Impact stories

A CARE project in Ethiopian communities establishes community-led Social Analysis and Action groups which reflect on traditions and social norms and challenges them.

Ethiopia is facing the worst drought in the last 40 years. As a result, girls are dropping out of school because they have to walk the whole day to fetch water for their families.

While working in the response to the devastating floods in Pakistan, CARE's Maryam Imtiaz witnessed countless stories of loss, resilience and solidarity. She shared what she has seen and heard and urged for action to stop climate change and its…

Women and men in Ethiopia are setting up self-managed savings groups to open new economic opportunities and ensure lasting financial stability.

In parts of Ethiopia communities are making collective efforts at changing their attitutes about early child marriage and female genital mutilation.

By September of 2022, the global food crisis had gotten so extreme that 205.1 million people urgently needed humanitarian food assistance just to survive. Tragically, if we do nothing to invest in long-term food systems, the crisis could worsen fourfold…

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…

Persistent absence from school is the major cause of lower achievement and poor progress in secondary education for most girls in Buhera District, Zimbabwe. Statistics show that boys have a higher full-attendance rate than girls. Some girls in Buhera…

What happens when you build gender equality into a sustainable market solution? That solution lasts and grows for years after CARE projects end. For Taslima in Bangladesh, the result means “I can save time, spending more time with my family… SDCV’s…