Our Supporters

We encourage the companies we work with to: provide valuable funding, give advice and expertise, act as project partners and positively change the social impact of their operations.

	The Allianz Group, a leading insurance company, has teamed up with CARE to design micro-insurance products for communities affected by the tsunami in southern India. The partnership will design a series of tailor-made life and non-life insurance products for fishermen and farm workers in high risk coastal areas.
	Anglo American, one of the world’s largest mining companies, has provided funding for our economic and social inclusion project for young people in Brazil. In Zimbabwe, Anglo American has funded our market access, savings and loans, and relief work.
	The Arab Banking Corporation, or ABC Bank as it is also known, has worked with CARE in the Middle East for three years, funding our EMPOWERS water project across Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza and Egypt.
	International law firm Ashurst has been a highly valued partner of CARE’s for more than ten years. As well as giving fee-free legal support, Ashurst also donates other professional and office services in support of CARE’s corporate functions.
	The Bank of England has supported CARE by matching the donations of its employees and donating these amounts to CARE in an unrestricted way. These funds enable us to use them where they are needed most.
	Following the devastating 2004 tsunami, Carlton Publishing produced a book with author Geoff Tibballs on the disaster and chose to donate five per cent of the profits to CARE to enable us to help survivors to rebuild their lives.
	The earthquake that struck Pakistan, India and Afghanistan on October 8, 2005, left 86,000 people dead and 3.3 million homeless and vulnerable. Daimler Chrysler, the vehicle manufacturer, generously contributed more than £50,000 to CARE’s relief and development work in the region.
	Ecotricity is one of the greenest energy suppliers around, investing more per customer in building new renewable energy than all the other suppliers put together. Ecotricity also gives a donation to CARE every time one of our supporters signs up
	Emirates is the international airline of the United Arab Emirates, based in Dubai. Emirates has supported CARE International since 2004, launching the partnership with a donation of 1 million Skywards miles for use by CARE staff to work on our projects around the world.
	One of the biggest banks in the world, HSBC, donated £35,000 to CARE in 2005 for our EMPOWERS water project which works across Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza and Egypt - an ambitious project with significant implications for the whole region. It aims to improve long-term access to water for vulnerable populations through more effective local integrated water resource management.
	Innocent drinks are funding two of our exciting organic fruit-growing projects in the rainforest and desert regions of Ecuador, enabling hundreds of families to set up associations, farming and producing organic prickly pear, pineapple, papaya and namuka, an indigenous fruit.
	Thanks to generous funding of £275,000 from Marks & Spencer, we’ve been able to rebuild three villages in Sri Lanka devastated by the Boxing Day tsunami. The villages on the coast of Galle were completely destroyed in the disaster.
	Ethical Consumer magazine recently rated the Phone Co-op as the ‘Best Buy’ for line rental and broadband services. It also generously donates funds to CARE every time a CARE supporter signs up for Phone Co-op services.
	Starbucks has supported CARE for 15 years and donated more than $3 million (£1.5m) for development programmes in coffee growing parts of the world, including Costa Rica, Guatemala, Indonesia and Ethiopia. Starbucks employees are competing in our Adventure Challenge event programme in summer 2007.