Africa - East and Central
Ethiopia ranks 173 out of 189 on the Human Development Index (HDI). CARE International works to provide emergency food relief, as well as addressing the root cause of poverty through long-term development work.
CARE International started working in Ethiopia in 1984, initially responding to severe drought and famine that killed nearly one million people. While we still provide emergency food relief, our work has expanded to address the root causes of poverty and vulnerability through longer-term development work.
More recently, millions of Ethiopians have been forced to flee their homes to escape violence. This conflict, centered in the northern part of Ethiopia, has worsened food insecurity, malnutrition, and disease outbreaks.
As part of CARE Ethiopia's focused and long-term program approach to poverty eradication, we prioritize working with women and girls in rural and urban areas.
Our longer-term programs focus on:
Since 2020, CARE has responded to COVID-19 in Ethiopia. Response efforts include supporting people through health programming, hygiene kits, and access to food and clean water.
The resurgence of cholera in some of the world’s hunger hotspots, including Haiti, Syria, Pakistan, South Sudan and Afghanistan, is threatening the lives of millions of already vulnerable people.
At least 36.1 million people across are going hungry as Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia experience the worst drought in 40 years
As donors convene in Geneva, over 50 NGOs and NGO networks call for an urgent and substantial step-up in funding and leadership to respond to the humanitarian catastrophe facing millions in the Horn of Africa due to the severe drought, warning that further delays will cost lives.
The Berchi project, also called 'Be Strong – Claiming Rights and Promoting Gender Equality' ran from 2013-2015 in Ethiopia ultimately reaching 11,000 households.
CARE is committed to gender-transformative work. To that end, we partner with communities to challenge and transform norms that restrict women’s and girls’ ability to achieve their best possible health and lives.
Every second girl in Ethiopia is being cut. In the 1970s, every nine in ten girls had gone through this process.
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.
Disasters have strongly increased in both frequency and impact, with climate change as one of the main contributors to more extreme, frequent, and unpredictable weather.
This is the third consecutive year that CARE publishes its report “Suffering In Silence”. It serves as a call for the global community to speak up for people in crises who are otherwise forgotten and to help them overcome hardship.
In FY2022, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, defeating poverty, and achieving social justice.
