Africa - Southern
Zambia ranks 146 out of 189 on the Human Development Index (HDI). CARE International’s work in Zambia focuses on long-term community development programs in rural and urban areas.
CARE International began working in Zambia in 1992, initially focusing on emergency relief in response to the severe drought of the early 1990s and on interventions to mitigate the effects of escalating inflation and extreme poverty in urban areas.
CARE Zambia’s current program portfolio focuses primarily on long-term development programs in rural and marginal peri-urban communities. We also respond to emergencies when the need arises.
CARE Zambia aims to work with women and girls vulnerable to poverty and addresses this with niche programs dedicated to improving maternal and child nutrition and social protection.
22 districts across Zambia are underwater due to climate change-induced flooding. Impacts of the heavy rainfall combined with rising cases of cholera and COVID-19 has created a triple threat to already vulnerable communities.
Most Vulnerable Are Paying The Price For Climate Crisis After Flooding and Tropical Storms Ravage Zambia
Over the past few days, tropical storm Ana has affected hundreds of thousands of people across Southern Africa. The storm caused heavy rains and flooding in Madagascar and Mozambique and left most of Zimbabwe without power over the recent days.
First developed in 1999, the Strengthening Opportunities for Adolescent Resilience (SOAR) is a multi-country initiative working with Ministries of Education to provide accelerated education for out-of-school adolescents, particularly girls, enabling them to acquire key academic and life skills.
You know what inspires me most about CARE’s COVID-19 vaccine work? The number of times I’ve heard someone say that one of the key ways to convince people to get COVID-19 vaccines is to have CARE staff share the message.
“These days things have changed. My husband supports me and in taking the child to under 5 appointments. [Husband] cooks and prepares the food for all to eat and we even laugh together now.”
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.
English: Drawing from 13 studies – three of them conducted by CARE International – this report presents the economic costs of violence against women in relation to its impact on national economies and the rates of violence against women in these coun
In FY2022, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, defeating poverty, and achieving social justice.
