CARE Luxembourg
Welcome to CARE Luxembourg’s English mini-website. Hereafter we have outlined all essential information about CARE and our humanitarian work. If this page doesn’t provide the answers to your questions, please check out our French main-page or contact our team directly.
We will be happy to answer all your questions by phone and email and we’re ready to assist you when it comes to choosing or developing your personal social or philanthropic endeavour.
The CARE – Package: An Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary Box
After World War II, the original CARE-Package harnessed the power of generosity in a box. 100 million CARE packages of food, clothing or tools were delivered to vulnerable families in Europe. In Luxembourg too, numerous CARE-Packages were distributed to orphanages, children's homes and poor families.
80 years later, the CARE Package has evolved. Today, CARE powers change in new, lasting ways for the people who need it most.
CARE today
Today, CARE is a global network and a leading relief organization. In 2023, CARE worked in 109 countries around the world, implementing 1.671 poverty-fighting development and humanitarian aid projects, to reach more than 166 million people directly.
In the great humanitarian tragedies of our time, wars, natural disasters, refugee crises, CARE is one of the first aid organizations on the ground. CARE continues to support people, even when the media turn their attention towards new events. Our colleagues stay with the most vulnerable families and communities to strengthen them in the long term and to better prepare them for future crises.
CARE Luxembourg
Our CARE-Projects funded by the Luxembourgish Government and the generous support of our private donors, companies, associations, service clubs, municipalities and foundations focus on rapid relief in sudden onset disasters, support for most vulnerable groups in complex emergencies, conflicts and refugee crises and long term support for the poorest groups in extremely remote areas!
In all our projects we reach out to pregnant women, young mothers, new-borns and young children to make sure they have access to the medical support and quality nutrition they need to survive and to recover. We also aim to make sure that they can rely on a strong family and community.
In 2022, the Luxembourgish CARE organization alone reached 293.004 people in need.
Our donors and partners can rightly be proud of that!
FirstCARE: Support mothers and newborns in desperate need
During the first 1,000 days of a child's life, the brain develops rapidly. During this critical period, malnutrition and severe psychological stress can have lifelong consequences for children. CARE Luxembourg is dedicated to the protection of pregnant women, newborns and their mothers.
Our CARE helpers empower mothers so that they can feed their children well in the long term. In our long-term projects in Niger, Myanmar and Laos, we are expanding access to healthcare for pregnant women, we train midwives and help mothers to protect their children from hunger from the first day of their pregnancy. In 2019, this help from Luxembourg reached 39,716 pregnant women, young mothers and newborns in need.
Your support directly contributes to the success of these projects. If you wish to help, please find below different examples of donations that can significantly improve people's lives.
You can also become a regular donor. Our program Donateur de Coeur protects and defends girls' rights, especially during armed conflicts or in remote areas. Girls are the first victims during disasters. Please go to our dedicated page Donateur de Coeur - English to learn more about the protection of girls' rights, and the ways in which you can help.
Thank you very much!
This is how your donation helps
Your donation turns into concrete action! Your support directly contributes to helping thousands of people. CARE Luxembourg focuses particularly on supporting maternal health and defending girls' rights.
With only € 40, we can equip a midwife with a first-aid kit and with € 200 we can provide psychological care for 5 traumatized refugee children in our projects.
Donations can be made on our page Faire un Don.
Undecided?
We will be glad to assist you in identifying the project you care about most. Please feel free to call us: +352 26 20 30 61.
30 Euro
can contribute to, for example, the provision of 30 packets of fortified nutrition per month to malnourished newborns and mothers.
100 Euro
can contribute to, for example, to the traineeship of medical volunteers in villages who can then take into accounts the specific needs of young girls, which are usually neglected.
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200 Euro
can contribute to, for example, the provision of a big CARE package to a family who has lost everything, containing food, hygiene items, construction tools to build a shelter and other necessary items.
Trust and transparency: our guiding principle
Year after year, CARE Luxembourg makes a great effort to ensure that your donations make a great and effective difference in our humanitarian work. At the same time, it is very important to us to confirm and demonstrate this to you in a transparent manner.
For this purpose, we work intensely with the Luxembourgish organisation "Don en Confiance a.s.b.l." (donation in trust). Additionally, the regular and independent oversight of our organisation by recognized auditors and the internal and external expenditure controls of our projects also ensure that all actors who come in contact with our Luxembourgish aid are thoroughly reviewed.
It is your help!
Each donation is an individual decision. It makes no difference whether you support CARE with a single or a regular donation, or whether you donate 5 euros or 5,000 euros. You have the right to know exactly what is happening with your money. We are happy to help you find your personal project.
Time and again we are contacted by donors who want to celebrate their birthday, their retirement, the birth of their child or the victory against a terrible disease. We also gladly help families honour the loss of a beloved person through a CARE donation appeal.
Do you have questions or want to implement your personal project? We are happy to assist you! It is your help.
CARE and companies
More information about our successful partnerships can be found here (in French, please contact us for English information)
Your personal action for CARE
More information on the small and big celebrations of life which you can combine with an action for CARE (in French, please contact us for English information)
Your legacy and CARE
We all can leave a positive footprint on this earth: Learn more about how, your legacy can do good and save lives for generations to come. (in French, please contact us for English information)
Please contact Anne Molitor for general questions and Frederic Haupert to obtain privately information about your project :
SOME GOOD REASONS TO SUPPORT CARE
- With your donation, you support our global work to overcome poverty and hardship.
- CARE has over 80 years of experience in emergency and development cooperation.
- CARE helps regardless of political views, religious beliefs or ethnic backgrounds.
- CARE’s work is transparent, constantly monitored and audited.
- CARE is a member of Don en Confiance www.donenconfiance.lu
- CARE has consultative status 1 at the United Nations and lobbies in favour of ill, oppressed and disadvantaged people
- CARE provides long-term support to the poorest of the poor so that they can help themselves.
- Your donation is tax deductible. We are pleased to issue you a donation receipt. Take a look at the list of organisations accredited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg: (https://cooperation.gouvernement.lu/fr/partenaires/ong-partenaires.html)
- CARE is a strategic partner of the Luxembourg government to implement humanitarian relief in conflicts, refugee crises and natural disasters.
- The good and trust-based cooperation between the Luxembourg Government and CARE is also ensured through a framework contract in the field of development cooperation.
- You can amend or end your regular donation at any time.
- Uncommitted donations ("where it is most needed") help us keep administrative costs low and respond faster and more flexibly in the event of a disaster.
- This website and your personal data are secure and encrypted. Even with an online donation with credit card, your bank details are not recorded or stored by CARE.
- CARE will only save the amount of your donation and your address to send you a “thank you”-letter relevant for tax return and to keep you informed about CARE's work. You can view, change and delete your data at any time.
In 2023, 91 cents of each euro went directly to our emergency relief and our development aid projects.
