Impact stories

The South and East Darfur Emergency Assistance Project ran from 2017-2018 with $1.2 million in funding by the US Government’s Office of Foreign and Disaster Assistance (OFDA). It reached 309,981 people. The project is continuing through 2019 for a new…

“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.

TESFA has received funding from the Nike Foundation and Johnson and Johnson. Phase 1 ran from 2011-2014, and phase 2 from 2015-2018, which reached 4,400 people directly.

The Strengthening Livelihoods through Community Adaptation and Learning project operated in West Bank and Gaza from 2014 to 2017. It was funded with $4.1 million through the German Ministry of Development (BMZ), and reached more than 11,600 people…

“We’re not yet 100% equal, but because we’re helping our families, our husbands and other men are looking at us with respect, not violence. We’re no longer ‘good for nothing’ like they used to call us. That comforts us.”

CARE partnered with Womena and Oxfam to pilot Ruby cups with refugee women using ECHO funding. What did we learn? It really works.

The Social Entrepreneurship: A Step Towards Independence (SESTI) project ran from 2016-2018 in Montenegro with support from the EU and the Austrian Development Agency. It had a budget of $200,000, and reached 450 people directly and 6,000 people…