Read stories showcasing the human impact of CARE's work around the world.
The village where Asha Mohammed and her eight children live has not even enough drinking water. She described the daily hardship of living without water for her family's most basic needs.
An entire village of pastoralists now relies on one water tank delivery per month to survive - people have lost their livelihoods and are struggling to meet the most basic needs.
Communities are using from innovative agriculture techniques to group savings to face climate change-related water shortages
After participating in Ethiopia's SWEEP project one woman said, “We are now heard; before we used to only listen.”
Pollution from the global apparel industry hurts women and girls the most, since they do most of the work to get clean water at home. Decreasing pollution without cutting jobs is possible. How? By helping women take charge.
“How much is 80 litres of water? If you live in an older house, it’s a 4-minute shower.”
For millions of women and girls, having their period is more like a fight for their dignity than a natural cycle. Dropping out of school, health risks, social exclusion, they suffer the consequences of a taboo that must be broken. In 90 countries around…
The period taboo is one of the sexist stereotypes that affect almost all girls and women around the world. Here is a little tour of the world explaining the daily and concrete impacts of this universal taboo. And what you can do to fight this injustice!
17-year-old Zokiya shares her experiences of fleeing violence in Myanmar and confronting challenges like accessibility and discrimination at her new home in a refugee camp in Bangladesh.
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.
