
The Horn of Africa Crisis: "The Challenge of a Generation"
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.
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.
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.
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
Our Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) are a proven way of supporting women to develop financial stability, increase resilience to shocks, and invest in income-generating activities. But at CARE, savings groups are about more than just money.
In the lead up to World Humanitarian Day on August 19th, we are shining light on the role of women in humanitarian crises around the globe.
In her work at the Women’s Association of Tigray (WAT), a CARE partner NGO, Abeba Hailesilassie helps to support Tigrayan survivors of GBV and promotes women’s leadership in decision-making.
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.