![]() ![]() CARE’s environmental and health programming units receive multiple grants from USAID and significantly expand.Īlso in 1991, CARE launches a micro-savings project in rural Niger that would become known as Village Savings & Loan Associations. CARE temporarily revives the CARE Package, distributing 600,000 of them to help stave off hunger during the winter food shortage in the crumbling Soviet Union. In 1991, major relief operations continue in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War. CARE’s Population Unit is formed (family planning) and small business development programs grow worldwide. The organization also launches its first AIDS education program in Rwanda and Kenya and marks its return to Afghanistan after a decade of guerrilla war.ĬARE’s environmental and food distribution work continue, and immunizations reach half a million people as CARE contributes to a decade of unprecedented success in immunization and reducing infant mortality. That same year, CARE airlifts 50,000 CARE Packages in its first operation in the Soviet Union. In 1988, CARE becomes the first western aid agency to work in China, helping farmers with poultry and livestock management. ![]() In 1987, Fortune Magazine names CARE “Best Managed Charity.” CARE’s management structure takes shape with regional management units and formal sector work. Despite this, CARE continues its work with drought victims, helping them to plant trees and conserve soil. Korean War relief begins.įamine relief in Africa continues throughout 1986-7, but “donor fatigue” sets in and cash donations drop. Plows and farm tool packages are developed marking the start of self-help agricultural projects. In 1950, CARE participates in famine relief in Yugoslavia, opens missions in Pakistan and India. Seed programs begin and celebrity endorsements continue with Marlene Dietrich, Gregory Peck and others. Missions expand to Korea, the Philippines and Israel.ĬARE Packages now include soap, textiles and toys. In 1948, with Soviet troops surrounding Berlin, CARE airlifted 200,000 CARE Packages to hungry Berliners, around 60 percent of all private aid to the city. By year’s end, CARE has operations in 10 European nations.ĬARE develops other kinds of CARE Packages, including wool and baby food, creates a distribution system, regional sales offices and steps up promotion featuring actor Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. President Harry Truman, Herbert Hoover and Dwight Eisenhower ask Americans to support CARE. As far as we know, the only reward Alice Clark ever received was a sincere kiss from Linc.”Īfter just six months, CARE delivers the first CARE Packages to the port city of Le Havre, France. ‘You could use the word remittances and name the organization the “Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe.” The initials would give you a word that has a meaning by itself – CARE.’ That is how CARE was named. Lincoln explained the plan we had developed … ‘Now we’re talking,’ Alice said. ![]() How about distribution? How are you going to get the packages to the people who need them?’ she asked. ‘But the letters C-A-E don’t spell anything. ‘… your three key words are Cooperative, American, and Europe,’ Alice told him. Because, he replied, he was trying to think of an organizational name whose initials would make up a word expressing the idea of food relief. Alice Clark looked up from her ironing to ask why her husband was pacing the floor. “The name was created one evening in the fall of 1945 in the family room of Lincoln Clark’s home in College Park, MD. These rations become the world’s first CARE Packages® and an American symbol is born. After negotiation with multiple government agencies, CARE takes possession of 2.8 million “10-in-1” military food rations. The charities agree and on November 27, they incorporate the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe (CARE). Lincoln Clark approach 22 American charities to propose a non-profit corporation to funnel food packages from Americans to loved ones in Europe. At the end of World War II, with much of the world in ruins, Arthur Ringland and Dr. ![]()
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