As the festive season approaches, many of us are looking forward to spending time with family and friends. Making memories, and spoiling those we love.
But right now, many families around the world are being torn apart by conflict and crisis. Mothers are putting their children to bed, anxious about how they’ll keep them warm through the night. Inside leaking tents and worn-out shelters, they are worrying where the next meal will come from. And the childhood memories being made are of suffering and fear.
But you can help change this. Your donation today could help send a Christmas CARE Package containing life-saving supplies like food, medicine and blankets to a woman and her family who need urgent support this winter.
Choose the CARE Package you want to help send
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Christmas CARE Package for a mum
£22 could help buy blankets, sleeping bags or a heater so a mother can protect herself and her family from the bitter cold this winter.
Send a CARE Package to a mum
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Christmas CARE Package for a child
£51 could help provide access to vital medication and supplies, to treat a child suffering from malnutrition.
Send a CARE Package to a child
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Christmas CARE Package for a family
£97 could help provide a woman with training and start-up grants to start her own business and lift herself and her family out of poverty.
Send a CARE Package to a family
Meet Ayanna
Ayanna* lives in Ethiopia with her husband and her two young children. The family used to make a living through farming, but drought has forced Ayanna’s husband to leave their village and find work in the city. The money he earns is nowhere near enough to feed the family.
This is the only food left in my house...
... she told us, holding a small bowl of porridge. “It has to be enough for me and my two children for the next 24 hours. I feed my children first, but I can still only give them a small handful.”
Ayanna’s children are malnourished, and when they do eat, the food contains little nutrition. When we met her, Ayanna hadn’t been able to produce breast milk for over a month as her body wasn’t getting the nutrients it needs to do so.
In Ethiopia alone, over 4 million pregnant or breastfeeding women are suffering from malnutrition. Worldwide, the number of people facing dangerous levels of hunger has doubled since 2020.
This is why we urgently need your help.
*Name changed to protect identity
How your donation will help
Your generous gift could be a lifeline for women like Ayanna, who are suffering the horrendous impacts of conflict and crisis. When emergencies strike, or crisis hits, you’re helping to provide life-saving support to those who need it most.
Your donation could help provide emergency food and malnutrition support, so that women like Ayanna and their children can survive the unimaginable impacts of conflict and crisis. Or for a family forced to flee their home and sleep in a tent, it could provide waterproof sheeting and heaters to help them stay warm and dry.
It could also help women in rural communities to generate sustainable income and lift themselves out of poverty for good. CARE supports women to pool their income and make loans to each other, to set up new businesses. And with the money they make, they can feed their children. Not every three days, but every day.
Please donate today and help families like Ayanna's make childhood memories worth remembering this Christmas.