Impact stories

Most farmers know they will never grow enough to feed their families, and the rainy seasons are getting shorter and less predictable.

68 people from CARE teams in 14 countries around the world joined in the process to read 48 project evaluations and pull out evidence about the social and empowerment changes VSLAs can bring. Here’s what women have to say about the changes VSLA mean in…

From 2013 to 2017 CARE implemented the Somali Girls Education Promotion Project, part of the Department for International Development’s Girl’s Education Challenge. Focused on improving educational outcomes the project reached more than 18,000 girls to…

The Economic Support for COVID-19 Affected Women program ran from March to September 2021 with $100,000 in support form the Tiffany Foundation. It reached 1,200 women directly, and 6,000 people indirectly.

During this past fiscal year, 244 CARE projects and initiatives worked to prevent and respond to gender-based violence (GBV) with 12% of projects fully focusing on addressing GBV and a further 45% mainstreaming GBV prevention and response approaches into…

Funded by the Kendeda Fund, the Tipping Point Initiative addresses root causes of child, early, and forced marriage (CEFM) in Nepal and Bangladesh.

“Me and my wife share ideas and dreams. We have a plan now to have a good house. It took a long time to come to this. Now we have our permanent house. During [training] we sat together and had two visions – the first is to put our kids in school, and…

The PROFIT Financial Graduation project ran from 2016-2019 with $1.8 million in funding from the government of Kenya. CARE reached more than 1,000 families in the Kitui district of Kenya.

CARE, MARS, and the women of Cote d’Ivoire partnered to change that Women for Change ran in Cote d’Ivoire from 2015-2018 with the generous support of MARS chocolate. With $711,000 we reached 4,900 people directly and 24,500 people indirectly.