Read stories showcasing the human impact of CARE's work around the world.
Access to basic care, support from their families, and being able to make decisions about their own bodies are critical tools that are helping women in Afghanistan stay safe—backed by the support of their communities.
“When fighting breaks out, it is the pregnant women and children who suffer the most”. This is what Angelina tells me, a mother who had come for an antenatal visit to one of our CARE health facilities.
The 32 year old mother of four comes from Riak village in Unity state, three hours walk from Mankein. Riak once had a smart health facility complete with medical equipment and a pharmacy, but that was before the crisis that plunged South Sudan into chaos…
''On a recent fieldtrip to the Far West (July 2013), I was really impressed to meet a Mother’s Group and their Female Community Health Volunteer (FCHV) and to learn about the technique that has been developed, and which they are using, to keep track of…
March 8, 2012 (GENEVA) — This International Women’s Day, CARE isn’t just celebrating women’s empowerment. The poverty-fighting organization is measuring it too, centimeter by centimeter.
CARE is working in Bihar, India under the Integrated Family Health Initiative (IFHI) to improve Maternal and Newborn Healthcare practices, including the quality of care.
They were sitting on wooden chairs beneath two large mango trees next to a little banana plantation: a group of 35 women and 10 men
Yasodha Ojha, an auxiliary nurse mid-wife (ANM), works in Mauwanagardaha health post in Doti district since past several years. She is known in the area for being kind and helpful. In this course that she met a fifth time pregnant,
On the dry and dusty floor of the Ethiopian Rift Valley, the reality of discrimation is starkly apparent. For girls here, it begins at birth. When a boy is born, there is clapping, shouting and singing, and celebratory shots are fired in the air.
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.
