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CARE braves conflict to deliver aid in Lake Chad

The Lake Chad Basin in western Africa is suffering a complex humanitarian emergency affecting 17 million people across Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria. Conflict and drought have forced more than 2.6 million people to flee their homes and one in every two people are in need of emergency relief. Nearly nine million people are going […]

Combating sexual harassment in Cambodia’s garment industry

Women are central to Cambodia’s economic growth, especially through their employment in the garment industry. More than 600,000 Cambodian women work in the garment industry, many of them having migrated from their home provinces in search of work. Over the last 20 years, Cambodia’s garment industry has grown 250 times to over USD $5 billion, […]

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 […]

Three issues facing women (and how to fix them)

In March, representatives from CARE’s offices all over Asia and the Pacific gathered in Hanoi for six days to share ideas, experiences, challenges and successes of their gender equality programs to help others tackle these three major issues facing women and preventing communities from overcoming poverty: Women’s Economic Empowerment In many countries, it is traditional […]

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 [...]

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