In Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, young adults are experiencing an HIV and AIDS epidemic that is placing their generation in even more danger after years of conflict.
Youth Empowerment
10/16/13
Rhoda Chaima's Three Years in Secondary School
“Please Henry don’t talk to me in vernacular, I don’t want to be punished once my colleagues and teachers hear me talking our vernacular while in the campus.”
Rhoda Chaima
10/16/13
Girl Power at Its Best
When I left for Lalwi village, in Bahraich, to meet the girls of Ekta adolescent group, little did I know that I was about to discover a gold mine of inspirational stories.
10/16/13
Change Begins at Home
Thanks to the Join My Village maternal health program in India, women like Seema are learning about prenatal care and safe births in their local villages.
10/16/13
Girl Most Likely To: Be a Force for Change
This ‘burden’ said no to child marriage, and demanded an education instead.
It was all arranged, even the dowry.
10/16/13
Girl Most Likely To: Be a Healthcare Role Model
Water is essential to life. And yet it could have kept Susan out of school for good.
10/15/13
ICRW – Shifting Young Men’s Attitudes About Gender in the Balkans
Experiencing, witnessing and perpetrating violence is an all too common reality for boys growing up in this post-conflict environment, which is still marred by the violent breakup of the former Yugoslavia in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
10/3/13
The Best CARE Story I’ve Found Is One No One Could Tell Me
I work for the Atlanta-headquartered humanitarian organization CARE. My job title is “Staff Writer” but, in reality, I’m as much of a finder as I am a writer.
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This technical brief highlights the ways in which adolescent and youth economic empowerment are integrated in CARE’s education...
Using project examples, this capacity statement highlights the approaches CARE uses in its work to empower adolescents.
This 32 page guidance document is a practical guide for thinking about GBV in non-GBV programs.
This project was designed to help lessen the impact of HIV/AIDS on orphans and vulnerable children throughout Zambia.
CARE is a signatory to Girl Declaration and helped with its development.
Making a Difference: Empowering Girls, Expanding Knowledge, Addressing Poverty
Education Findings from the Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative
Feb 2012 Girls Leadership Program Brief
HOGASA has contributed to significant decreases in maternal and infant death and improved management of healthcare resources in Honduras...
The Innovation through Sport project uses the "convening power of sports" to minimize the effects of poverty and social injustice on...
CARE Ecuador explored the impact of Neo Juventud, a development program tailored for young men and women in a rural area of Ecuador.
Whether it’s basketball or soccer, boxing or swimming, sport builds character and promotes teamwork.
As part of the LIFT-UP Initiative, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, CARE Ecuador conducted a study on Youth Space
We believe that the greatest obstacle to girls’ education is the low social status in which girls are held.
The right to education is fundamental to the attainment and exercise of all human rights.
The world’s future will be largely shaped by today’s girls and tomorrow’s women.
Three years after the worst earthquake in Haiti’s history, the massive task of recovery and reconstruction continues.