Aid agency CARE Australia denounces the next instalment of projected cuts to the aid program, announced in today’s Federal Budget. CARE Australia chief executive Sally Moyle said while this year’s aid budget had been increased by 2% – or – $84 million, by 2020-21 the projected growth has been cut,…

  CARE Australia welcomes the Federal Government’s commitment of $10 million to support people facing starvation and other effects of ongoing conflict in Yemen. The aid agency’s Chief Executive Sally Moyle said: “The situation in Yemen is catastrophic. The Australian Government’s funding is vital to help alleviate the suffering. It…

International donors must urgently scale up the response to Somalia’s worsening food crisis to avoid a full scale famine, CARE International warns. Speaking after visiting some of the country’s worst affected areas, CARE’s Somalia Country Director, Raheel Nazir Chaudhary, said many communities remained cut off from lifesaving humanitarian aid. “By…

The Federal Government announced today that six Australian non-government organisations will receive grants totaling $10 million to promote the rights of women and girls. CARE will use the funds towards the Enhancing Women’s Voice to Stop Sexual Harassment (STOP) program across Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam. CARE will work with women and partners…

CARE Australia welcomes the Federal Government’s commitment of an additional $20 million to support the people suffering from severe hunger and malnutrition in South Sudan and Somalia.

Aid organisation CARE International today issued a new report highlighting the top ten most underreported humanitarian crises of 2016. The report, Suffering in Silence, features food crises in Eritrea, Madagascar, North Korea and Papua New Guinea; conflicts in Burundi, Lake Chad Basin, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Sudan and last year’s monsoon floods in Bangladesh.