COVID-19: PNG, Timor Leste four times more at risk than Aust

New analysis by the aid agency CARE Australia suggests most countries in our region, such as Papua New Guinea and Timor Leste, are up to four times more at risk from COVID-19 than Australia. CARE Australia CEO Peter Walton said health services were incredibly stretched in most Pacific Island and many Southeast Asian countries even […]

CARE begins emergency response in earthquake-ravaged PNG

CARE emergency teams in Papua New Guinea are today assessing the damage caused by last week’s powerful magnitude-7.5 earthquake, and have begun distributing relief supplies. Australian aid worker Anna Bryan, CARE’s Program Director in PNG, said access to affected areas remained a huge challenge. “Many of the places hardest hit are still only accessible by […]

CARE Australia and Virgin Australia partner to support development across Asia-Pacific

CARE Australia and Virgin Australia today announced a partnership to support CARE’s work with thousands of poor communities in the Asia-Pacific region. The partnership begins with Virgin Australia’s major sponsorship of the Walk In Her Shoes Challenge, which sees thousands of Australians walking 25, 50 or 100 kilometres over one week, replicating the distances that […]

Help a pregnant mum in Papua New Guinea this Sunday

As families across Australia prepare to celebrate Mother’s Day this weekend, CARE Australia is calling on sons and daughters across the country to give their mums a CAREgift (www.caregifts.org.au) that will help save the lives of expectant mums in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Every day in PNG an estimated five women die in childbirth and […]

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