CARE
CARE helps raise awareness about epidemic diseases so girls like Aimee can get access to life-saving medical care. She is holding a picture of her grandmother who died from Ebola.
CARE also encourages girls like Hadiza, who had to flee violence in Nigeria, to continue to pursue education
CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere) is a major international humanitarian agency that delivers emergency relief during a crisis and maintains long-term international development projects. Founded in 1945, CARE is non-governmental, and is one of the largest and oldest humanitarian aid organizations focused on fighting global poverty. When it was first established in the United States after World War II, CARE sent "CARE packages" of food and household goods to Europe where large numbers of people were starving as the continent recovered from the war. CARE has since spread across the globe. In 2016, CARE reported working in 94 countries, supporting 962 poverty-fighting projects and humanitarian aid projects, and reaching over 80 million people and 256 million people indirectly.
CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere) is a major international humanitarian agency that delivers emergency relief during a crisis and maintains long-term international development projects. Founded in 1945, CARE is non-governmental, and is one of the largest and oldest humanitarian aid organizations focused on fighting global poverty. When it was first established in the United States after World War II, CARE sent "CARE packages" of food and household goods to Europe where large numbers of people were starving as the continent recovered from the war. CARE has since spread across the globe. In 2016, CARE reported working in 94 countries, supporting 962 poverty-fighting projects and humanitarian aid projects, and reaching over 80 million people and 256 million people indirectly.
CARE's programs in the developing world address a broad range of topics including emergency response, food security (delivering food), clean water, economic development, climate change, agriculture, and health. One of its biggest initiatives is to help more girls get equal access to education, which is directly tied to their future success and eventually ending the cycle of poverty. CARE works at the local, national, and international levels for policy change (new laws) and the rights of poor people. Within each of these areas, CARE focuses particularly on empowering and meeting the needs of women and girls and promoting gender equality.
CARE's programs in the developing world address a broad range of topics including emergency response, food security (delivering food), clean water, economic development, climate change, agriculture, and health. One of its biggest initiatives is to help more girls get equal access to education, which is directly tied to their future success and eventually ending the cycle of poverty. CARE works at the local, national, and international levels for policy change (new laws) and the rights of poor people. Within each of these areas, CARE focuses particularly on empowering and meeting the needs of women and girls and promoting gender equality.
CARE's well-known "I am Powerful" campaign launched in the USA in September 2006 and was intended to bring public attention to the organization's long-standing focus on women's empowerment. CARE states that its programs focus on women and girls both because the world's poor are disproportionately female and because women's empowerment through education is thought to be an important driver of development. CARE also emphasizes that it considers working with boys and men an important part of women's empowerment, and that women's empowerment benefits both genders
CARE's well-known "I am Powerful" campaign launched in the USA in September 2006 and was intended to bring public attention to the organization's long-standing focus on women's empowerment. CARE states that its programs focus on women and girls both because the world's poor are disproportionately female and because women's empowerment through education is thought to be an important driver of development. CARE also emphasizes that it considers working with boys and men an important part of women's empowerment, and that women's empowerment benefits both genders
CARE International is a confederation of fourteen CARE National Members, each of which acts as an independent non-profit, non-governmental organization. However, there are many projects in developing countries that do not have a National Member present. In 2014, CARE had over 200 projects in 28 African nations, which amounted to the participation of almost 20 million people. The organization does most of its fundraising through donations. Individuals who want to donate to CARE can simply give money to the organization, or they can choose exactly how their donation will be spent through CARE's "gift catalog." In the Gift Catalog, donors select from a variety of gift options that vary in price; donors can select from books and school supplies, 2 goats, emergency food, lifesaving medicine, and others.
CARE International is a confederation of fourteen CARE National Members, each of which acts as an independent non-profit, non-governmental organization. However, there are many projects in developing countries that do not have a National Member present. In 2014, CARE had over 200 projects in 28 African nations, which amounted to the participation of almost 20 million people. The organization does most of its fundraising through donations. Individuals who want to donate to CARE can simply give money to the organization, or they can choose exactly how their donation will be spent through CARE's "gift catalog." In the Gift Catalog, donors select from a variety of gift options that vary in price; donors can select from books and school supplies, 2 goats, emergency food, lifesaving medicine, and others.