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Geneva, Switzerland , 19/8/2010 -- In Swat Valley, Pakistan, a 48-year-old aid worker named Fazilat is doing what the majority of other aid workers in her area can’t do: providing health care to women. In societies where religion or tradition dictate that women can only speak to or be assisted by other women, female aid workers are a critical element of any response team.

Tangerang, Banten, 12/6/2010 -- June 12, 2010. For the past eight years, the World celebrates the World Day against Child Labor. This year, CARE in Indonesia calls for attention to help returning the child laborer to school and is dedicating the day for the child laborers particularly those who reside and work in Tangerang District and City of Banten Province, Indonesia. In this day, the child laborers would be able to enjoy freedom, happiness and relief themselves from sorrow and any form of exploitation and discrimination.

Gland, Switzerland , 26/5/2010 -- Leading environmental and humanitarian organizations are calling for efforts to combat climate change through halting deforestation to take full account of impacts on forest peoples and species.

CARE and WWF made the call as country delegates head to Oslo for Thursday’s Climate and Forest Conference to ensure that any efforts to combat climate change by reducing forest loss take into account impacts on people and the environment.

Port-au-Prince, Haiti , 30/1/2010 -- CARE is working to prevent and lessen sexual violence in the aftermath of Haiti’s devastating earthquake.
 
Incidents of rape and violence against women were high even before the earthquake, and rates of attacks have increased in previous disasters in Haiti, said Janet Meyers, CARE’s Senior Advisor for Sexual and Reproductive Health in Emergencies.

Aceh, Indonesia, 26/12/2009 -- The coastline of Indonesia was closest to the epicenter of the earthquake that triggered the tsunami, and more than half of the resulting deaths occurred in Indonesia. CARE was among the leading humanitarian agencies that responded to the tsunami, and we have continued to work with affected communities over the past five years to reconstruct homes and livelihoods and promote economic and social development.

 

Copenhagen, Denmark , 19/12/2009 -- World leaders have failed to agree on an ambitious, fair and binding climate deal in Copenhagen. "What came out after two weeks of negotiations is hugely disappointing to all of us and in particular to the world's poorest people"

Copenhagen, Denmark , 16/12/2009 -- The world leaders are gathering in Copenhagen to close the negotiations on a climate agreement. But the status of the negotiations is messy and a fair deal seems to be out of reach unless leaders take action.

10/12/2009 -- “Climate change is worsening the plight of those hundreds of millions of men, women and children who already live in extreme poverty - and it threatens to push hundreds of millions more people into similar destitution. A concerted international response to this unprecedented challenge is required if we are to avoid catastrophic human suffering.”

Copenhagen, Denmark , 9/12/2009 -- Failing to put the interests and rights of people first will undermine efforts to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and squander the real opportunity that exists for these efforts to also contribute to poverty reduction and forest conservation goals. A new set of global standards released at the Copenhagen climate change conference today directly tackles this concern.

COPENHAGEN , 4/12/2009 -- Just three days before climate change treaty negotiations start in Copenhagen, advocates from the poverty-fighting group CARE are imploring delegates not to forget the poorest and most vulnerable people around the world.

Padang Pariaman, Sumatra, Indonesia, 7/10/2009 -- As international relief operations intensify in the earthquake-shattered areas of West Sumatra, CARE is distributing aid into hard-hit areas reachable only by motorbike or on foot. CARE emergency workers say remote areas were hardest-hit by the devastating 7.6 quake Sept. 30, but have received little aid because of blocked roads.

1/10/2009 -- CARE Indonesia emergency team members have deployed to the earthquake-stricken city of Padang, which was hit by another massive quake today. CARE is part of a joint assessment team with government departments, other aid organizations and UN agencies to determine immediate needs of survivors.

Melbourne, Australia , 30/9/2009 -- CARE emergency teams in Vietnam and Laos are responding after Typhoon Ketsana slammed into mainland Asia yesterday, the worst typhoon the region has seen in decades. CARE’s emergency response continues in the Philippines, helping some of the nearly two million people affected by flooding as the same storm ravaged Manila earlier this week.

Atlanta, Georgia, 16/9/2009 -- As banking institutions worldwide flounder, CARE – a leading humanitarian organization that reaches more people in Africa with financial services than any other international group – today unveils a new report that shows that its unique approach to providing Africa’s poor with financial services is thriving.

Geneva, Switzerland , 18/8/2009 -- On the inaugural World Humanitarian Day tomorrow, CARE International pays tribute to humanitarian workers for their ongoing commitment to helping the poorest and most vulnerable around the world. But in the face of increasing attacks against aid workers, CARE is also urging the international community to take a hard look at the reasons why.

Geneva, Switzerland , 6/8/2009 -- As the UN Security Council prepares to discuss tomorrow how to move forward on its commitment to end sexual and gender-based violence, CARE International outlined 15 immediate, concrete steps the UN must take to help end the abomination of rape in armed conflict.

Nairobi, Kenya, 23/2/2009 -- Thousands of women and girls who were sexually assaulted and raped during the post election mayhem that ravaged Kenya one year ago are still waiting for justice and compensation. A year later, only four rape cases have been brought to justice and no one has been convicted so far.

Jakarta, Indonesia, 13/2/2009 -- CARE Indonesia is participating on the forth Coordination Forum for Aceh and Nias (CFAN) held 13-14 February 2009 in the Jakarta Convention Centre held by the Executive Agency for the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction for Aceh and Nias (BRR Aceh-Nias).

Sri Lanka, 29/1/2009 -- Heavy fighting between Government forces and the LTTE in the Northern Sri Lankan region of the Vanni has resulted in death and injury to civilians trapped in the area. The escalation of hostilities between the Government and the LTTE in recent days has significantly increased the number of civilian injuries and
deaths due to the fighting.

Gaza, Occupied Palestinian Territory , 31/12/2008 -- Three CARE cargo trucks carrying life-saving medical supplies to Gaza were granted permission to enter the beleaguered territory late last night, one of the few transports to access the area since the Israeli bombardment of Gaza began Dec. 27. More supplies are urgently needed to treat wounded civilians. CARE calls for an immediate ceasefire and unfettered humanitarian access.

Gaza, 29/12/2008 -- Leading aid agency CARE International has set up a life-saving supply of medicines and equipment to hospitals in Gaza.

Harare, Zimbabwe , 11/12/2008 -- CARE International is implementing emergency measures to prevent the spread of cholera during food distributions in Zimbabwe, where an epidemic has killed more than 746 people and infected nearly 16,000.

Goma, DR Congo, 6/11/2008 -- Sexual violence in the DR Congo has reached “epidemic proportions”, and the new wave of heavy fighting is putting tens of thousands more women and young girls at risk, says CARE. CARE, in partnership with other agencies, is starting a new program to support the increased number of battered and traumatized women.

Nairobi, 15/10/2008 -- In Ethiopia, at least 6.4 million people need emergency food aid. In Somalia, nearly half the population is slowly starving, and the country is facing a food crisis unseen since the famine of the early 1990s. And in Kenya, poor families are paying as much as 80 percent of their income just on food alone.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti , 5/9/2008 -- As Haiti continues to grapple with the aftermath of Tropical Storm Hanna, CARE is sending reinforcements to its disaster-relief team in the hardest-hit region.  

Jakarta, Indonesia, 1/9/2008 -- In response to the health and nutrition survey conducted jointly by CARE, Church World Services (CWS) and Helen Keller International (HKI) in late 2007 in western part of Timor island in NTT province, Coca Cola Amatil and CARE have pledged to take immediate action to urgently treat malnourished children from poor communities in Kupang district.

Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan, 27/8/2008 -- CARE International Indonesia kembali menyelenggarakan Rapat Koordinasi Nasional (Rakornas) XIX. Bertempat di Palangka Raya, 27 hingga 29 Agustus 2008, rapat koordinasi kali ini mengambil tema”Meningkatkan Kerjasama dan Kemitraan Pemerintah RI dengan CARE International Indonesia untuk Kesejahtraan Masyarakat melalui Percepatan Pembangunan di Daerah”.

TBILISI, Georgia , 12/8/2008 -- CARE International in the Caucasus, in cooperation with other humanitarian agencies, is continuing to provide humanitarian assistance to tens of thousands of people displaced by the violent conflict between Georgia and Russia. The immediate needs of the affected populations include beds, food, water and sanitation.

Jakarta, 11/8/2008 -- Starting August, 2008, CARE Indonesia national headquarter move from the old office, Jl. Pattimura no. 33 to a new location in Kuningan Barat.  

CARE International Indonesia
TIFA Building, 10th floor, Suite 1005
Jl. Kuningan Barat 26
Jakarta 12710
Indonesia
Phone: +62 (0) 21 529 222 82
Fax:     +62 (0) 21 529 222 83
Email:   info@careind.or.id

Mexico City, 8/8/2008 -- As the XVI International AIDS Conference draws to a close, CARE is calling for a renewed focus on preventing new HIV infections, especially among women and other vulnerable populations.

Kabul, Afghanistan, 29/6/2008 -- Despite the challenges facing the Afghan people and humanitarian actors working in Afghanistan, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has been worryingly silent and its humanitarian coordination capacity extremely limited. As a consequence, the significant humanitarian problems Afghanistan is facing are disappearing between attention to the war and the desire to demonstrate positive progress and results of the international support in the country.

Jakarta, Indonesia, 12/6/2008 -- In commemoration of the World Day against Child Labour, CARE Indonesia and The National Commission for the Protection of Children (Komnas-PA) hold a Children’s Forum, focusing on Poverty: Solutions and Challenges.

Jakarta, Indonesia, 5/6/2008 -- The forecasted tidal flood in Jakarta and its surrounding areas have impacted thousands of people living in the coastal areas in north of Jakarta and Tangerang. The water level before peak time reached the height of an adult waist in Dadap village, Tangerang, Banten. Despite the condition, only few from a total 1,000 household living in the area were voluntarily relocated to a safer place.

Geneva, 5/5/2008 -- CARE is cooperating with the UN and Myanmar government authorities to assess the destruction from Tropical Cyclone Nargis, and is prepared to respond with immediate aid. Myanmar’s state-owned television and radio reported that 4,000 people died in the storm which struck Myanmar on Saturday. Nearly 3,000 more have been listed as missing, and the final death toll could go much higher.

Jakarta, Indonesia, 14/4/2008 -- Sixty orphans and street children from Jakarta and its surrounding areas learn on how to plant a tree and explore the life of hippopotamus at its own cage in the Ragunan Zoo, South Jakarta, Sunday, April 13, 2008. In the event organized by a volunteer-driven social community KKS Melati and fully supported by the Central Kalimantan Peatland Project (CKPP), the children with age ranged between 6 to 12 years old also learn about various types of forest in Indonesia, including peat lands.

Atlanta, USA, 25/3/2008 -- CARE is distributing farming tools, seeds and fencing materials to nearly 30,000 people in the Bolivian province of Chuquisaca in order to boost recovery from the severe floods that have swept the nation, killing 73 people and affecting nearly half a million others.

Jakarta, Indonesia, 24/3/2008 -- To commemorate the World Tuberculosis Day 2008, CARE International Indonesia encourages all parties to enhance partnership to stop TB at all levels. “TB is a global concern. It is not just a concern for the people with TB, but for everyone,“ says Dr. Kusuma Hartani, CARE’s Technical Program Leader Health. “We must care about stopping TB; and partnership is what it takes to eliminate the global pandemic.”

Nairobi, 6/3/2008 -- In poor communities around the world, natural disasters disproportionately affect women. When disasters strike, women typically have less cash savings, lower levels of education and smaller social networks to draw upon than men.

Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 26/2/2008 -- CARE has scaled up its emergency distributions of food and emergency supplies to people in crisis-stricken Tajikistan with new funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID). A severe energy crisis combined with the harshest winter in 30 years has left millions of people in Tajikistan facing food and fuel shortages.

Madagascar , 26/2/2008 -- CARE International is accelerating its response to humanitarian suffering and damage in Madagascar caused by Cyclone Ivan that struck the small country a week ago. One of the most important tasks is locating and bringing food to the poorest and most marginalized people in remote villages.

Kenya, 8/2/2008 -- Kenya faces a prolonged food crisis, warned CARE International today, and urgent action is needed in the next two weeks to prevent its worst effects.

Dashanbe, Tajikistan, 7/2/2008 -- A severe energy crisis combined with the harshest winter in 30 years has left millions of people in Tajikistan facing food and fuel shortages, and the situation is expected to worsen in the coming weeks, CARE warns. The same severe weather and heavy snowfall that crippled neighboring China has left parts of Tajikistan, a poor country of just seven million people, without heat or water in temperatures that are dropping to -25C at night.

Jakarta, Indonesia, 8/1/2008 -- CARE continues to provide water purifying solution to respond to the urgent need for clean water in Ngawi, one of the districts heavily affected by the recent floods in East Java. One thousand packages of hygiene kits, 1,000 jerry cans and 60,000 sachets of water purifying solution (PUR) have been distributed to 1,000 families in Kwadungan district, Ngawi.

Kenya, 4/1/2008 -- In the wake of violence and destruction throughout Kenya, CARE calls on all parties to find a peaceful and sustainable solution to the current crisis that has enveloped the once calm nation. CARE strongly believes Kenya is a model of economic development and social progress in Eastern Africa, and it is therefore vital that Kenya peacefully comes together to safeguard these achievements.

Jakarta, Indonesia, 30/12/2007 -- In response to wide-spread floods and landslides in East and Central Java, CARE has distributed 1,200 sachets of water purifying solution to affected families in four sub sub-districts in Central Java. The distribution was done in connection with a rapid assessment conducted by a CARE Emergency team in Solo, Central Java with support from KOMPIP, a local NGO.

Dhaka, Bangladesh, 13/12/2007 -- One month after cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh, 8.9 million people are still in urgent need of shelter, safe water and food. They also require new sources of income as shrimp farms and rice paddies have been contaminated with salty water and ruined.

Bali, Indonesia, 11/12/2007 -- Ten years after the Kyoto Protocol was signed, negotiators at the U.N. Climate Change Summit are finally addressing two crucial issues that have been neglected until now: how to move forward on financial support for adaptation to climate change, and how to reduce the carbon emitted from deforestation. Both have critical implications for the livelihoods and well-being of poor communities.

Geneva, 10/12/2007 -- Speaking at the launch of a consolidated UN appeal for $3.8 billion for humanitarian emergencies, CARE’s Secretary General, Dr. Robert Glasser, emphasized the fact that NGOs provide some of the most rapid and effective relief to people affected by humanitarian crises.

Jakarta, 7/12/2007 -- “People whose lives have been affected by conflict need time and support to rebuild their community relationships and their livelihoods. The PULIH project has helped people in this process, by teaching them new skills to improve their incomes, and by facilitating the process of land certification. These are both long-term solutions that will continue to have an impact long after the project funding ends” said Gail Steckley, Country Director of CARE Indonesia.

Bali, Indonesia, 3/12/2007 -- As the 13th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) gets underway in Bali, CARE International is urging all Parties to do more to ensure that climate change policies work for poor people.

Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 30/11/2007 -- On the World AIDS day, Dec 1, CARE International Indonesia in Banda Aceh is involved in a series of activities of commemoration. A collaboration of international and local non governmental organizations, including CARE, the American Red Cross, CWS and MAP, cooperating with various governmental agencies including the KPA (the Indonesian AIDS Commission) have planned various activities.

Geneva, 16/11/2007 --

Lisbon, 5/11/2007 -- EU Development Days – The EU is missing an historic opportunity to fight poverty as well as climate change because it is excluding forestry projects from its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), said CARE International today.

Bonn, Germany, 15/10/2007 -- CARE warns that the wide spread floods and droughts that have spread across Africa and south Asia have had a disproportionate impact on the poorest segments of society.

Geneva, 1/10/2007 -- Sir John Holmes, the United Nations Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, and leading international humanitarian organizations, including CARE, World Vision, Save the Children, Oxfam and Mercy Corps, are calling for increased attention to the continuing flood situation in South Asia.

Bengkulu, Indonesia, 13/9/2007 -- CARE's emergency response workers have arrived in the area of Bengkulu, which was struck by a series of powerful earthquakes yesterday and today that measured as high as 7.9 on the Richter scale. As part of the initial response, CARE is prepared to distribute water purification solution to help prevent the spread of waterborne diseases.

Jakarta, 12/9/2007 -- CARE is mobilizing its resources after an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale struck off the coast of Southern Sumatra today.

WASPAM, Nicaragua, 10/9/2007 -- People in isolated communities on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua are running out of food nearly a week after Hurricane Felix hit the region. The Miskito people, most of whom live from subsistence farming, lost crucial rice, corn, bean and yucca crops in the flood waters.

Atlanta, US, 3/9/2007 -- As Hurricane Felix gains momentum and is anticipated to touch down first in either Honduras or Nicaragua tomorrow afternoon, CARE emergency teams in the region are ready to respond.

Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 22/8/2007 -- CARE is finishing its GRIYO project by delivering training on how to improve GRIYO houses for the beneficiaries, members of the community who were affected by the earthquake in Yogyakarta and Central Java last year. The training is being conducted for one week, starting from the 20th to 24th of August 2007 in Brangkal village, Klaten, East Java. This event also serves as a closing ceremony of the GRIYO project that has been serving the community for the past eight months.

Atlanta, US, 16/8/2007 -- In the wake of a massive 8.0-magnitude earthquake that rocked Peru on Wednesday evening, three CARE teams have been dispatched to affected areas to assess the damage and immediate needs of survivors. CARE staff has already distributed emergency supplies -- clean water, tools, medicine and blankets already on hand -- to some 200 affected families in Chincha and Tambo de Mora, two of the communities most severely affected by the earthquake.

Banda Aceh, 11/5/2007 -- CARE Indonesia, one of the NGOs involved in reconstruction efforts in tsunami-affected areas of Aceh, recruited engineering experts from the Centre for Disaster Mitigation from the Institute of Technology Bandung to conduct a thorough assessment on its houses in Banda Aceh and Aceh Besar.

Nairobi, Kenya, 22/4/2007 -- Degradation of environmental resources and “grabbing” of these increasingly scarce assets by the rich and powerful are a fundamental obstacles to achieving the Millennium Development Goals and 2015 targets set by the United Nations. In a report entitled Reclaiming Rights and Resources released on the occasion of Earth Day, CARE presents personal accounts from across Africa of how environmental problems directly impact the lives of the rural poor and specifically the lives of women.

Lambaro Skep, Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 6/3/2007 -- In order to help replace some of their assets and clothing destroyed by the fire, CARE will give a donation of Rp. 1 million per head of household and Rp. 500.000 for each family member.

Jakarta, 5/2/2007 -- CARE is distributing food and water purification solution to more than 15,000 flood-affected people after the worst floods to hit Jakarta in five years.

Aceh, 25/12/2006 -- CARE is sending blankets, tarps and emergency supplies to the thousands of people affected by flooding in the north, east and central parts of Aceh. More than 60 people have reportedly died and up to 170,000 people have been affected after days of heavy rain left entire villages under water.

Lambaro Skep, Banda Aceh, 4/12/2006 -- On Dec. 5, Drs. Razaly Yussuf, Acting Mayor of Banda Aceh, will officially open two puskesmas rebuilt by CARE in Lambaro Skep and Lueng Bata, marking the beginning of new, improved health care for the community.

Yogyakarta, 6/8/2006 -- With an active volcano spewing toxic gas and lava nearby, health experts are warning that an even greater threat to the earthquake survivors in Java is the outbreak of disease and water-borne illnesses such as diarrhea, typhoid and hepatitis.

30/5/2006 -- CARE will provide safe water for 10,000 families in earthquake-stricken Indonesia – nearly one quarter of the affected population.

29/5/2006 -- CARE staff, in coordination with a local Indonesian partner, are distributing 1,200 bottles of water purification solution in Klaten, one of the most remote and hardest-hit areas after Saturday’s devastating earthquake.

28/5/2006 -- CARE staff from Indonesia are participating in the emergency UN assessment team in the earthquake-stricken region of Yogyakarta, focusing particularly on the needs of remote rural areas that were devastated by the disaster.

19/5/2006 -- CARE’s housing construction program has been hailed as following the best standards for building in Aceh

1/5/2006 -- In a day of games and laughter, tsunami-affected children in Jantho will win toys, games and school supplies from CARE and a generous donor in Australia

11/4/2006 -- CARE has been ranked as one of the top ten most accountable NGOs working in Aceh in a recent survey on reconstruction practices