CARE International in Cambodia

CARE has been working with Cambodians since 1973, providing relief and development assistance within Cambodia and subsequently to Cambodian refugees on the Thai border. Since 1991, the re-opened office in Phnom Penh has worked in many areas including emergency relief, preparedness, health, education, livelihoods and gender-based violence.

Today, CARE focuses on empowering particularly marginalised and vulnerable women in Cambodia, including urban women who are marginalised by occupation, rural women who are denied multiple rights, and women and girls from ethnic minorities.

Over the years CARE has previously worked in almost all provinces across Cambodia. Today, CARE focuses primarily on the north-east of the country and in Phnom Penh and the surounding areas.

Who is CARE?

CARE has been working with Cambodians since 1973, providing relief and development assistance within Cambodia and subsequently to Cambodian refugees on the Thai border. Since 1991, the re-opened office in Phnom Penh has worked in many areas including emergency relief, preparedness, health, education, livelihoods and gender-based violence.

Today, CARE focuses on empowering particularly marginalised and vulnerable women in Cambodia, including urban women who are marginalised by occupation, rural women who are denied multiple rights, and women and girls from ethnic minorities.

Over the years CARE has previously worked in almost all provinces across Cambodia. Today, CARE focuses primarily on the north-east of the country and in Phnom Penh and the surounding areas.

CARE works in over 110 countries, reaching more than 170 million people through 1,600 projects. We no longer deliver just physical CARE Packages, but we continue to be guided by the spirit of innovation, scale, and helping those most in need that animated our work in the beginning.
Our mission is to defeat poverty. We know that we cannot do this unless we achieve gender justice, so we have a real focus on women and girls.

We are global and have true scaled reach and impact, but we are deeply rooted in communities. Ninety-five percent of our staff come from the communities where we serve.

CARE is a trusted organization with an extraordinary reputation for programmatic integrity, but is also innovating and embracing creative new solutions like impact investing and market-based approaches.

To learn more, visit www.care.org.