What your support could help us achieve

The Human Relief Foundation and the UK-Islamic Relief have generously supported CARE International’s EMPOWERS project in the West Bank and Gaza, where vulnerable communities often have no way of getting water from traditional water sources, such as wells. Since 2003, The Human Relief Foundation has donated more than £23,000.

With your help, we can do even more:

£5,000 will help to ensure that CARE is on the ground ready to act when emergencies hit.

CARE's ability to respond rapidly to disasters is made possible by the fact that we already work in more than 70 countries around the world – and are ready to mobilise and coordinate people to help quickly. CARE operates a Revolving Fund to allow our staff to respond immediately to an emergency by providing food, water, shelter and basic health care. Once immediate needs are covered, CARE continues to work with communities to rebuild people’s lives and reduce vulnerability to future disasters. We always need donations for our Revolving Fund to ensure we are ready to help those facing adversity.

£10,000 will set up an Innovation Fund for Education in Ghana

The Innovation Fund is part of the Basic Education and Civil Society (BECS) project and runs in 70 communities in Wassa West District, Ghana. Parent Teacher Associations or other community groups design and manage the projects with about £400 per project from the Innovation Fund. Examples of these projects include:

• Distribution of books and other educational materials to reduce the costs of keeping children in school
• Developing money-making activities for schools to decrease direct costs of education
• Funding youth clubs for outreach activities related to child labour.

£20,000 funds an HIV and AIDS voluntary counselling and testing programme in Ethiopia

Voluntary counselling and testing allow people to make informed decisions about their health. Through locally supported and managed organisations, this programme improves support and care for HIV-infected individuals and their families as well as enabling those who are HIV negative to maintain or adopt a lifestyle which reduces the risks of them contracting it. This programme will benefit approximately 25,000 women and their families by increasing their knowledge about HIV and AIDS.

£200,000 will start a national reconciliation project by local organisations in Uganda aimed at addressing poverty through social justice.

CARE aims to support the work of Ugandan civil society organisations addressing the impact of conflict on different communities in Uganda. The project is focused on helping build a viable Ugandan nation state, and reducing the marginalisation of particular ethnic or religious groups, or regions of the country. The project involves a coalition of organisations working together to promote formal and informal national reconciliation and justice processes, through research and advocacy, targeting both citizens and opinion leaders.