Executive summary of the Ensuring Sustainability Report
Kenya
The World’s Largest Refugee Camp
CARE is working in Dadaab to provide a safe haven for those fleeing violence and food insecurity in the Horn of Africa.
CRISIS IN THE HORN OF AFRICA
In 2011, a catastrophic drought struck the Horn of Africa, affecting Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya.
Motherhood in Dadaab
Countless families are being broken up as mothers and children leave Somalia in search of relief while their husbands stay behind to care for relatives who are too old, too sick, or too weak from hunger to flee. These heroic women and their families are survivors of the century's biggest humanitarian emergency.
Dadaab Refugee Camp: Through the Lens
The Dadaab refugee camps were originally built to hold only 90,000 people, but a recent food crisis and famine have caused it to grow to nearly five times the intended size.
Helping to Educate Children in Dadaab
Liz McLaughlin, Executive Director of CARE's Foundation Unit, traveled to the Dadaab camp in Northern Kenya where CARE is helping to educate refugee children. She captured her journey on camera.
From Dadaab to Jordan With Love
Refugee children in Dadaab, Kenya send messages of hope and solidarity to Syrian refugee children in Jordan.
Country Info
CARE commenced its humanitarian program in Kenya in 1968. Since then we have built a substantial development and humanitarian program, targeting around one million people in Kenya per year.
We currently carry out major programs in refugee assistance, health, water and sanitation, financial inclusion, adaptation to climate change, disaster risk reduction, agricultural value chains and humanitarian and emergency response. CARE is a lead partner of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and World Food Programme (WFP), for water and hygiene, food distribution and formal education in the Dadaab refugee camps, near the Kenya-Somalia border. As of December 31, 2013, the refugee population in Dadaab was 408,283 refugees. CARE is also lead partner of the Global Fund in Kenya and partners with CDC for a major health program.
Our main office is in Nairobi, and our main focus areas are western Kenya, Nairobi informal settlements and northern Kenya arid and semi arid lands. We also have projects in central and rift valley counties around financial inclusion and agricultural value chains. We currently work in 17 counties directly, and in 23 counties indirectly through Global Fund partners.
CARE has been operationg in Kenya since 1968, and today we're most active in Nyanza Province (with a sub-office in Kisumu), Kibera in Nairobi and North Eastern Province (with sub-offices in Garissa, Dadaab, Elwak and Marsabit).
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Crisis in the Horn of Africa
In 2011, a catastrophic drought struck the Horn of Africa, affecting Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya. CARE continues its work there, helping communities become increasingly resilient for the future.
Dadaab Refugee Camp
The Dadaab refugee camps were originally built to hold only 90,000 people, but a recent food crisis and famine have caused it to grow to nearly five times the intended size.
The work we do in Kenya
Sustainable Economies
We’ve worked with governments and communities to ensure sustainable food security for the world’s...
Child Poverty
Half of all children live in poverty, spending their formative years struggling to survive.
Market Access
More inclusive markets and access can help poor people improve their lives.
Microfinance
There’s a “savings revolution” taking place in many developing countries.
Youth Empowerment
Addressing the needs of the 1.8 billion young people in the world is critical to ending poverty.
Girls' Education
The majority of the 57 million children out of school are girls — their future is at risk.
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Family planning is a proven strategy in reducing maternal mortality.
HIV & AIDS
Poverty is both a cause and consequence of HIV and AIDS.
Child Survival
This year, more than 7 million children will die before their 5th birthday.
Poverty & Social Justice
Everyone in the world has the right to a life free from poverty, violence and discrimination.
Maternal Health
Hundreds of thousands of women die in pregnancy and childbirth, mostly from preventable causes.
Agriculture
By failing to close the gender gap in agriculture, the world is paying dearly.
Climate Change
Climate change threatens the very survival of people living in poverty all over the world.
Nutrition
Malnutrition affects 200 million children and the consequences can last a lifetime.
Child Marriage
Child marriage is a gross human rights violation that puts young girls at great risk.
Gender-Based Violence
Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive and yet least-recognized human rights abuses.
Why Women & Girls?
Why does CARE fight global poverty by focusing on women and girls? Because we have to.
Resources from Kenya
This 24 page report highlights the results of CARE's projects using Food For Peace's Sustainability Framework. It draws from 193...
Want to get to empower women?
This 356 page sourcebook is a starting point for thinking and inspiring efforts.
Empowering the Next Generation of Women and Girls
Combining world-class documentary films and local engagement campaigns, Women and Girls Lead Global (WGLG) advances gender equality and...
WASHplus is USAID’s flagship global Environmental Health project.
Stategies, Results and Impacts of Evaluations 2011 - 2013
CARE commenced its humanitarian program in Kenya in 1968. Since then we have built a substantial development and humanitarian program,...
Women are engaged to be sellers and distributors of clean cook stoves and solar lanterns/lamps in an project called “wPOWER.”
CARE currently works in 11 countries in East and Central Africa (ECA), implementing long-term programs to fight poverty, respond to...
Education Findings from the Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative
Feb 2012 Girls Leadership Program Brief
CARE Enterprises bridges the supply/demand gap that exists between formal markets and many of the world's poorest communities.
CARE has responded to drought and food insecurity in the Horn of Africa with aid to approximately 2.8 million people.
Addressing the Social Factors that Influence Health: CARE’s Family Planning Results Initiative
Proven approaches for empowering women smallholders and achieving food security
Community Based Adaptation - Experiences from Africa
The economic case for community based adaptation in North-East Kenya
September 2012 Issue of CARE's Poverty Environment & Climate Change Network Newsletter
The ALP is supporting communities and local governments to use seasonal climate forecasts and information on climatic uncertainty for...
Mapping Emerging Trends and Risk Hotspots
CARE launched the Adaptation Learning Programme (ALP) for Africa in 2010.
We believe that the greatest obstacle to girls’ education is the low social status in which girls are held.
Elizabeth Akinyi moved to Rusinga Island on Kenya’s corner of Lake Victoria as a newly married young woman in the 1980s.
In 2008, CARE launched an ambitious Market Engagement Strategy that aims to empower 10 million women and girls to transition from...
“Bringing Financial Services to Africa’s Poor” focuses on microfinance, a tool that’s been proven effective against poverty in the...
The importance of expanding access to financial services for the world’s poorest people is increasingly recognized.
Currently, CARE is implementing over 74 economic development programs in 66 countries.
CARE’s programs in Economic Development work to improve the economic security and income opportunities of the poor.
Improved access to water can transform the life of a woman.
The XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City sheds a global spotlight on the progress in combating HIV and AIDS.
Lack of nutritious food is a barrier to health and wellbeing for the most vulnerable, poor and marginalized people in the world.
In the year since the United Nations declared a famine in parts of Somalia, much has been accomplished.
Empowering women to ensure family planning coverage, quality and equity
CARE's 2013 HIV and AIDS Capacity Statement
CARE’s Approach to Sexual, Reproductive, and Maternal Health
Is CARE creating the right type of changes through our work in water, sanitation and hygiene and water resources management (known as...