We are proud to announce that our Chief Executive Sally Moyle has been nominated as one of the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence 2018.The list features women working across a spectrum of industries with a strong sense of commitment to a cause. This year, nominees were chosen based on their demonstration of self-leadership, […]
Australia helping to keep refugee children in school in Jordan
CARE Australia is thrilled by the Department of Home Affairs’ decision to increase funding to assist the refugee crisis in Jordan. It will help some of the world’s most vulnerable people to lift themselves out of poverty. Since the war in Syria started in 2011, more than 655,000 Syrians have fled to safety in neighbouring […]
The delicate dance of gender equality in Australia’s foreign policy
The Australian Government wants global gender equality. The Foreign Minister has championed it across Australia’s aid program and foreign policy, and the Minister for Defence wants to make the women, peace and security agenda ‘part of the DNA’ of the Defence Department’s work. And so they should: there are many, many good reasons to promote gender […]
Growing is Learning
Nearly half the population of Tanzania lives below the poverty line. Despite working long hours in the field, women farmers find it incredibly difficult to produce enough nutritious food for their families. Thanks to your generosity, CARE has established the Growing is Learning project, in which women farmers are trained in the production of soy. […]
Three years of conflict in Yemen
Hind Abbas is a Communication Assistant for CARE International Yemen. Here she shares her experiences over the three years of war in her country. March 26,2015, was the day that war began and the lives of millions of Yemenis was forever altered. As aircraft filled the skies over what is considered the Middle East’s poorest […]
“The last seven years feel like twenty…”
A quarter of Syria’s pre-war population has fled the country. Inside the country more than 6 million people are homeless. Hundreds of thousands are living under siege. “For millions of men, women and children the past seven years have meant losing their home, moving from one place to the other in search of safety, sometimes […]