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About this charity

CARE is an international humanitarian aid organisation fighting global poverty, with a special focus on working with women and girls to bring lasting change to their communities. As a non-religious and non-political organisation, CARE works with communities to help overcome poverty by supporting development and providing emergency relief where it is needed most.

Last year, CARE assisted 122 million people across 84 countries through 1,015 poverty-fighting projects.

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Empower women to be community leaders in Vanuatu Vanuatu

This project works in the Tafea Province of Vanuatu to promote the inclusion of women in leadership positions and address the social norms that perpetuate violence against women and girls.

AUD 17,510

Raised from 5,013 people

Help women build livelihoods in Vietnam Viet Nam

This project is helping ethnic minority women in Vietnam improve their farming techniques, access new markets, and become leading coffee producers in their community.

AUD 20,014

Raised from 6,009 people

Train female soy farmers in Tanzania Tanzania

This project will support women farmers in Iringa District, Tanzania to improve their crop yields, learn how to improve their families’ nutrition and increase their income by producing and marketing soy products.

AUD 20,010

Raised from 6,122 people

Provide Communities with Clean Water in Zimbabwe Zimbabwe

This project will provide communities with clean water, build toilets and taps in schools, reduce the risk of disease outbreak, educate people about hygiene, and help women and girls spend less time collecting water.

AUD 25,003

Raised from 7,296 people

Educate Girls in Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea

This project will improve access to primary school education in the remote, disadvantaged communities and increase the enrolment and retention of girls in primary schools by training teachers, building classrooms ad providing literacy tools and learning materials.

AUD 25,007

Raised from 7,305 people

Boost Sustainable Coffee Production in Laos Lao PDR

This coffee project will train poor farmers to increase their yields, produce higher quality coffee, and connect them with international markets, helping them lift their families out of poverty. By diversifying farming practices, families will also develop skills to plant and grow other crops and improve their overall nutrition.

AUD 25,027

Raised from 8,259 people

Train Female Soy Farmers in Tanzania Tanzania

AUD 25,016

Raised from 8,323 people

Safe Access to Jobs for Migrant Women in Myanmar Myanmar

This project aims to help women migrants from rural areas, who are at great risk of exploitation, find safe employment, gain protections against violence and access health services and other support in urban cities in Myanmar.

AUD 25,002

Raised from 7,812 people

Improving Children's Education in Timor-Leste Timor-Leste

To deliver quality education resources for students and teachers in schools across Timor-Leste. This will in turn help to raise the people out of their current cycle of poverty.

AUD 25,001

Raised from 8,059 people

Protecting Lives in Vanuatu Vanuatu

In March 2015, the people of Vanuatu were hit by one of the most devastating cyclones in the nation’s history, Cyclone Pam. The YUMI strong project is working with the government and 14 remote island communities to ensure the people of Vanuatu are stronger and better prepared to survive a future natural disaster.

AUD 25,193

Raised from 7,183 people

Women's small business enterprises, Vietnam Viet Nam

This project supports women from the poorest communities in rural Vietnam by providing financial education and training and other opportunities to improve their lives. The women form Village Savings and Loans groups where members save each week, pool their savings, and access loans with reasonable interest.

AUD 25,005

Raised from 8,878 people

Early Childhood Education, Myanmar Myanmar

To improve community-based early childhood education and health in 44 rural villages in Myanmar.

AUD 25,000

Raised from 10,031 people

Women's financial literacy, Malawi Malawi

CARE will work with 20,000 women from 1,000 village savings and loans groups in Lilongwe, Dowa and Kasungu Districts, to overcome chronic hunger by expanding their farms or micro-businesses. It will facilitate women’s access to finance, training and markets.

AUD 25,004

Raised from 10,275 people

Clean water for ethnic communities, Laos Lao PDR

This project will support some of the poorest and most remote ethnic groups in Phongsaly, Sekong and Sayabouri Provinces in Laos by delivering clean water systems, improved levels of nutrition and health, and generating new income opportunities.

AUD 25,002

Raised from 12,304 people

Supporting rural families, Cambodia Cambodia

This program will support poor, rural farming families in Ratanakiri and Koh Kong Provinces through farmer training, provision of water and sanitation services, health programs and development of home gardens.

AUD 25,000

Raised from 11,523 people

Healthy mothers and babies, Cambodia Cambodia

CARE will work with local partners and community health workers in Koh Kong and Mondulkiri provinces to deliver a range of low cost, community based and sustainable strategies to improve reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health.

AUD 25,003

Raised from 11,116 people

HIV prevention & education, Hanoi Viet Nam

Training courses for health workers to improve health care access and enforce legal protections, supply educational materials and support hospital based services for people living with HIV/Aids in 8 hospitals in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Quang Ninh and Thanh Hoah districts.

AUD 50,002

Raised from 21,479 people

Establish village goat banks, Saysathan district Lao PDR

Reduce rural poverty by creating sustainable incomes from a 'goat bank'

AUD 27,002

Raised from 11,164 people

Drought & farming program, Eastern Highlands Papua New Guinea

Teach 8000 highlanders how to culture drought resistant crops, increase food security and improve nutrition.

AUD 20,408

Raised from 7,405 people

Mini Market and Bus Shelter Timor-Leste

Develop rural transportation and market infrastructure to encourage entrepreneurship and link rural communities with essential services in two sub-districts of Bobonaro.

AUD 20,412

Raised from 8,185 people