Africa - East and Central
Kenya ranks 143 out of 189 on the Human Development Index (HDI). CARE International is the primary provider of basic services in Dadaab refugee camp, which hosts almost half a million people. CARE International also provides longer-term programs in other parts of Kenya.
CARE International has been working in Kenya since 1968. CARE Kenya is the primary provider of basic services in Dadaab, which hosts more than 200,000 refugees and asylum-seekers and is one of the largest refugee camps in the world. Basic services include food, water and sanitation, and emergency aid to newly arrived refugees, especially children who are suffering from malnutrition. Families are provided with two weeks' worth of food rations and other essentials, including tents, kitchen sets, firewood and fuel-efficient stoves.
We also have longer-term programs, including assisting refugees with employment opportunities, education, water and sanitation systems, and protection and safety, including preventing gender-based violence.
CARE International's work in Kenya focuses on:
Since 2020, CARE International has been responding to COVID-19 in Kenya. Response efforts include supporting community preparedness and prevention.
Intense rainfall, fueled by the El Niño weather pattern, has led to extensive flooding throughout the Horn of Africa leading to death, destruction, and displacement across Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia.
As extreme effects of climate change exacerbate devastating crises in the Horn of Africa, CARE calls for the full funding of the region's Humanitarian Resource Plan to save lives.
While the ongoing drought in the Horn of Africa continues to worsen, an influx of refugees continue to arrive from Somalia to Kenya. Most of these are women and children who must seek refuge on the outskirts of Dadaab as resources are limited.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a sharp increase in gender-based violence (GBV) in many parts of the world. CARE is working with local women’s organisations in Kenya’s informal settlements to address GBV and protect survivors.
25 year old Muridi Zuberi is the first born of seven children, originally from Lower Juba, Somalia. He first arrived in Kenya in 2004 with his uncle. Muridi is married with a one and half month old baby.
The PROFIT Financial Graduation project ran from 2016-2019 with $1.8 million in funding from the government of Kenya. CARE reached more than 1,000 families in the Kitui district of Kenya.
With CARE’s fourth global Suffering In Silence report, we are starting to see a trend of certain countries annually remaining on the list of the most under-reported crises. While we expanded the analysis in 2019 by including Spanish and Arabic online media coverage (in addition to English, French and German), the results are surprisingly similar to previous years.
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.
