Media Releases

New analysis highlights 15 countries most at risk from COVID-19

As more COVID-19 cases emerge in developing countries, a new analysis by the international aid agency CARE highlights the 15 countries most at risk. Using data from the INFORM Global Risk Index, CARE has found the countries which are generally at “very high risk” of crisis have three times higher exposure to epidemics and six […]

Somalia: Time running out to avoid mass starvation

International donors must urgently scale up the response to Somalia’s worsening food crisis to avoid a full scale famine, CARE International warns. Speaking after visiting some of the country’s worst affected areas, CARE’s Somalia Country Director, Raheel Nazir Chaudhary, said many communities remained cut off from lifesaving humanitarian aid. “By now we should see trucks […]

CARE Australia welcomes additional Australian funding for hunger crises in South Sudan and Somalia

CARE Australia welcomes the Federal Government’s commitment of an additional $20 million to support the people suffering from severe hunger and malnutrition in South Sudan and Somalia.

Out of school and into marriage: 39,000 girls forced to marry every day

Girls in 26 countries are more likely to be forced into marriage than to enroll in secondary school, research from CARE has found. The report, Vows of Poverty, has been released to mark the International Day of the Girl on 11 October and provides a snapshot of the forces that drive girls into marriage and […]

10,000 letters from tsunami survivors delivered at Boxing Day Test

CARE Australia and the Australian cricket community have partnered in a moving event to mark 10 years since the Boxing Day tsunami, with 10,000 letters of thanks from tsunami survivors delivered to cricket fans at the Commonwealth Bank Boxing Day Test. The Thanks for Caring Australia campaign kicked off today with the arrival at the […]