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Learn about usIn Latacunga, Ecuador, women farmers built an agroecological market that connects their harvest directly to customers. What began with seven women is now a thriving collective of 120 farmers growing food, income, and dignity for their families and communities.
Read MoreHigh in Ecuador’s Andes, the páramo is both a “water factory” and a wildfire risk zone. In Pedro Moncayo, farmer and community leader Hilario Morocho and his neighbors use ancestral minga labor to protect water, prevent fires, and defend their future amid climate change and extractive industry pressures.
Read MoreOn the slopes of Mount Chimborazo, Indigenous women are cultivating ancient potato varieties using traditional methods. Their work preserves cultural heritage, strengthens local agriculture, and supports families facing the pressures of a changing climate.
Read MoreCARE is there delivering lifesaving aid and defending the lives of families in crisis.
From the markets of Uganda to the hills of Ecuador, savings groups are helping women and youth turn small investments into lasting change. These groups drive entrepreneurship, digital innovation, and community resilience.
Read MoreSeemingly overnight, peaceful Ecuador became one of the most dangerous countries in the world. This family’s decision to leave was not based on a particular incident, but the ever-present violence that made life in Quito intolerable.
Read MoreClimate change is a global crisis, but it doesn’t impact everyone equally. It’s a double injustice for women and girls, because when the hurricanes hit coastlines, when the droughts kill crops, and when the rivers flood their banks, it all makes the existing inequalities between men and women, boys and girls, that much worse.
Read MoreTo shift norms and attitudes surrounding the widespread violence against women and girls among domestic workers, CARE Ecuador, in partnership with Meta, ran a social and behavior change communication campaign from October to November of 2022.
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