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Help women affected by sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, it is estimated that an average of 40 women are raped every day. Please help survivors of sexual violence.

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West Africa crisis - Act now to prevent starvation

West Africa crisis - Act now to prevent starvation

Please don't wait, give now.

Appeal: A food crisis is building in west Africa. 3 million children are at risk of acute malnutrition. You can help. Please don't wait, give now.

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Learn more about the West Africa food crisis

Learn more about the West Africa food crisis

What we do >> Current emergencies

Acute malnutrition is threatening 3 million children under five in Niger, Mali, Chad and across West Africa.

Acute malnutrition is threatening 3 million children under five in Niger, Mali, Chad and across West Africa. Learn more about the situation on our summary page.

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Take the CARE Gold Bike Challenge

Take the CARE Gold Bike Challenge

Get fit and embrace the Olympics

Join us to cycle a London and Surrey loop based on the Olympic Road Race. Find out more.

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Innovative partnership wins ThirdSector Business Charity Award

For Benta taking part in a Savings and Loans group supported by Banking on Change has given her financial assistance when she has most needed it, as well as allowing her to establish a new business. © Kathryn Richards / CAREWe are thrilled that Banking on Change, a project CARE International UK works on in partnership with Barclays and Plan UK, has won the ThirdSector Business Charity Award for Overseas Project. 54 year old mother, Benta, from Kenya's story shows the incredible life changing effect the projects this partnerhip supports can have.

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Welcoming newcomers in DRC: a testament to human kindness

Rachele with some of her 11 children, five of whom she adopted when her sister died. She lives in a host community in DRC.

Welcoming groups of people into your community isn’t always easy – they need to find a place to live and food to eat, a pressure on people already struggling. Despite these obvious difficulties, communities all over the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) welcome displaced people and offer them support.

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Everybody depends on the earth to survive

Dan Bouga

The farmers of Dan Maza Idi village in Niger have a saying. "Everybody depends on the Earth to survive." Unfortunately, climate change is making survival more difficult in Dan Maza Idi and villages like it across Niger.

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Humanitarian need growing in South Sudan

Family from South Sudan

A severe food crisis is growing in South Sudan and as the rainy season approaches the situation has the potential to deteriorate further.

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Staff blog: Local to global advocacy at CARE

A woman selling products as part of JITA. © Kathryn Richards / CARE

Alice Hutchinson, CARE International UK's Head of Advocacy, writes about CARE's approach to advocacy worldwide and how it fits into the wider picture. How to make sure local efforts really change things in people's lives and influence structures on a national and global level.

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Guest blog: ITN's Alastair Stewart - drought in Niger and the UK

ITN's Alastair Stewart sits with children when he visited Niger with CARE International UK in 2010. © CARE / Kathryn Richards

In 2010 Alastair Stewart visited Niger with CARE International. Now, aware that the country is entering the throws of another crisis, he compares his own situation and that of his children with those in Niger, and asks you to help.

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Niger: "food is the most basic need"

With CARE's help Tachima has been able to pay off her debts and feed her children. © CARE

In Niger even better off homes are struggling to cope with a twenty percent increase in the price of sorghum, Niger’s staple food. For Tchima, a widow and mother of six with no assets of her own, it means life at the edge of survival.

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CARE International is one of the world’s leading aid agencies - we fight poverty and injustice. In the last year, we worked in 84 countries, supporting 1015 poverty-fighting projects that reached more than 122 million people. CARE International is non-religious and non-political, allowing us to assist anyone in need regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, age, religion, political view or sexual orientation.

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