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5 Min Inspiration: Reducing hunger by addressing GBV
If women and girls are more hungry than men and boys, the solution is more food, right? Actually, no. Gender inequality means men and women experience food insecurity in different ways.
If women and girls are more hungry than men and boys, the solution is more food, right? Actually, no. Gender inequality means men and women experience food insecurity in different ways.
Since 2008, CARE and Cargill's 34 joint projects in 13 countries have reached more than 4.6 million people, 600,000 people directly and 4 million indirectly. More than 2.4 million of those reached are women.
The Kukua ni Kujifunza project (Growing is Learning) ran from 2017-2021 in Tanzania and reached 9,685 people directly and 24,272 indirectly.
The Integrated Humanitarian Assistance Project worked with $5 million in funding to help 309,416 people directly reduce the impacts they were facing from COVID-19 in Sudan.
Since 2018 CARE has been working with partners to address gaps which undermine women’s meaningful participation in decision-making in humanitarian contexts.
Kelle is training other Ugandans to use climate smart farming, so they can recover from the shocks of climate change and conflict.
Here’s something that some would have never considered: eating a fish head proves equality at home.
"I can go to the Health Center to ask for services without someone's permission" – Female PROJEUNES Project Participant
By September of 2022, the global food crisis had gotten so extreme that 205.1 million people urgently needed humanitarian food assistance just to survive. Tragically, if we do nothing to invest in long-term food systems, the crisis could worsen fourfold in just 6 months.
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.