The Garment Industry in Cambodia

The garment sector in Cambodia employs approximately 600,000 people and up to 85% of workers are women with a vast majority migrating from their home provinces for employment.  Although women workers predominate the garment industry, sexual harassment is an issue.  CARE’s research study, I know I cannot quit.’ The Prevalence and Productivity Cost of Sexual […]

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 […]

Value women’s work

In Cambodia, women working in the construction sector deserve to be seen. They deserve to be recognised and treated fairly. Value women; value women's work. Our colleagues in CARE Cambodia have produced this wonderful film about the Labour Rights for Female Construction Workers project. Funded by the Austrian Development Cooperation and the European Union, it [...]

“I want to come to school every day”

In Cambodia, children from ethnic minority backgrounds once struggled in the school system. Classes were taught in Khmer: a language they did not speak. But the introduction of a multilingual education program has been a gamechanger.

Supporting women. Defeating poverty.

Supporting women and girls. Defeating poverty.

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