Fundraising Archives - CARE Australia

CARE launches emergency appeal following Cyclone Idai in southern Africa

Aid agency CARE Australia has launched an emergency appeal to help families in southern Africa who have been affected by the devastating Cyclone Idai and subsequent flooding. Cyclone Idai has triggered a major disaster with more than 1.5 million people affected. Officials expect the death toll to rise above 1,000 in Mozambique alone while Zimbabwe […]

CARE Australia launches Disaster Response Depot in preparation for humanitarian emergencies

CARE Australia has today launched its online Disaster Response Depot, allowing Australians to help the organisation keep its emergency response warehouse in Brisbane stocked to meet future humanitarian crises. CARE Australia’s Emergency Response Manager Adam Poulter said the launch comes as we’re seeing the highest levels of human suffering since the Second World War. “Hundreds […]

One year after Nepal earthquakes: Thousands of survivors still lack basic necessities

A year on from the devastating earthquakes in Nepal, aid agency CARE Australia is calling for reconstruction efforts to be accelerated. The magnitude-7.8 earthquake, which struck on 25 April 2015, and a further massive quake on 12 May killed nearly 9,000 people and injured more than 22,000 others. CARE’s Country Director in Nepal, Lora Wuennenberg, […]

Yemen is the crisis that the world forgot

Originally published in the Herald Sun and Herald Sun online. Small talk can be difficult with someone who lives in Yemen. Questions about family often turn to dead relatives. Talk about a bad night’s sleep and you might find yourself in a conversation about nightly bombing raids. Such was the case recently in Jordan, when I […]

CARE Australia and Virgin Australia partner to support development across Asia-Pacific

CARE Australia and Virgin Australia today announced a partnership to support CARE’s work with thousands of poor communities in the Asia-Pacific region. The partnership begins with Virgin Australia’s major sponsorship of the Walk In Her Shoes Challenge, which sees thousands of Australians walking 25, 50 or 100 kilometres over one week, replicating the distances that […]

Ninety three per cent of Australians aren’t walking recommended daily distance: study

New research, released by CARE Australia, has shown that 93 per cent of Australians are walking less than the recommended daily distance for general health and well-being. Results of the study, released to mark the national Walk In Her Shoes Challenge, have revealed that the average Australian walks only 3.2 kilometres per day – the [...]