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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.
CARE Canada statement: Throne Speech
As COVID-19 pushes hunger, gender-based violence and economic exclusion to new highs in Canada and around the world, bold new measures are needed to tackle the systemic weaknesses the pandemic has exposed, and to prepare for future shocks – whether from health crises, economic decline or the climate crisis.
“I still have hope”: Overcoming unemployment during COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has eliminated 277 billion hours of paid work as of June 30, the equivalent of 400 million full-time jobs. Unlike previous economic crises, those job losses are hitting women the hardest.
Transforming COVID responses: Finding new ways to change the world
COVID-19 has forced us all to change in ways we never imagined. For CARE, it has transformed the way we work in every country and every project. Those changes can show us how to build a better world, and how to build a better CARE.
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.
Ipsos partners with CARE Canada to build classrooms in Zambia
The Ipsos Foundation-funded project will build three new classrooms in the new Mantapala primary school in Zambia.
Improving education in Yemen through community dialogue
The education sector in Yemen has been badly affected by teachers’ absences, and school hours were reduced even before COVID-19. CARE is supporting schools in Yemen with awareness-raising programs and facilitates community dialogue as a part of the response to improve the education system and to support students to return to school.
15 Minutes on Investing in Women
On this episode of 15 Minutes to Change the World, we speak with Beth Woroniuk – Policy Lead at Equality Fund. Beth highlights the long lasting impact that comes from investing in women and how COVID-19 threatens the progress that has been made towards equality around the world.