The Garment Industry in Cambodia

The garment sector in Cambodia employs approximately 600,000 people and up to 85% of workers are women with a vast majority migrating from their home provinces for employment.  Although women workers predominate the garment industry, sexual harassment is an issue.  CARE’s research study, I know I cannot quit.’ The Prevalence and Productivity Cost of Sexual […]

Four ways you’re helping families through emergencies

It is sometimes overwhelming to be reminded of the many conflicts and natural disasters going on around us. But it’s only through sharing these stories that we can raise awareness and the funds required to do something to help those in peril and suffering. Here are four examples, from four countries enduring emergencies, where your […]

Thank you for helping mothers like Dana

This February we set out to raise $200,000 to help give mothers like Dana a chance to  start their lives again after fleeing conflict. Thanks to your incredible generosity, we are thrilled so say we reached our target! On behalf of mothers like Dana everywhere, thank you so much for helping to protect children and […]

Savings Groups Creating Independent Women

Thanks to our generous supporters, in 1991 CARE launched a transformative program in Niger that would change the world. It harnessed the ancient practice of group savings in an innovative concept called Village Savings & Loan Associations or VSLAs. The groups offered communities without formal financial services – and women in particular – a safe way to save […]

Spotlight on Yemen

CARE’s Karl-Otto Zentel visited Yemen in 2017 and answers five burning questions about the crisis affecting more than 22 million people. To what extent has the situation for Yemenis deteriorated? After another two years of war, the current situation is disastrous. More than 10,000 people have died so far during brutal conflict, and about 17 […]

The first female graduate in PNG

CARE has worked with coffee industry stakeholders in Papua New Guinea (PNG) for more than three years to help the industry be more inclusive of women. The Coffee Industry Graduate Program aims to increase the number of women working in positions that give training to coffee farmers. Alma Lance is the first female graduate to […]

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