New strategy will empower girls by helping prevent the harmful practice of child marriage
Girls' Education
3/8/16
Hain Celestial Personal Care Brands and CARE® Celebrate the Launch of a Girls’ Education and Leadership Project with Limited Edition Products
LAKE SUCCESS, NY (March 8, 2016) — Alba Botanica®, Avalon Organics® and JĀSÖN® brands, along with CARE®— a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty — are honored to announce the Qach'Umilal Girls’ Education and Leadership Project.
1/21/16
Joyce’s Story: “When a girl is educated, she is a blessing to the family”
It’s a sunny Tuesday afternoon at CARE’s Nutrition Centre in Mankien, Unity state. Joyce* is sitting on the tiled floor breast feeding two of her children: Peter and Rose, twins of 12 months.
3/20/15
Marketplace: Michelle Obama Promotes Girls' Education in Asia
First lady Michelle Obama is traveling in Asia this week to promote a new initiative with the Peace Corps aimed at closing the education gap for girls.
3/3/15
White House Taps CARE to Help Train Peace Corps Volunteers under Let Girls Learn Initiative
WASHINGTON (March 3, 2015) — More than 50 years after former President John F.
1/20/15
#AskTheExpert about Girls’ Education
An estimated 66 million children around the world are out of school; most of them girls. Investing in girls’ education is a fundamental to reducing global poverty, yet millions of girls face huge challenges when it comes to accessing educational opportunities.
9/9/14
The Huffington Post - While Most Kids Wrapped Up 1st Week Of School, 31 Million Girls Were Kept Out Of Classrooms
Across the globe, students stocked up on fresh supplies and caught up with old classmates last week. But for 31 million girls, there were no teachers to meet, no first-day jitters to quell and no new homework to get cracking on.
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CARE's work to bring education to the most marginalized
CARE's approach to pioneering efforts in leadership development and programming
CARE's Information and Communications Technology approach draws on a human-centered design process.
Schools themselves have increasingly come under attack in conflict settings.
Building upon its Leadership Development Framework, CARE's education effort enhances basic education by providing unique opportunities...
Worldwide, a staggering 263 million children and youth are out of school according to UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS) data.
CARE makes a commitment to educate 3 million girls as part of "Let Girls Learn" initiative.
This project brief covers the DFID-funded Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC) project led by CARE in Somalia, the Somali Girls Education...
PTLA, a three-year public-private partnership built on a broad base of collaboration between CARE, USAID, civil society organizations (...
January 2015
Addressing inequities; Empowering learners
This 5 page brief discusses what we know about GBV in education and how childhood exposure to GBV impacts behavior later in life. It...
This 28 page report describes a literature review of what we know about preventing GBV in educational settings, as well as key...
CARE is a signatory to Girl Declaration and helped with its development.
Making a Difference: Empowering Girls, Expanding Knowledge, Addressing Poverty
Education Findings from the Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative
Feb 2012 Girls Leadership Program Brief
Whether it’s basketball or soccer, boxing or swimming, sport builds character and promotes teamwork.
As we celebrate International Day of the Girl, we can’t help remind ourselves of our own childhood.
We believe that the greatest obstacle to girls’ education is the low social status in which girls are held.
The right to education is fundamental to the attainment and exercise of all human rights.
The world’s future will be largely shaped by today’s girls and tomorrow’s women.