Top Ten Facts about CARE

1. Care is one of the top three aid agencies in the world. They work in 70 countries with more than 48 million poor and marginalised people.
   
   
2. Worldwide, they run 156 HIV and AIDS projects helping 12 million people live with the disease and its consequences as well as preventing its spread through information and education campaigns.
   
   
3. They are working with more than 600,000 people across the tsunami-affected region to help rebuild their lives through new homes, jobs, healthcare, water and sanitation and psychosocial support.
   
   
4. Since the 1950s, an estimated 10 million people in 30 countries have gained access to safe drinking water through their water and sanitation programmes. In 2005 alone, they provided safe water for some 730,000 people and improved sanitation for more than 600,000.
   
   
5. They support more than 800,000 people in 39 countries to set up small business activities, for example by giving small loans or running village savings projects. In 2005, they helped individuals and poor communities around the world to save approximately £53 million and generated loans worth £65 million.
   
   
6. They built or repaired 62,000 kilometres of road in 2005.
   
   
7. They help more than 1,400,000 children get a good education. Nearly 70,000 children around the world are in schools directly supported by CARE. And in 2005, they trained more than 3,000 teachers.
   
   
8. CARE's child health projects reach nearly 7 million children to help reduce their vulnerability to disease. And in 2005, they helped more than 100,000 women around the world to give birth safely.
   
   
9. They run programmes in more than 100 cities around the world aimed at improving quality of life and access to services for people living in slums.
   
   
10. CARE has provided emergency shelter and safety in camps for nearly 300,000 people.