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CARE Surveys Global Financial Crisis on the Poor |
By Robert Glasser
Secretary General
CARE International
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Until relatively recently, the economic crisis has not had a major impact on the world’s poorest people. However, our most recent survey of CARE Country Offices completed at the beginning of March 2009 suggests the impacts of the crisis are now being felt in most places in which we operate, with the pace and severity of the impacts likely to increase significantly in the months ahead.
If the global economy continues to worsen as expected, it will trigger a major reversal in the fight against poverty. Nearly one billion people now live on less than US$1 per day. The World Bank estimates that the financial crisis will push an additional 53 million people into poverty . It is sobering to consider that in Indonesia alone as a result of the 1997-1998 Asian Financial Crisis, the number of people living in poverty doubled.
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CARE Helps Families Move Away from the Edge of Hunger in Mozambique |
By Faith Amon
CARE Consultant
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In the district of Meconta, in the Nampula province of Mozambique, most families live on less than one dollar a day. Malnutrition is common for children and adults in this area and climate change affects on the frequency and duration of annual rains leaving poorer communities increasingly vulnerable to low rainfall and underproductive agricultural seasons.
Nampula province is the second most populated province in Mozambique and has the highest population density, it also has the highest degree of malnutrition. Families have been subsistence farming here since they established their homes. Often the poor crop result isn’t enough to feed the family let alone produce enough to sell, or save for the dry
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CARE Partnershi Helps Ghanaian Farmers Think Ahead. By WFP |
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Poor farmers in Ghana harvest too little to feed their families, let alone to build lasting food security. A collaboration between Care International and CARE International means they can plant more seeds and still have enough food for their families while they wait for the harvest.
Mahamdu Zuuru and his family Copyright:WFP/Agustine Yirideme
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| Niger Economic Program leads to Womens Political Power |
By Zaharou Mamam Sani
CARE Administrator |
In 1992, when the idea of a micro credit and savings program emerged from the first project in the Maradi Region (in south central Niger), it was hard to imagine that its impact on rural women would be more than solely an economic one. More than a decade later, the results are impressive, if not remarkable: The program, called, MMD has gone far beyond its initial bounds and continues to make enormous strides.
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CARE LAUNCHES GRIPPING VIDEO OF KENYA POST-ELECTON RAPE VICTIMS’ SEARCH FOR JUSTICE |
By Bea Spadacini
CARE Communications Manager
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Thousands of women and girls who were sexually assaulted and raped during the post election mayhem that ravaged Kenya one year ago are still waiting for justice and compensation from the authorities. A year later, only four rape cases have been brought to justice and no one has been convicted so far.
CARE International has just launched a compelling video of their plight, which can be seen on YouTube.
Click here to view
Although a power-sharing agreement was signed last year on the 27th of February that effectively put an end to the ethnic-driven fighting in the aftermath of the 2007 national elections, many people continue to suffer from the impacts of the violence that left at least 1300 killed and more than 600,000 displaced.
“Women who were raped did not immediately report this crime for fear of being stigmatized in their communities or chased out of their homes by angry husbands,” explains Ellyjoy Karimi, Project officer for CARE in Kenya. “There was also fear of reprisal from the perpetrators, many of whom are still out and about or are men in uniforms.”
Rape is often used as a weapon of war during conflict and Kenya one year ago was no exception. According to the Federation of Women Lawyers in Kenya, the actual number of rapes committed during post election violence last year is likely to total over 3,000.
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