CARE International Organization

CARE International organization is an international alliance that includes 12 international organizations working in harmony to eliminate poverty. CARE International is a leading humanitarian anti-poverty organization. Its message focuses on serving individuals and families in the most disadvantaged communities. CARE encourages innovative solutions to humanitarian issues, facilitating constant change throughout. It also strengthens individuals' independence, provides economic opportunities, provides crisis management at times of emergency, influences policy making decisions on all levels, and fights all forms of discrimination, using local community aspirations as guidance.

Among some of CARE Sohag's various developmental programs are the following:

1. An education program, which focuses on teachers, students, parents, and inspectors
2. Natural resource programs to develop agriculture, irrigation, and sanitation
3. Women's rights anti-violence program, which ensures gender equality through equal representation in laws and legislations, especially acts which preserve women's rights, as well as lawsuit-filing, law-activation, and economic empowerment
4. Building organizational skills to support women from rural societies

Main Activity:

Ongoing projects

• Men and Women for Equality project
• Involving men in the fight against gender-based violence
• "Our Children's Wheat" project, which raises awareness on obesity and good nutrition

Past projects

• Women's Right to Inheritance project, which aims to achieve gender equality and raise awareness of legal inheritance rights
• The Safety and Security project, which tackles domestic violence, divorce, FGM, and inheritance issues
• Loans and savings groups

Future projects

• Involving men to end violence against women.
• Loans and savings groups

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