We believe companies play an increasingly important role in helping people find their way out of poverty.
We work with companies to help them create more socially responsible practices, to engage their consumers and staff in development issues, to adopt new business models and to support innovative programmes of work around the world.
We work with the following companies in many different ways:
ABC Bank
The Arab Banking Corporation, has worked with CARE in the Middle East for five years, funding water project across Jordan, the West Bank and Egypt and women’s empowerment projects in Gaza.
Anglo American
Anglo American, one of the world’s largest mining companies, has provided funding for our economic and social inclusion project for young people in Brazil. In Zimbabwe, Anglo American has funded our market access, savings and loans, and relief work.
Ashursts
International law firm Ashurst has been a highly valued partner of CARE’s for more than ten years. As well as giving fee-free legal support, Ashurst also donates other professional and office services in support of CARE’s corporate functions.
Barclays
Barclays, CARE International and Plan have joined together in an initiative to improve the quality of life for poor people by extending and developing access to basic financial services. The initiative brings together the resources, skills and experience of each organization and aims to reach over 500,000 people across Africa, Asia and South America. Learn more.
Cadbury
CARE is a partner in the Cadbury Cocoa Partnership, a ground breaking initiative that aims to secure the economic, social and environmental future of a million cocoa farmers and their communities in Ghana, Indonesia and the Caribbean. Learn more.
Ecotricity
Ecotricity is one of the greenest energy suppliers around, investing more per customer in building new renewable energy than all the other suppliers put together. Ecotricity also gives a donation to CARE every time one of our supporters signs up.Switch to Ecotricity. Learn more.
Emirates
Emirates is the international airline of the United Arab Emirates, based in Dubai. Emirates has supported CARE International since 2004, donating Skywards miles for CARE staff to travel and work on our projects around the world.
Estée Lauder
Estée Lauder/DKNY is partnering with CARE to support a 15-month project that will reach vanilla farmers in rural communities who produce the signature ingredient for the new fragrance pureDKNY. The majority of vanilla farmers are women and this project will help women in these communities to establish their own Village Savings and Loans groups. Learn more.
Ethical Tea Partnership
The Ethical Tea Partnership is a membership organisation of tea companies, and is working with CARE in a number of different tea estates in Sri Lanka by supporting the implementation of community development forums designed to improve labour standards for workers whilst increasing profitability of the estates themselves.
GlaxoSmithKline
CARE is one of three partners in GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) new corporate community investment initiative. The initiative aims to improve the health of people living in the world’s poorest countries by reinvesting 20 per cent of the profits it makes in those Least Developed Countries (LDCs) back into strengthening those countries’ healthcare systems by supporting frontline health workers who work in these countries. Learn more.
The Phone Co-op
The Phone Co-op provides great value home phone and broadband whilst maintaining a commitment to always acting ethically and with a sense of social and environmental responsibility. Since 2003 The Phone Co-op has partnered with CARE to generously donate funds every time a CARE supporter signs up online for Phone Co-op services and 6% of your bill each month will go to CARE. Learn more.
Société Générale
The Société Générale Charitable Foundation is working with CARE to support four educational projects in Peru, Mali, Morocco and Bangladesh. Société Générale staff selected CARE to be their global partner in 2008 under which Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking will grant CARE EUR 1m over a three-year period.
UBM
United Business Media are a long standing supporter of CARE and have funded several of our humanitarian relief projects in countries such as Bangladesh and Vietnam, as well as being a funding partner for CARE’s flagship Girls’ Education Project in India.
ZoCa
ZOCA designs active wear clothing, and donates 1% of all sales to CARE International. Ethical and environmentally sensitive, ZOCA strives to adopt best possible practice in all aspects of its brand and business.
