CARE fights global poverty with an emphasis on empowering women and girls with education, and maternal health and microfinance resources! http://care.org
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CARE Want to buy holiday gifts that also bring hope & opportunity to women around the world? As you get ready to shop this holiday weekend, come check out our eSHOP where we've got calendars, smart phone covers, t-shirts, DVDs and other cool items sure to delight. Did we mention it's for a great cause?
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Our mission to serve individuals and families in the poorest communities around the world includes the seven program areas listed below. Within each area, CARE manages projects to help families and communities create lasting solutions to poverty. ...
CARE It's official: Obama will go to #COP15. A big thank you to everyone who helped us push President Obama to attend the negotiations. (If you're not already part of the CARE Action Network, please join right now to stay up-to-date on this and other critical issues: http://bit.ly/joinCARE)
CARE CARE's President and CEO Dr. Helene Gayle reflects on Thanksgiving, the origins of CARE, and a few other thoughts. Read her blog post and leave comments with your own reflections.
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This Thursday, Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving, a celebration of harvest. Thanksgiving has come to be a wonderful time to gather with family and friends, and to reflect on the things for which we are most grateful. It also has an interesting history.
Carol
Dear CARE Fans,
I just finished a 10 day trip to visit CARE's work in Bangladesh. Please visit my photo album for an inside look at communities helped by CARE's programming to mitigate the effects of climate change, overcome food insecurity and improve the state of maternal health.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=39
CARE Tomorrow is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Make it a day of action: Please sign our petition to take a stand against the use of rape as a tactic of war. Each signature counts. Sign and tell your friends to do the same.
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The international community must take action to end the use of rape as an instrument of war. Sign the petition below to let the world know we must hold government forces and armed groups accountable for stopping repeated gender-based violence and assist survivors of rape and assault.
CARE Read the study: Education-related violence is an alarming trend in Afghanistan, with girls at particular risk of attacks aimed at keeping them out of school. In 2008 alone, 670 education-related attacks including murder and arson occurred, causing hundreds of schools to close and parents to keep their children home. H...owever, this study suggests steps to increase odds of success...
Report Finds Girls' Schools in Afghanistan Face Highest Risk of Violence; Suggests Steps for Prevent
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Today CARE, the World Bank and the Afghanistan government released ''Knowledge on Fire: Attacks on Education in Afghanistan,'' a groundbreaking study that suggests that a community-based approach to education ...
See MoreCARE Must-read article about school-targeted violence in Afghanistan and how to make sure education projects get community buy-in (thus reducing attacks).
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The importance of education, especially for girls, does not escape the Afghan people nor humanitarian agencies trying to improve their living conditions. That's why the World Bank partnered with CARE to investigate how education can succeed amid increasing violent attacks on Afghan schools.
CARE Seattle/Redmond friends - You are invited to join CARE for an evening with New York Times Columnist and Pulitzer Prize Winner Nicholas Kristof. See link below for details and a video interview of Kristof with Dr. Helene Gayle.
"Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide"
Location:The Overlake School Gymnasium
Time:6:30PM Monday, December 7th
Siamak Mirnezami in as much as this is a funding activity, there must be an equally fierce fight for equality at the ballot box, where there is one and UN where it can gain political momentum. This cause is multi faceted, including changing hearts and minds.
Siamak Mirnezami in as much as this is a funding activity, there must be an equally fierce fight for equality at the ballot box, where there is one and UN where it can gain political momentum. This cause is multi faceted, including changing hearts and minds.
Linda Roach This organization is what women and children need worldwide. We as a society do not value women as much as men and that needs to change and will with the suport of groups like this.
Kate Cote I am very motivated to get involved with CARE. My motivation is the lives of women and children here in the U.S. and around the world. -Kate
Elizabeth Rutten-Turner
i'm
an ESOL teacher to support middle school refugees, immigrants, and
asylees learn about american culture, including our language; while
supporting their culture and home language. i'm exhausted . . .
CARE Happy Universal Children's Day. What are you doing to make the world a better, safer place for kids?
