Leading with Care: How Women Around the World are Inspiring Businesses, Empowering Communities, and Creating Opportunity

Creating Opportunity Around the World

CARE has been creating chances for individuals to rebuild their lives by focusing on women at the bottom rung of the social ladder, helping them transform their lives and the lives of those around them. You can find a fascinating example of this in Mali, a landlocked African country overlooked by the modern world of commerce and technology. Even if you traveled to Mali, you’d probably never set foot in Tidayniwane, which is not so much a village as a widely scattered collection of semipermanent tents, home to about forty Tuareg families.

The community has no school or market, and the women walk nearly two miles every day to fetch water from the nearest well. Because the Tuareg are a traditionally nomadic ...