How does mobile money lead to glowing families?
Turns out, cash transfers work in Zimbabwe, even when there’s no cash. Learn more.
Impact stories
Read stories showcasing the human impact of CARE's work around the world.
The sewing circle of Arua
Regina arrived at Rhino Camp, a settlement of South Sudanese refugees in Arua district in north west Uganda, in July 2016. She had fled her home South Sudan, with her five siblings and two of her children. Traveling without her husband, life has been…
What would it take to taste happiness?
In Burundi, one woman says the way to taste happiness is with potato seeds, solidarity, and independence. Find out how.
VSLAs in DRC: Solidarity and savings graduate families out of poverty
This story started well before 2016—it starts with the Tuungane project—the first time CARE used VSLAs in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Tuungane was a $114 million DFID-funded project that CARE ran from 2007-2014 in collaboration with IRC. It reached…
Petals of a lotus flower: how CARE helped one woman push past her boundaries through economic empowerment
Despite conflict and hardship in Yemen, 45-year-old Amt- Al Salam is making exceptional efforts to cope with the situation and to fight all norms. With every step she took she was opening a petal one by one. This is her inspiring story.
“Everyone should seek a great purpose in life to serve humanity”
CARE’s Women Economic Empowerment program helped Heba find the inner strength that helped her to achieve her dream of opening a clinical laboratory.
How do you make a company value the invisible
How do we get key players to value women if they don’t even know they’re there?
“Find your passion and achieve it”
Helalah knew what she wanted to do when she grew up. Today, despite the ongoing conflict in Yemen, she continues to hold on to her dreams
Women build nations”: stories of female empowerment in wartime Yemen
Reading and hearing about war in books and movies sounds terrifying but living in it is a different scenario.