by Lee Webster

Goodness, is it really my last day in Uganda? I wake up with a whole mixture of emotions. I’m so privileged to have shared this special journey with women who I now count as friends. I’m hopeful, yet aware of Ugandan women’s struggle for a violence free future.  And I’m sad that I’ll be leaving the campaign in Uganda behind – although determined that when I get back to the CARE office in the UK, we will continue to support it. (more…)

The COP15 in Copenhagen (or “Brokenhagen”, as some like to call it now) is over. CARE is in no way happy with the results of this mega-event. This is why we will put even more effort in helping the poorest of the poor to adapt to a changing climate and get out of poverty.

Speaking from Copenhagen, Robert Glasser (Secretary General of CARE International), Geoffrey Dennis (National Director of CARE UK) and Niels Tofte (National Director of CARE Denmark share their view on climate change and how it will impact the work of CARE in the future. (more…)

Here is CARE’s Secretary General Robert Glasser giving a speech in Copenhagen downtown on yesterday’s humanitarian day. The day also highlighted that women and children in developing countries already spend hours every day fetching water. Climate change means that they will have to walk even further as wells dry up. To draw attention to this fact, the opening was followed by a youth solidarity event where Danish school girls carried carry water containers. They walked from Kongens Nytorv all the way to the Bella Centre – about 6 kilometres. Danish-Zambian singer Karen Mukupa sent the girls off with a song.

CARE at Humanitarian Day from CARE & Climate Change on Vimeo. (more…)

Today, we have two videos on the work of CARE in Copenhagen.  The first one features Cynthia Awuor, CARE’s regional climate change coordinator for eastern and central Africa. She explains the impact of climate change on Africa and especially the women living there. Cynthia has also written a letter to the negotiators at Copenhagen. Read it at the homepage of CARE Canada. In the second video, CARE’s international climate change adaption coordinator Angie Dazé will give an introduction to Community Based Adaption.

Cynthia Awuor on climate change in Africa and its impact on women:

Climate impacts on East and Central Africa from CARE & Climate Change on Vimeo.

Angie Dazé on Community Based Adaption:

CARE’s approach to CBA: Community-Based Adaptation from CARE & Climate Change on Vimeo.

Ulrich Bang, CARE International Sustainable Energy Advisor in Ghana, explains the importance of developing and implementing sustainable and poverty-related energy projects.

Climate change and energy from CARE & Climate Change on Vimeo.

Adolphine Byayuwa Muley is one of CARE’s experts from the south. She is the founder of UEFA, a non-profit organisation working to assist marginalised and indigenous groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hear her talk about her advocacy work in Copenhagen on behalf of those groups in the following video:

Hopes at COP15 for indigenous women from CARE & Climate Change on Vimeo.

Sofia Sprechmann, deputy director for CARE Latin-America and the Caribbean, talks about the women and climate change. Women make up 70 percent of the global poor and will be heavily affected by climate change.

Women & climate change from CARE & Climate Change on Vimeo.

CARE policy analyst Christina Chan explains why a fair, ambitious and legally binding deal on adaptation is so important:

CARE’s Position on Adaptation from CARE & Climate Change on Vimeo.

Dec. 10 – Marcos Athias Neto, CARE Strategic Director for Partnership and Climate Change, explains the links between climate change and food security – including examples of good and bad approaches on the lives of those most vulnerable to climate change.

Raja Jarrah, CARE International Climate Change Advisor on REDD, explains REDD, and how CARE is working to influence the negotiations in this area so that it specifically benefits poor and marginalized people. REDD will be the focus of a workshop at COP this evening from 18:15-19:45.

CARE’s Position on REDD from CARE & Climate Change on Vimeo. (more…)