Impact stories

Mable and her neighbors are already feeling the bitter consequences of the climate crisis. In response, CARE has launched a climate project with the community to provide farmers with long-term and sustainable solutions.

In this camp of displaced people in southern Zambia no one is forgotten. They share their food. They cook for each other. They support each other. They have become a community. A big family. They survive all together.

In Zambia, people are increasingly exposed to the consequences of extreme weather. Rainfall is heavier, the duration of rainy seasons is reducing, and dams are breaking regularly.

“The house was flooded one day and started tilting, I heard the plates crashing to the ground first. In the night it collapsed,” remembers Fenni.

Buumba Chilimba, 45, mother of seven, is a small-scale farmer in southern Zambia who has been struggling with the extreme weather events caused by climate change.

In Zambia, people such as Chuma and her grandchildren are feeling the consequences of the climate crisis brutally and clearly: the dry seasons are getting longer, the soil is drying out. Between January and March of 2023, almost 375,000 people were…

First developed in 1999, the Strengthening Opportunities for Adolescent Resilience (SOAR) is a multi-country initiative working with Ministries of Education to provide accelerated education for out-of-school adolescents, particularly girls, enabling them…

You know what inspires me most about CARE’s COVID-19 vaccine work? The number of times I’ve heard someone say that one of the key ways to convince people to get COVID-19 vaccines is to have CARE staff share the message.

“These days things have changed. My husband supports me and in taking the child to under 5 appointments. [Husband] cooks and prepares the food for all to eat and we even laugh together now.”