An Organization Making a World of Difference
Consider these statistics:
• Women do about 66 percent of the world’s work but earn only 10 percent of the world’s income.
• Women produce 50 percent of the world’s food but own just 1 percent of its farmland.
• Of those living in extreme poverty, 60 percent are women and girls.
• Nearly 66 percent of children who do not attend school are girls.
Although these statistics demonstrate the unfair burden that women carry, they are also an indication of the opportunity for change that exists.
Each year CARE makes that opportunity real for fifty-five million people in sixty-six developing countries. As one of the leading humanitarian organizations in the world, CARE fights global poverty by equipping ...
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