Impact stories

Participatory Watershed Management in Nghia village, Ban Cong commune, Ba Thuoc district, Thanh Hoa province, Vietnam.

In the community of Mabote the Xindzala baskets of Mozambique have a long tradition. “My grandmother used to wrap her children in blankets and carry them on her head in bigger versions of the same baskets we make today,” says the village association…

In the district of Meconta, in the Nampula province of Mozambique, most families live on less than one dollar a day

By Julia Newton-Howes, the chief executive of CARE in Australia. She is currently visiting CARE projects in Zimbabwe. The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe so far has affected 70,640 people and caused the death of more than 3,400 persons (WHO figures, as of…

Jawad Harb is a Palestinian living in Rafah, Gaza, with his wife and six children. Harb has worked with CARE since 2002, managing a program supporting women’s centres in Gaza. Since the conflict began Dec. 27, Harb’s program has stopped operating because…

Côte d’Ivoire was once recognized as a model of political stability and economic prosperity in West Africa. However, since 1999 it has been host to political and ethnic conflicts that have resulted in the displacement of thousands of people. Despite…

'Often I don’t sleep at night as I dream of new things, new possibilities’, says Mariana when asked about the future of her children. Four years after the Backyard

"I am from the village of Ntamugenga which is near Rutshuru. On the 28th October during the night there was a lot of shooting during the night and when we heard it we were very worried and didn’t know what to do. There was then more than just shooting,…

At 22 years old, Matilde Alfiado and her friends aren’t afraid to ask for condoms. In the northern Mozambican costal village of Vilanculos, HIV/AIDS prevalence has reached 12.5% and general understanding of HIV is low.