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Safe from the Start Introduced in House

CARE Action applauds the House of Representatives for introducing the bipartisan Safe from the Start Act, which will prioritize the needs of women and girls in responding to humanitarian emergencies. We need everyone's voices to see this legislation through.

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Advocacy Resources: Safe From the Start Act

Learn more about this critical piece of legislation currently in the House of Representatives
and how it will make humanitarian assistance more efficient and effective at addressing the needs of women and girls.

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Our Issues

Gender and Empowerment

Math teacher Seema Singh (center) works with Shalindri, 13, and Nisha, 14, during class at the UDAAN Accelerated Learning Camp for girls near Hardoi, India.

Gender-based violence has reached epidemic proportions in countries around the world.

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Foreign Assistance Budget

Women receive seeds at CARE's seed distribution in South Sudan. CARE distributed seeds for cowpeas, tomato, eggplant, sesame, sorghum, watermelon and more to 21,000 households in Jonglei, one of the areas most affected by the conflict.

Foreign aid represents one penny on the U.S. dollar, but saves millions of lives each year.

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Emergencies

Refugees from Myanmar arrive in Bangladesh.

In humanitarian crises, women and children are often affected the most.

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Food and Nutrition

Kien Quang Thi is a human weather app - not only does she forecast the weather, but she also provides advice for farmers on on what, when, and how to plant. Her objective is to better prepare her community for extreme weather phenomena.

We aim to feed people in a more sustainable, equitable, and flexible way.

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Health

Access to reproductive health services is key to preventing maternal and child mortality.

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From the Blog

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Resources: UNFPA

Posted 10/29/19

Download the template to write your letter to...

Q&A with Rose Tchwenko, Country Director of CARE Ghana

Posted 10/2/19

This September, CARE Action caught up with Rose Tchwenko , the former Country Director of CARE Malawi, for the...

Sidra, 13, whose family fled Syria to Jordan four years ago, participates in a peer to peer support group at a CARE community centre in Irbid, Jordan.

A Mother's Love Is Stronger Than All Traditions

Posted 4/29/19

Of the estimated 125 million 10-year-olds alive around the globe today, just over 60 million are girls. They are the world's future leaders...

Fidella Nzeyimana, 24, is one of thousands of success stories of women's economic empowerment.

5 Minutes of Inspiration: How Savings Help Girls Stand Up for Themselves

Posted 4/23/19

By Emily Janoch

Here’s a link I never thought about: Savings make it easier for teenage girls to refuse sex with boys if they don’t want it....

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