Asia and the Pacific
Bangladesh ranks 133 out of 189 on the Human Development Index (HDI). CARE International started its operations in Bangladesh in 1949, and today is one of our largest country offices. We also work in Cox’s Bazar, the world’s largest refugee camp.
CARE International started its operations in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) in 1949 and today is one of our largest country offices.
Since Bangladesh gained independence in 1971, CARE International's programming has focused on:
CARE International works in Cox's Bazar, the world's largest refugee camp, which hosts hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingyas who fled from Myanmar. In addition to Cox's Bazar, CARE International works across other refugee camps to provide shelter, water and sanitation, cash vouchers, and sexual and reproductive health services.
Since 2020, CARE Bangladesh has been responding to COVID-19. Response efforts include helping to improve vaccination rates by speaking with communities and individuals to increase vaccine acceptance, and helping people who do not have access to smart phones or technology with registering and attending vaccine appointments. CARE International also trains volunteers to support vaccine registration and community awareness.
As the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction approaches, CARE and partners highlight the urgent need for gender-focused climate solutions. “By 2050, climate change could push 158 million women and girls into poverty."
Floods due to the highest rainfall recorded in the last 30 years, have flooded 11 districts in northeast and southeast Bangladesh, impacting nearly 3 million people. “Such incidents once again remind us of the extreme impacts of climate change," says Ram Das, CARE Bangladesh Country Director
A devastating fire broke out at one of the Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar on May 24, 2024 causing significant destruction in its wake.
Over seven decades, CARE Bangladesh has been a long-standing development partner for Bangladesh. Keeping gender at the core, CARE Bangladesh has partnered with local and national organizations to embark on locally led and globally scaled solutions.
A look at the refugee crisis in Myanmar and CARE International's activities in the region.
Between 25 August 2017 and now, over 700,000 people from Myanmar have fled to Bangladesh (ISCG Report, July 19, 2018), following an escalation of violence in the Northern Rakhine State from 25 August onwards.
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.
