See how two incredible women in Côte d’ Ivoire helped other women become their own bankers.
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Staying in school and becoming a teacher: Maram’s story
Ten-year-old Maram, who lives with her grandparents in northwest Syria, shares her personal story and her dream of becoming a teacher.
How a women’s savings group in Niger came together to supply +10,000 masks
After their jobs disappeared due to coronavirus, savings group president Aïchatou Cheitou helped focus the group on mask and soap production and started a mutual aid program to ensure families in her community had enough to eat.
Learning from local women humanitarians responding to gender-based violence
CARE’s Zainab Moallin spoke with the Arab Women Organization of Jordan (AWO Jordan), a women-led organization that partners with CARE, to understand what we can learn from women-led organizations as they navigate the impacts of the coronavirus in their humanitarian contexts and take steps to support vulnerable women and girls at risk of gender-based violence (GBV).
Meet Rehema: A Congolese refugee, survivor, and women’s advocate
Rehema lives in Uganda and draws on her personal experiences to support refugee survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.
Stories of shock and survival: Three months after the Beirut explosion
Three months after the explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, CARE Canada’s Ramzi Saliba reflects on his deployment there: how it personally affected him being from Lebanon, the complexities of compounding emergencies happening all together, CARE’s response, and the incomprehensible impact on the people.
Five minute inspiration: CARE savings groups in the post COVID world
Movement restrictions, economic crisis, plummeting incomes, the inability to get together in groups. These are all challenges that could make a savings group fail post-COVID-19. They could make it impossible to move forward. That’s not what’s happening.
We are having a global food crisis and women are feeling its impacts the most
From increased unpaid labor to gender-based lockdown restrictions, women and girls are disproportionately impacted during the ongoing global food crisis.
Cultivating hope: Palestinian Women Coping with COVID-19
See how Bayan Farraj, a married mother of three children from Ramallah in the West Bank, was able to fulfil her passion to run her own business, with support from CARE’s OBADER project.