Since COVID-19, CARE has undertaken concerted efforts to listen to women and girls and learn the impacts of the pandemic on women's lives, their greatest needs, and how they are responding. A segment of women and girls CARE engaged in these conversations have been members of VSLAs. This case study features the story of 45-year-old VSLA leader, Christine Sibomana from Burundi. Christine was interviewed in December 2021 as part of CARE's Women Respond initiative.
Vietnam is the second largest coffee producer in the world, however local smallholder producers face many challenges. This brief outlines the positive impacts – both intended and unintended – experienced by women farmers from ethnic minority communities as a result of the Technologically Enhanced Agricultural Livelihoods (TEAL) project. Read More
Around the world, CARE is in countries working to protect and enhance food, water, and nutrition security in vulnerable communities. Read More
A bipartisan delegation of six U.S. Congressional Representatives traveled to Kenya with CARE and Save the Children’s Action Network to learn about how U.S. foreign investments are enabling communities to thrive and find durable solutions to hunger and malnutrition in the region, even as they experience economic hardship, conflict, and humanitarian crises. Read More