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Walk In Her Shoes

Walk In Her Shoes

Poverty disproportionately affects women. Walk 10,000 steps a day for a week and feel part of their struggle.

Women are disproportionately affected by poverty. CARE International supporters brave the cold to raise awareness of Walk in Her Shoes. Walk 10,000 steps a day for a week and feel part of their struggle.

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CARE International ranked in world's top 10 NGOs twice!

CARE International ranked in world's top 10 NGOs twice!

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CARE International is thrilled to announce we are ranked in the world’s top 10 NGOs in two separate lists this week.

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Millions face food crisis in Chad and Niger

Millions face food crisis in Chad and Niger

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Malnutrition rates are approaching emergency thresholds and the situation continues to deteriorate.

A food and nutritional crisis is unfolding in the Sahel belt of North Africa, affecting millions of people in Niger and Chad.

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Rapid Response Fund

Rapid Response Fund

Help us be prepared with a donation to our emergency relief fund.

Our Rapid Response Fund ensures we have money to respond as soon as disasters strike. Discover more.

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Lendwithcare.org

Lendwithcare.org

Make a small loan to an entrepreneur in a developing country.

Lendwithcare.org is our fantastic micro-finance lending website. Try it today.

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Staff Blog: Madagascar Cyclone: "hitting the ground running"

John Uniack Davis, CARE Madagascar Country Director. © CARECARE Madagascar's Country Director, John Uniack Davis writes about his experience of the immediate aftermath of the cyclone which hit Madagascar on 14 February. Thanks to CARE Emergency funds, like those you’ve given to the Rapid Response Fund, CARE has been able to provide vital help to those most in need.

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Storm Giovanna hits Madagascar

A Madagascan woman who's home was destroyed in a previous cyclone in 2008. © CARE

An intense tropical cyclone made landfall on the east coast of Madagascar this morning. Assessments have yet to begin, but CARE estimates that around 100,000 people will be affected by wind damage and flooding. CARE will act quickly to bring much needed emergency relief.

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Niger mother: I don't want to loose another child

Dije pounds millet with her daughter, and her two month old baby strapped to her back. The family have survived on one small meal a day for three months now. © Melanie Brooks / CARE

Looking at her baby boy, Abdulahadi, Dije Ousmana has seen the signs before, and she is afraid: diarrhoea, difficulty swallowing, crying for more milk when there is none. But if help is provided now, we can prevent children in Niger from becoming severely malnourished.

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Take a walk in Agnes' Shoes

10 year old Agnes carries this 15 ltr bucket full of water every afternoon, but is happy to only have to carry it 400 metres and be able to collect clean, safe, water. © Josh Estey / CARE

Every afternoon, Agnes walks to a borehole, recently repaired by CARE, providing 300 other families with safe, clean water near their homes and school. It looks like a difficult and tiring task, but the 10-year old is happy to collect clean safe water that is just 400 metres from her home.

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Staff blog: Experience tells me that we can help

Mandefro Mekete, Emergency Operations Coordinator, CARE Ethiopia. His family relied on help from NGOs in the 80s, and the type of help they encountered has helped them to become more resilient ever since. Photo: © Sandra Bulling /CARE

Mandefro Mekete, Emergency Operations Coordinator, CARE Ethiopia, is no stranger to circumstances like those recently afflicting the people of his country. His family suffered similar things in 1984. The effect of the help his family got back then, gives him confidence that families in a similar situation now can gain resilience with the right support.

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Video: Motherhood in Dadaab refugee camp

A mother and her children in Dadaab © CARE

Unable to find food near their homes and unwilling to watch their children die, many mothers from Somalia have gone to seemingly impossible physical extremes, walking hundreds of miles in search of humanitarian aid.

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