Welcome to CARE International UK (CIUK)
CIUK is part of CARE International, a global humanitarian organisation working with over 45 million disadvantaged people in 70 of the world's poorest countries. CARE International is one of the world's largest independent global relief and development organisations. Non-political and non-religious, it operates in over 70 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
With its secretariat in Belgium, CARE International's 12 members in Europe, Australia, North America, Thailand and Japan support projects that benefit more than 45 million people every year. Each of the CARE International members is an autonomous, nationally-registered, non-profit organisation, contributing to and helping manage more than 800 programmes around the world. CARE International's staff is truly international. Out of more than 12,000 employees, more than 90 percent are nationals of the countries where CARE runs programmes.Many governments and institutions including the United Nations, World Bank, European Commission and British Government, support CARE International's programmes across the globe.
CARE is an independent humanitarian organisation working to end world poverty. With programmes in about 70 countries, CARE touches the lives of over 45 million of the world's poorest people. Whether supporting primary health care, promoting sustainable agriculture or developing savings and loan schemes, our programmes promote positive and lasting change and reduce long-term dependency.
CARE also provides emergency food and shelter to survivors of natural disasters, wars and conflicts. We remain with communities long after initial relief efforts are completed and support initiatives to enable people to rebuild their lives and to face the future with renewed confidence. To read more about our projects and the countries in which we work
Tsunami Stories:
'Why couldn't you save my brother, daddy?'
There was a man, standing alone, away from the crowd of people who had rushed up
to greet the team of CARE staff who arrived at the Welfare Centre in Thiriyai
Senthoor to provide relief to a community whose lives changed when the tidal
waves hit Trincomalee only two days ago.
By Chitose Noguchi, National Director, CARE Japan, January 2005
A Dark New Year
Exactly one week after the terrible Tsunami that claimed tens of thousands of
lives in south Asia . You would think that the mood in Chennai, capital of Tamil
Nadu – the worst affected state in India – would be decidedly somber.
By Madhuri Dass, January 2005
The Hospital and Village that Disappeared into the Waves
The only hospital in Sinnai Kinniya is gone, along with everyone in it, except
for one doctor. His 145 patients and 10 nurses and staff are gone, washed away -
children, pregnant mothers, the ill and the weak - the most vulnerable who
should have been the first to be rescued.
By Chitose Noguchi, January 2005