“I had no idea how to make a living, but now I know how to save money and reinvest it. I used to sell corn once a year; now it’s several times. We live a better life now. My children go to school; I have no more debt at the health center; visitors get to eat at my house
It is clear that something big is going on in the village of Hajarigoan, northeast Bangladesh. Eighty-nine extremely poor women from the village are busy at work cutting, carrying and packing soil. They are taking part in a cash for work scheme
In the village of Aloarchar, under the union of Porabari, Tangail District, there is a house, wherein is spinning a wheel of fortune – and wherein is brewing a remarkable story of transformation.
It’s four o’clock in the morning and Hawa Hamadou Dibo has just woken up in the little house she shares with her husband and their two children. The house, which only has two rooms, is on the outskirts of the village Ouo Saré in Mali. It’s still dark outside when Hawa starts her morning ritual.
Throughout the small region of Chakhaza in Malawi there are generations of women who were never able to finish primary school. They live in some of the poorest communities in the country, and sadly, in the past have lacked opportunities to help their families escape the cycle of poverty
Salufa, Marianne and Sifa live in a country where as women they have little chance to develop themselves. They have all seized the opportunity to try to do that. All three women are part of a savings and loan group in the vast, often inaccessible rural areas around Mongomba
Dama Godana knows all too well how difficult the life of a pastoralist woman is. In addition to the usual daily household chores of cooking, cleaning and taking care of the children, she has to walk long distances to fetch water and pasture for the small and weak animals during the dry season.
Xhema loves his wife and he loves her “Maze”. No-one else – as he points out – can cook this traditional Kosovar dish as well as Tevide. Nowadays not only his family eats this tasty dish, visitors from all over Kosovo have confirmed his bold statement.
In 1992, when the idea of a microcredit and savings programme emerged from the first project in the Maradi Region (in south central Niger), it was hard to imagine that its impact on rural women would
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.
