CARE international ranks today with numerous land and regional offices locally among the large private relief organizations. In Germany and Austria the Nichtregierungsorganisation (NGO) is by in the post-war period dispatched "CARE packages "well-known.

Hundreds of aid programmes are cared for predominantly today by native CARE coworkers in approximately 70 countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America, approaching and the middle east as well as Europe.

Goals and activities

In the center of the work the global poverty reduction is located. CARE pursues the goals the self-help forces to strengthen to secure bases of existence to develop economic activities and promote civilian-social forces. CARE occurs against social unfairness and discrimination for global responsibility and tries political decision makers to affect. Together with project partners CARE carries out also help in need in crisis areas.

In order to avoid that remedial measures at the actual needs of humans become by-planned "", it merges CARE its project participants and local partner from the outset in planning and execution of the programs. The largest part of the 10,000 coworkers is enlisted in the respective homelands to the employment.

Projects of CARE, which come to data of the organization per year 30 million humans to property, become financial by numerous governments as well as by the United Nations, which supports World Bank and the European Union. The organization is at present (2006) active in 70 countries.

History

When in the Second World War millions of humans in the ruins of the destroyed cities without shelter, food, clothes and medicines were, 22 US-American welfare organisations created the private relief organization CARE, "Cooperative for American Remittances ton of Europe ", on 27 November 1945 in Washington in order to be able to coordinate relief work for Europe in Washington. Initiator of this group was Lincoln Clark. Also the US army took part and placed from its depots the first food supplies, first to France. At the end of February 1946 approved the US Government auxiliary supplies to Germany, that was usually sent by US citizens to relatives. Nearly ten million CARE packages with food, clothes or tools reached 1946 and 1960 Germany and other European states between. The standard CARE package contained food (Fleischkonserven, grain, sugar, preserved fruit and vegetable, Kaokao and coffee) for 30 meals as well as cigarettes. The packages got special meaning during the Berlin blockade.

1949 expanded CARE its programs on developing countries and changed according to 1952 the meaning of the acronym CARE in "Cooperative for American relief ton of Everywhere ". On 29 August 1980 as the third national organization after in the USA and Canada the CARE Germany one based. 1990 expanded CARE its actions also to Eastern Europe, after the work became in the decades before forbidden by the governments been war.1994 there the meaning of the acronym a further mark changed, this time in "Cooperative for Assistance and relief Everywhere ".

CARE international

the independently working national CARE organizations under the designation CARE international united 1982. In the meantime Brussels Generalsekretariat the work of twelve member organizations in the United States (based 1945), Canada (1946), Germany (1980), Norway (1980), France (1983), Great Britain (1985), Austria (1986), Australia (1987), Japan (1987), Denmark (1988), the Netherlands (2001) and Thailand coordinates (2003).

In November 2004 became Margaret Hassan, which kidnaps and murdered chief of the CARE office in the Iraq, in Bagdad.

Related links

• CARE internationally Generalsekretariat
• common portal of the CARE Mitgliedsorganisationen
• CARE internationally Germany
• Radio contribution in the Deutschlandfunk to the history of CARE
• http://www.care.at/">

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