“I am Powerful!” What does it mean? Is it a political action? No, it is a new brand of CARE, a campaign that put the focus on women`s empowerment.
The CARE campaign "I am powerful" portrais women from different contries. Here a Cambodian woman shows that with her vegetable garden she can feed the family. (Photo:CARE Australia)
It really caught my attention. Since the beginning of my internship, I saw it many times, both on the CARE website and in many information leaflets.
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.
It’s World AIDS Day today, a pertinent day to be in Uganda, a country which has been recognised for its efforts to stem the tide of HIV. Still, in Uganda, nearly 6 per cent of the population is HIV positive. I’ve noticed here though that there’s an openness to discuss HIV that I’ve not encountered in other places. (more…)
I had terrible nightmares last night. Haunting, terrifying dreams where people I love and trust attacked and hurt me. I woke up in a cold sweat, petrified. (more…)
Today we’re in Kitgum, a small town about an hour’s drive from Pader. Two coach loads of women have joined us from Pader, and today another coach of Kitgum women will join the caravan. Today’s march through Kitgum town centre was exhilarating. Local women came out to clap, cheer and dance us along our way. (more…)
One hundred women marched through the town of Pader to raise awareness for women’s rights (photo: CARE)
November 27, 2009.
Today our journey continues from Gulu to Pader – an hour and a half by road, dodging potholes and wandering cattle on the way. Our party has grown. Jenny (the photographer I am traveling with), Grace and I have been joined by Judith, CARE Uganda’s sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) focal point, and James, a local consultant who’s been hired to translate from Acholi to English for us. (more…)
“No small problem in Uganda”: violence against women is often invisible, but never acceptable (photo: CARE/Gignoux)
Lee Webster, from our CARE London office, is joining women activists, all survivors of rape, who are embarking on a four-day march from their home in the conflict-affected north to the capital Kampala to meet their politicians and say enough is enough. (more…)
Goma, Nov. 24, 2008 – Another trip to new displacement sites in Goma brings more stories and more questions about what people really need in times of conflict.Some needs are evident – shelter, clean water, food, clothes – but others are harder to see and therefore harder to respond to.That is certainly the case when it comes to responding to sexual violence.
In a church in Goma, there are more than 1,000 people gathered, having fled their homes in the past few weeks.Since our last visit, a few hundred more people have arrived. The other sites I have been to in Goma are smaller, with a few families from the same town or village moving together and setting themselves up in the same site.But in this church I find people from all over and from farther away, Masisi and western Rutshuru, and many of them came alone.(more…)
Elisabeth Roesch is CARE’s gender and advocacy advisor based in Goma, DRC.
Goma, Nov. 7, 2008 – I’ve been in the DRC for a year, working with women who have experienced abuse and violence and talking to them about the impact that this has had on their lives. Thanks to numerous news articles and increasing international attention, the horrific nature of sexual violence here in Congo is becoming known in the world. But nothing has really prepared me for the stories that I have heard, and each time I speak with women, I am saddened to find that there is no end to the terrible experiences of rape, torture and mutilation. (more…)
One month in Germany is enough for me to adjust to its very changing weather. Before, it used to be funny to me that weather is usually mentioned either in the first or last of conversation whenever people make appointments. (more…)
