Read stories showcasing the human impact of CARE's work around the world.
The Peri Urban Community Driven Models for Equitable Services (COMEQS) Solid Waste Project ran from 2014-2018 in two peri-urban settlements of Lusaka District (Chipata and Ng’ombe). The project received $1.5 million in support from UKAID and Comic Relief…
This regional strategy focusing food and nutrition security for people in Southern Africa aims to impact 10 million people by 2020, and has so far impacted 3.6 million people to improve their food and nutrition.
The humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) deteriorated dramatically in 2017
It’s an intersection between health, business and job creation. And, according to those women involved, it’s also saved lives.
If you live in Zambia, you support the rest of your community.
Capacity building runs the risk of being a development-speak word that means everything and nothing. But in Zambia, building capacity with civil society partners was the key to increasing the use of data in government decision-making.
The school motto, printed on the white board in the little school office, is simple: “Education is a necessity”. It is appropriate. A firm belief in that simple truth led the people of this community in Chipata, Zambia, to establish the Mchini Basic…
Matteo Zulu points out over his fields. They don’t look like much now, still dry and barren from the cold season, but come the rains these fields will flood and become ideal for growing four acres of the best rice you’ve ever tasted. Matteo is a walking…
The road to Kabiya village, in the eastern province of Zambia, is red and dusty. Tobacco fields stretch off in either direction. Christine Jere sits on the ground outside her mud-and-thatch hut in Kabiya and tells the story of how she nearly died of AIDS.
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.
