Girls

Just a girl, changing the world on International Day of the Girl 2024

By CARE Staff • October 5, 2024

Four young girls, from Mali to Syria, share their inspiring stories of fighting for equality, climate action, and mental health.

In Nepal: Forced to marry at 10

By Hillol Sobhan • July 23, 2024

Learn how CARE’s Tipping Point program is trying to prevent child, early, and forced marriage in Nepal where five million girls are child brides.

A birth story from Sierra Leone: “Take my baby, mama. I’m going to die”

By Jacky Habib • November 10, 2023

Isatu's story of losing her daughter to childbirth complications in Sierra Leone, highlighting the dire need for accessible maternal healthcare.

Ukraine: ‘This is how most Roma girls live’

By Halyna Bilak • November 3, 2023

Throughout her childhood and adolescence, Svitlana had lived in Roma settlement. Only recently, at 28, has she learned to write her own name.

Empowering girls in Bangladesh through karate, climate-smart gardening, & more

By Sarah Easter and Hillol Sobhan • October 23, 2023

In Bangladesh, 40 million people are food insecure, with 11 million suffering from acute hunger. One of the key objectives of CARE’s innovative nutrition project Joint Action for Nutrition Outcome (JANO) is to address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls. With different innovative approaches including community participation, JANO has already reached over one million people where 61 percent a

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