Distributing supplies in Solomon Islands after Tropical Cyclone Harold, April 2020 © Sosimo Narasia/CARE
CARE Australia works to defeat global poverty by supporting women to create lasting change in their communities around the world. We work in partnership with local communities and organisations, including Live and Learn and MORDI Tonga Trust, to prepare for, respond to, and recover from humanitarian crises and shock.
Through the Australian Humanitarian Partnership (AHP), CARE Australia has received funds to respond to Cyclone Gita in Tonga (shelter, protection and WASH activities); the Ambae volcano in Vanuatu (protection, health, education and WASH activities); the highlands earthquake in Papua New Guinea (protection, shelter, WASH and early recovery activities); the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh (health, nutrition, WASH, protection and education activities); flooding in Laos (gender/protection); the Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia (WASH, shelter and gender/protection); as well as protracted crises in Lebanon (livelihood activities) and Iraq (gender/protection and health).
Within the AHP Disaster READY program, CARE Australia is implementing disaster preparedness activities in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste and Vanuatu.