Yemen airstrikes kill sleeping family

  Yesterday a new round of deadly airstrikes in Yemen shattered hopes for peace in a country where one child is dying every twelve minutes. CARE’s Alex Hilliard is in the capital, Sana’a, where the airstrikes hit. During Ramadan, Sana’a is very quiet in the mornings. I usually go out onto our terrace first thing […]

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How this teenager went from fleeing Syria to competing in the Olympics

Azraq refugee camp in Jordan is home to more than 40,000 refugees who have fled the continuing violence in Syria. Children who have suffered, lost loved ones, and witnessed horrific atrocities can be forever altered by their trauma. CARE helps them recover and get their lives back on track by providing a variety of educational, [...]

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“It can be hard to be a woman.”

Hanlee (27) works at a garment factory in Laos. The factory is so far from her hometown that she, like many workers, lives in the factory’s dormitory. She dreams of one day owning her own sewing shop, but right now has no choice but to continue working in the factory to earn money. Sometimes she […]

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“My daughters freeze at night.” – on the brink of famine in Yemen

Across the besieged country of Yemen, millions of families are freezing, starving, and homeless. Najla (4) used to live in the warm, sunny, port city of Hodeidah in Yemen with her little sister (2) and her mother. Her father has passed away. In June 2018, as fighting reached Hodeidah, they were forced to flee to […]

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It’s an election year, people – we haven’t got time for outrage

Happy New Year, everyone. I hope you are taking the opportunity to rest up and relax. Because if we thought 2018 was a difficult and disturbing year, 2019 is shaping up to be even bigger. It looks like Australia will have one of the most savage and partisan federal elections in generations. Of course, the […]

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