Gender
Women are the poorest people in the world. More than 70 per cent of the 1.3 billion people who struggle to survive on less than 60p a day are female.
Afghanistan is one of the most dangerous places to be female. In some areas girls are used to pay opium debts, many endure death threats because they work, and only two per cent of rural women can read and write. To help, CARE is providing education to thousands of women and girls. © CARE 2003
Millions of girls around the world are still unable to go to school and few women are able to determine their futures, which means they are kept trapped in poverty.
CARE helps the world’s poorest women by giving them access to basic financial services, like insurance, loans and interest-earning savings. We also help provide them with good health care, quality education and a voice through community organisations.
We put human rights at the centre of all our work, helping to give marginalised people dignity and the ability to change their lives themselves.
In Niger, CARE is helping women through our savings and loans groups. By saving a pot of money together, they can buy food and household goods, as well as take out loans to start small business, such as chicken farming, which can earn them more money. ©CARE 2006/Evelyn Hockstein
Help us make a difference in the lives of vulnerable women in poor communities.
Just £20 gives a girl in Afganistan the chance to go to school.
CARE is a member of the Gender And Development Network (GADN), which is made up of more than 180 leading practitioners, academics and consultants working on gender and development issues.
What we do
