Support the largest global response in CARE’s history.
Over the past year and a half, your support has made the largest emergency response effort in CARE’s history possible, helping us to reach more than 47.5 million individuals across 69 countries to save and protect lives, build resilient communities, and innovate for the future.
CARE is working closely with state governments to mobilize mega-vaccination campaigns, particularly in areas with marginalized tribal and scheduled caste populations. By August 2021, CARE has directly facilitated 1.2 million doses and supported another 10 million doses through our health partners; our target is to support 64 million doses by December 2021. We already have deployed more than 1,000 volunteers to support government vaccinators in the field. We are also leveraging social media, doctors, and community influencers to address vaccine hesitancy and challenge common myths.
In this moment of unparalleled need, CARE once again is tapping into the spirit of innovation that helped create the original CARE Package® 75 years ago. We have launched a new CARE Package to address urgent needs at home, marking our first foray into U.S. programming.
Across five cities, we have delivered more than 8 million meals to at-risk people in food-insecure areas and put more than $1.4 million directly in the pockets of low-income workers.
With a global hunger crisis looming, CARE accelerated efforts to scale up programs that have the potential to end hunger—like She Feeds the World, which gives women farmers access to the resources, skills, and confidence they need to increase production of nutritious food to sell or to feed their children.
In Mozambique, this work resulted in families being able to grow more food, respond better to crises, and save more money. Families increased the diversity of their diets and were 60% more likely to have adequate diets.
With 10 million members globally, we’re seeing CARE-sponsored Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) continuing to serve their primary purpose of providing unbanked women with savings and loans—and also leading their broader communities in fighting COVID-19.
In Niger and other countries across Africa, we fast-tracked a process to enable VSLA members to meet remotely via WhatsApp and SMS to ensure continued access to financial services and support. Savings groups hosted COVID-19 prevention sessions for their communities, and pooled their social funds to purchase food and hygiene supplies.
In two rural districts in Bangladesh, where families have little access to quality health care services, CARE developed a public-private partnership to identify, train, and support a network of 410 skilled health entrepreneurs (SHEs). SHEs fill a critical need by providing frontline maternal, newborn, and child health services; family planning options; and essential health goods in remote communities.
At the outset of COVID-19, most government-provided services around maternal and child health stopped due to lockdown restrictions.
UNICEF warns that 24 million children are projected to drop out of school permanently due to COVID-19. To help those who drop out transition back into formal education more quickly, CARE is expanding our innovative Strengthening Opportunities for Adolescent Resilience (SOAR) accelerated learning program for out-of-school adolescents to gain relevant skills. SOAR provides the opportunity for never-enrolled or school dropouts (girls ages 11-14) to complete a fifth-grade education in just 11 months.
In India, SOAR has been approved by the government as a national model, with 95% of SOAR graduates approved to attend formal school.
CARE is working closely with state governments to mobilize mega-vaccination campaigns, particularly in areas with marginalized tribal and scheduled caste populations. By August 2021, CARE has directly facilitated 1.2 million doses and supported another 10 million doses through our health partners; our target is to support 64 million doses by December 2021. We already have deployed more than 1,000 volunteers to support government vaccinators in the field. We are also leveraging social media, doctors, and community influencers to address vaccine hesitancy and challenge common myths.
In this moment of unparalleled need, CARE once again is tapping into the spirit of innovation that helped create the original CARE Package® 75 years ago. We have launched a new CARE Package to address urgent needs at home, marking our first foray into U.S. programming.
Across five cities, we have delivered more than 8 million meals to at-risk people in food-insecure areas and put more than $1.4 million directly in the pockets of low-income workers.
With a global hunger crisis looming, CARE accelerated efforts to scale up programs that have the potential to end hunger—like She Feeds the World, which gives women farmers access to the resources, skills, and confidence they need to increase production of nutritious food to sell or to feed their children.
In Mozambique, this work resulted in families being able to grow more food, respond better to crises, and save more money. Families increased the diversity of their diets and were 60% more likely to have adequate diets.
With 10 million members globally, we’re seeing CARE-sponsored Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) continuing to serve their primary purpose of providing unbanked women with savings and loans—and also leading their broader communities in fighting COVID-19.
In Niger and other countries across Africa, we fast-tracked a process to enable VSLA members to meet remotely via WhatsApp and SMS to ensure continued access to financial services and support. Savings groups hosted COVID-19 prevention sessions for their communities, and pooled their social funds to purchase food and hygiene supplies.
In two rural districts in Bangladesh, where families have little access to quality health care services, CARE developed a public-private partnership to identify, train, and support a network of 410 skilled health entrepreneurs (SHEs). SHEs fill a critical need by providing frontline maternal, newborn, and child health services; family planning options; and essential health goods in remote communities.
At the outset of COVID-19, most government-provided services around maternal and child health stopped due to lockdown restrictions.
UNICEF warns that 24 million children are projected to drop out of school permanently due to COVID-19. To help those who drop out transition back into formal education more quickly, CARE is expanding our innovative Strengthening Opportunities for Adolescent Resilience (SOAR) accelerated learning program for out-of-school adolescents to gain relevant skills. SOAR provides the opportunity for never-enrolled or school dropouts (girls ages 11-14) to complete a fifth-grade education in just 11 months.
In India, SOAR has been approved by the government as a national model, with 95% of SOAR graduates approved to attend formal school.
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Learn more about Planned GivingWhile COVID-19 vaccines bring new hope, the danger is far from over. COVID-19 has triggered crises on multiple fronts that could take decades to reverse. Continued outbreaks, loss of income and education, and deepening hunger crises will further exacerbate the situation.
CARE and our partners are on the front lines of the COVID-19 response, and we’re not slowing down. As urgent needs emerge around the world, CARE is committed to reaching the most vulnerable, ramping up our efforts in pandemic hotspots and providing a holistic response – centered on women and girls – to help people access vaccines, food, education, and livelihoods. Over the next six months, CARE is redoubling our efforts as we commit to raising an additional $50 million for three interconnected priorities:
In the face of growing poverty and inequality in the U.S., CARE will continue to expand our work, bringing the best of what we’ve learned around the world to fight poverty and injustice at home. Over the next three years, our goal is to sustainably reduce poverty with proven programming—starting with CARE Package Relief and Community Savings & Loan Associations, which we will expand to key cities to foster more savings and reduce dependence on harmful payday loans. Our vision is to create a U.S.-based micro-savings model that can be scaled and replicated by other organizations in any targeted community where the need is great. As in all of CARE’s work, we will apply a strong social justice lens and focus on historically marginalized groups with an emphasis on Black, indigenous, and other women of color who are one financial shock away from slipping into deep poverty.
The global COVID-19 pandemic represents an all-hands-on-deck moment for humanity. CARE is determined to ensure that the world’s most vulnerable people are not forgotten in prevention, vaccination, and economic recovery efforts. We cannot do this without you—please join CARE now in fighting alongside women and girls to build back a stronger, more equitable future for all.
