CARE works in some of Niger’s poorest communities to help prevent famine.
Food distribution in North Kivu
Stories from the province of North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where more than 330,000 people have fled their homes due to violence and conflict. “We heard shooting and when we realized it was coming closer we took our baby and ran.” Twenty-year-old Jean and his wife had no time to take […]
Ghana is cocoa, and cocoa is Ghana
By Louise Atkins, an Australian Youth Ambassador for Development (AYAD) who has recently returned to Australia from a seven-month assignment working in the CARE Ghana office. ‘Ghana is cocoa, and cocoa is Ghana’… This is a statement I frequently heard during my seven-month AYAD assignment in Ghana. Although cocoa production is described as the backbone […]
Chad: Facing a food crisis
Julia Newton-Howes, CARE Australia CEO, recently visited Chad to see part of CARE’s response to the food crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa. Please donate to CARE’s Global Emergency Fund. Chad has a population of about 10 million people, living in a country a little smaller than the Northern Territory, a lot of […]