Life for women in the Central African Republic can be extremely hard. Mercy Corps has been working with women to educate them about their rights and to give them access to financial services. To mark International Women's Day we share some of their stories
Life for women in the Central African Republic (CAR) can be tough. A little known nation in the heart of Africa, tucked between Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Chad, CAR has been described as a "failed state in permanent crisis" and is one of the poorest and least developed in the world. Decades of instability have undermined the economy, and with little state infrastructure, more than two-thirds of the population live on less than 65p per day. Average life expectancy for women is 43
Photograph: Jenny Vaughan/Mercy Corps
The Guardian
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