Read stories showcasing the human impact of CARE's work around the world.
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…
Find out how Malawi saved lives, and got a $4 return for every $1 invested.
Um Mohammed, 46, lost her husband in an airstrike in Hama, and her house was destroyed. She moved with her son Mohammed, his children -- Aisha, 7, Ghousson, 5, and Mohammed, 3 -- her daughter and 4-year-old granddaughter to a small village in the…
After years of war in Syria, Fatmeh and her family make their living in Lebanon while they await their chance to return to a safer Syria. Fatmeh dreams of only one thing: to go back one day to Syria and finish her studies. ‘I want to transmit the love of…
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.
Ali, 42, is a cattle merchant. He used to own farms, machines and water wells in Syria, but his story is that of displacement, like millions of others. Ali said goodbye to his town in Dara’a in Southern Syria, after he lost everything he owned to the…
CARE’s Women Economic Empowerment program helped Heba find the inner strength that helped her to achieve her dream of opening a clinical laboratory.
Amani* is from a small town in Eastern Ghouta, where all the houses were flattened to the ground. Life was unbearable. Amani left her husband there to look for a place to protect her children from the airstrikes. She finally settled in a camp set on…
How do we get key players to value women if they don’t even know they’re there?
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.
