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Planting Seeds in Timor-Leste

In a small, tight-knit community in Timor-Leste, one woman is inspiring change, empowering others, and building a resilient future. Meet Petronella, a dedicated leader who has turned her participation in CARE Australia's Disaster READY Project into a platform for profound, life-changing initiatives. Planting seeds: Petronella is the Group Leader for her community's women-only savings group. [...]

After 4 Months of War, Humanitarian Leaders Urge Action to End the Tragedy in Sudan

CARE are one of 20 signatories of a statement released today by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee: NEW YORK/GENEVA/ROME, 15 August 2023 – For four gruesome months, the people of Sudan have been engulfed in a war that is destroying their lives and their homeland, and violating their basic human rights. People have witnessed […]

Statement by CARE Australia on the Voice Referendum

May 2023 For 75 years, CARE has worked around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice. We work in partnership with local communities to support those affected by humanitarian crises and tackle the underlying causes of poverty to create transformative change. Whilst CARE Australia does not program in Australia, our position […]

What About Somalia?

Recently, I was reading a story from one of CARE’s partners here in Somalia. The story was about a two-year-old named Ubah who had been admitted on the cusp of death to one of the local health facilities. What was wrong? What was happening? Ubah was starving. Her family could not afford to provide food […]

Our Five Fave Photos From 2021

We found five photographers living in communities where CARE Australia works, and asked them to share their favourite images that depict daily life, and capture the ways that supporting women helps defeat poverty. We found five photographers living in communities where CARE Australia works, and asked them to share their favourite images that depict daily […]

A wellbeing budget needed both near and far, says CARE Australia

Australia has incrementally increased its aid budget and whilst this is a step in the right direction, there is still the risk of missing a critical opportunity to better tackle poverty and rising humanitarian needs regionally and globally, aid agency CARE Australia has warned. With the 2023-24 Federal Budget, Australia does only a little to [...]

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