Internally displaced people (IDP's) recieve distributions from CARE in 2009.
CARE Pakistan re-established operations in June 2005, after being out of the country for more than 25 years.
CARE works in some of the most remote and logistically challenging areas of Pakistan, addressing the underlying causes of poverty. We focus on women, children and marginalised people.
Health
CARE provides health care to thousands of people in remote villages, working with local partners to strengthen existing health facilities and health worker skills; improve community participation; establish mobile health camps and improve health education.
CARE works to improve maternal and child health, ensuring that reproductive health needs of poor people living in under-served areas are met.
CARE is also implementing an avian and pandemic influenza project in North-West Frontier Province, to empower smallholders to detect cases, report them and practise preventive measures.
Education
When disasters, such as earthquakes, strike CARE works to help children resume their studies as quickly and safely as possible.
CARE works in close cooperation with government authorities, communities and parents – especially mothers – to improve education for girls.
Psychosocial Support
CARE pioneered a unique psychosocial program in response to the 2005 earthquake that left more than three million people homeless. The program seeks to lift the spirits of communities isolated by a disaster, and reduce the risk of further trauma, by re-establishing communal activities and structures and reduce fear associated with returning to disaster-affected areas by educating people about how to reduce the impact of future disasters.
Due to the tremendous success of this initiative, CARE has integrated psychosocial support into more of its operations.
Water and Sanitation
CARE works closely with communities to provide water supplies to ensure access to safe drinking water.
CARE meets with villagers to determine the location for latrines, then provides building materials and training for how to construct and maintain the facilities.
Better employment
CARE’s five-year Pakistan Jobs Project focuses on placing at least 100,000 individuals, half of them women, in highly skilled jobs.
Its goal is to encourage Pakistani companies to invest in their staff, improve access to trainings, jobs and business opportunities for youth, and to help increase incomes and productivity.
