How realizing their potential helps women close the gap
Women in Ethiopia are realizing their potential and working with men to close the gender gap. Find out how.
Impact stories
Read stories showcasing the human impact of CARE's work around the world.
How getting women access to information can triple income
One of the big challenges for food security around the world is that women farmers have so little access to information and extension workers.
How CARE is working with communities and survivors to respond to gender-based violence
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
How CARE is working with communities to prevent gender-based violence
Across 16 projects in 13 countries, CARE projects contributed to a 25 percentage point increase in the percentage of women and men who say that it is never justifiable for a husband to beat his wife—no matter the reason.
How better human rights are Made By Women
"Because we came together as a group, we have been able to gain the benefits that we should have already had."
Enhancing and empowering women's political participation
After participating in CARE’s PEACE II Project in Palestine, women’s political participation went up 66%.
How women’s solidarity earns a quarter of a million dollars
Higher and more stable wages for themselves, higher wages for men, and more decision-making power at home.
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…
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?