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Women and men in Ethiopia are setting up self-managed savings groups to open new economic opportunities and ensure lasting financial stability.

Persistent absence from school is the major cause of lower achievement and poor progress in secondary education for most girls in Buhera District, Zimbabwe. Statistics show that boys have a higher full-attendance rate than girls. Some girls in Buhera miss school regularly, particularly during their menstruation cycle.

CARE International in Zimbabwe, through the Global Affairs Canada (GAC)-funded Supporting Transition, Retention and Training for Girls (START4Girls) project, is working with local stakeholders to challenge community perceptions and build awareness around the barriers that young women face in accessing education and the role that key community members and stakeholders can play in encouraging and supporting young women to access education in the Buhera and Mutare rural districts of Zimbabwe.

Currently, 1.4 million children in Somalia are impacted by the drought. CARE helps affected families to ensure that girls like Hamdi, who dreams of becoming a Minister of Education, can go to school.

An entire village of pastoralists now relies on one water tank delivery per month to survive - people have lost their livelihoods and are struggling to meet the most basic needs.

The village where Asha Mohammed and her eight children live has not even enough drinking water. She described the daily hardship of living without water for her family's most basic needs.

Maria and Ohban are volunteer drivers for a student organization in Ukraine that delivers emergency relief items for people affected by the war.

After being forced to flee the war with her 12-years-old daughter, Tetyana has received psychosocial support to cope with the traumatic experience

Hanna and her husband Danylo lived in the basement before being forced to abandon their life-long house in just 10 minutes to escape the war