In pictures: 70 years of CARE

Did you know European nations were some of the first to receive international aid? Or that Ronald Reagan and Donald Duck have lent their voices to CARE’s poverty-fighting agenda? To commemorate our 70th birthday this 27 November, we look back on seven decades of CARE in pictures.

Charity began at home

Many of us associate CARE’s work with helping communities in developing countries. But did you know that for some donors, charity began at home? On the eve of CARE’s 70th birthday this 27 November, Gillian Roberts from the UK shares her story of how receiving CARE packages during her family’s darkest days helped to brighten her world.

World Toilet Day

Happy World Toilet Day! Why have a day for such an unglamorous invention? Because in some parts of the world, better sanitation and hygiene – including proper toilets – is helping bring relief in more ways than one.

El Nino: Crisis on our doorstep

Financial aid from the Australian Government to help some of our closest neighbours mitigate the effects of El Nino has been welcomed. $9 million has been pledged to Pacific countries facing food and water shortages including Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. However, continued assistance will be needed.

The house that pigs built

Thanks to a CARE-supported project, pig farming is a becoming an unlikely poverty-fighting tool in rural Vietnam.

Nepal earthquake: Six months on

When a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal on 25 April 2015, the world’s attention was suddenly on the developing Himalayan country. But six months on – and after all the TV crews have left – how are communities faring? CARE’s Lucy Beck tells.

We put women and girls at the heart of our work. CARE Australia is a leading international aid organisation that works around the globe to save lives and defeat poverty.

We put women and girls at the heart of our work.

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