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CARE

CARE. Defending Dignity Fighting Poverty. Focus. CARE’s main focus is women living in poverty. Women can strengthen entire communities and escape poverty when provided with proper resources. To serve those in the poorest communities.

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CARE

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  1. CARE Defending Dignity Fighting Poverty

  2. Focus CARE’s main focus is women living in poverty. Women can strengthen entire communities and escape poverty when provided with proper resources

  3. To serve those in the poorest communities. • Growing strength from global diversity, resources and experiences • promoting innovative solutions. Mission

  4. Facilitating LASTING change by: • Strengthening the capacity for self help • Providing economic opportunity • Delivering relief • Influencing policy decisions • Addressing discrimination Mission

  5. Where in the world? CARE works in several world regions: Africa Asia Latin America South America Middle East

  6. 5 sectors of CARE’s work • Agriculture and Natural Resources • Education • Economic devolvement • Emergency Relief • Health What do they do?

  7. 75% of the poor live in rural areas. • Improving agriculture in these countries would have a dramatic impact. Agriculture and Natural Resources

  8. Agricultural projects focus on: • Increasing cash crops • Planting winter crops • Building irrigation systems, small dams, and water tanks • Conservation of Natural resources Agriculture and Natural Resources

  9. Education 774 million adults can not read or write - 64% are women.  Work with governments to make education readily available to everyone. Focus on vulnerable groups: Refugee children Women and children People with HIV/AIDS

  10. Economic Developement Provide financial services to the poor. Initiates community savings-and-loan programs. Provides technical training.

  11. Emergency and Humanitarian Assistance Unit (EHAU) • Helps create plans for emergencies • Ensure they receive supplies when they need them most. Emergency Relief

  12. Increase awareness of HIV/AIDS • Reduce the spread of the disease. • provide health care to vulnerable groups. • Women • Children Health

  13. World Hunger Campaign • Provides feeding programs, education, microcredit loans, sustainable agriculture and other projects to help families lift themselves out of poverty.

  14. World Hunger Campaign • Launched on October 16,2006 • Melbourne Australia • Go ONE week without something • “Going without and doing a world of good”

  15. CARE Overview

  16. www.care.org • www.my.care.org • http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/world-poverty-distribution • http://www.careaustralia.org • http://global.campaignforeducation.org • http://www.nab.com.au/About_Us/0,,82058,00.html Works Cited

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