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It’s women who eat least and last.

Today there are over 950 million people affected by the global hunger crisis and 3 in 5 of them are women.

That’s equivalent to 190 million more women facing food insecurity than men. And the gap is widening.

Hunger is an extreme threat to women’s lives, their health, safety and their choices and opportunities. But we know that it’s women who hold incredible power and potential when it comes to ensuring a community’s health and wellbeing.

Today, you can be part of the solution.

Your lifesaving gift could help deliver:

  • emergency food to help women survive the immediate crisis.
  • farming tools and training so women can grow crops in challenging conditions and provide an income and food for their families.
  • Financial help for women, so they can lead their families out of hunger and poverty long term.

Your urgent gift today will show your support for the survival, skills and potential of women and provide the tools and resources they need to help feed themselves, their families and even entire communities.

Missra’s Story

Missra is only 20, and she’s trying to keep two small children alive through one of the worst droughts Ethiopia has ever seen.

For Missra being hungry is hard enough. But watching her children starve is heartbreaking. Like most mothers, Missra eats least and last so her children can have more. But it means she is now so malnourished she can barely breast feed her one-year-old baby. There is simply not enough food to sustain them all.

“I feed my children first. They starve so fast, but I can only give them a small handful.”

A few years ago, CARE supporters funded small business training for Missra. She started a business selling fruit and vegetables — and her earnings helped the family survive the first phase of the drought.

Today Missra needs your continued support so she can, against the odds, start to rebuild a future for her family again.

Thanks to CARE, I know I will find a way to feed my family again.”

© Sarah Easter

Please give now to help women lead their families out of hunger.

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