CARE
En el mundo
- Ciudad, Estado Atlanta, GA
Sobre mí
CARE (www.care.org) is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. Recognizing that women and girls suffer disproportionately from poverty, CARE places special emphasis on empowering them to create permanent social change. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, expand economic opportunity, increase access to health services and protect natural resources in over seventy countries around the world.
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de Economica:
Readers of Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's bestselling book Half the Sky might recognize the name Goretti Nyabenda: she was profiled in the book as an example of an empowered woman who was able to transform her status in her community, her economic situation, and her relationship with her husband after joining a CARE village savings and loan group in which she pooled her savings and took out a loan from the savings group to start her own business. At the 2010 National CARE conference in Washington, D.C., Goretti was the recipient of the "I am Powerful Award," which honors a woman who has worked with CARE programs to change her own life and the life of her family and community. IMOW's Vice President of Programs and Exhibitions Catherine King spoke with Goretti about what she has learned from microfinance.
de Economica:
Sabemos que, cuando las mujeres se organizan y participan en la economía, los ingresos de su hogar aumentan, lo que les permite invertir en la salud, la comida y la educación de su familia y establecer una base sólida para la estabilidad y el desarrollo en su comunidad. Pero en países en vías de desarrollo con una generalizada discriminación de género, casi ninguna industria y pocos o ningún trabajo en el sector privado, las mujeres por lo general tienen que crear sus propias oportunidades económicas. Ahí es donde los programas de microfinanzas de CARE -que brinda servicios financieros para los pobres- pueden marcar una diferencia. Phil Borges tomó fotografías de mujeres que participan en las asociaciones de préstamos y ahorros de CARE.
