Little Known Ways to Help Families

Reaching Out With CARE

CARE, a leading humanitarian organization fighting poverty, is helping mothers around the world live better lives to better support their families.

Families in poverty stricken areas around the country need your help. One hard-working woman, Marie, a mother of three and a widow living in the Androy region of Madagascar, struggled to support her family for many years with farming, but only earned 75 cents a day.

Marie explains, "In the lean season, we ate only once a day — at night. During the day, we had only mangoes and cactus fruit as substitutes for meals."

Once Marie began participating in a CARE-supported farmers' association, she exercised her right to 25 acres of her family's farm. She is now able to feed her children three meals a day and also earns as much as $5 a day at the market by selling the wider variety of crops she learned to grow.

CARE encourages YOU to help mothers like Marie improve their skills, feed their families and earn their way out of poverty by making a tax-deductible gift today.

Here are some ways your support can make a difference:

• $56 can give 7 women like Marie seed packets to start their own garden and increase their family's income.

• $92 can supply 2 women like Dedicaciona in Peru with garden tool kits — including a spade, watering can and more — to cultivate their crop

• $150 can provide a woman like Farida in Bangladesh with a soil testing kit so that she can
  improve her harvest and help her community.

Marie says, "I have many goals I want to achieve in the future. I want to improve my family's lives and save for my children."

With YOUR help, you can help women like Marie, their families and those in their communities from living in poverty.

WOTW and Care thank you for your support. To learn how to continue helping others, please follow @womenwotw1 and @CARE on Twitter.