Charity Partner

CARE Australia is the Official Charity Partner of 2011 Sydney New Year’s Eve

CARE Australia is an international humanitarian aid organisation that has been defending dignity and fighting global poverty for 25 years. We focus on empowering women and girls as we know this is the most effective way to help communities overcome poverty.

Generous Sydneysiders have helped raise almost $260,000 for the Lord Mayor’s East Africa Food Crisis Appeal. Click here to read the media release.

Message from the Lord Mayor

CARE’s community-based programs focus on empowering women while working to improve a community’s access to education, healthcare, clean water and sanitation, economic opportunity and to protect natural resources. CARE is also a global leader in delivering emergency aid to survivors of conflict and natural disasters.

East Africa is facing its worst drought and food crisis in six decades with more than 13 million people in urgent need of help.

Without an urgent increase in humanitarian aid, 750,000 people are at risk of dying in the next four months. Tragically, many of those affected are children.

CARE Australia – our charity partner for Sydney New Year’s Eve 2011 – is the lead agency providing food and water in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.

Dadaab is the largest refugee camp in the world with 1.8 million people in desperate need and thousands of new refugees arriving every day.

Malnutrition rates are soaring in affected areas due to food and water shortages, poor hygiene and sanitation, and limited access to healthcare.

This terrible tragedy deserves our utmost attention and action. That’s why I have established a Lord Mayor’s East Africa Food Crisis Appeal with all funds raised going directly to CARE’s East Africa Emergency Appeal.

A group of office workers only needs to throw together $91 and it can feed a family for a week. A corporate donation of as little as $450 will truck in enough water to sustain 50 refugees for a month.

The City spends hundreds of millions of dollars to make Sydney one of the leading cities in the world. We are in a fortunate position and we have a responsibility to help others who less fortunate – this is one of the worst humanitarian crises in living memory and we must help.

Clover Moore, MP
Lord Mayor

How you can help

CARE is currently supporting more than 1.5 million people in Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia and Djibouti, including more than 430,000 refugees in Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya, where CARE is the lead agency distributing food and water.

CARE urgently needs your support to continue to assist more people in desperate need.

How to donate:

Online www.care.org.au/sydney

Call 1800 422 422

Or send a cheque to:

CARE Australia

2nd Floor, Open Systems House

218 Northborne Avenue,

Braddon ACT 2612

On the back of the cheque please write: Lord Mayors Appeal

All donors, whether they donate online, by telephone or mail, receive a tax receipt from CARE. All donations over $2 are tax deductible.

For more information about CARE visit www.care.org.au or view the videos below.

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