CARE (relief agency)

Chairman Ralph Martens Secretary Robert Glasser

CARE International ( "Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere" ) is now one of numerous country and regional field offices to the large private organizations. In Germany and Austria the non-governmental organization is known by those consigned in the postwar period CARE packages.

Hundreds of utilities are now cared for mainly by local CARE staff in about 70 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.

Objectives and Activities

The focus of the work is the global poverty reduction. Here, CARE works on the principle of helping people help themselves, trying to secure livelihoods, to develop economic activities and promote civil society forces. CARE enters against social injustice and discrimination and for global responsibility and attempts to influence policy-makers. Together with project partners CARE also provides emergency relief in crisis areas.

To avoid that assistance to the actual needs of the people are " over planned ", CARE binds its project participants and local partners from the outset in the planning and implementation of programs. The majority of the approximately 15,000 employees is recruited in their home countries for use.

Projects of CARE, the 122 million people benefit, according to the organization per year, are supported financially by many governments as well as by the United Nations, the World Bank and the EU. The organization was active in 2011 in 84 countries.

History

As in World War II were millions of people in the ruins of the destroyed cities without shelter, food, clothing and medicine, founded 22 American charities on November 27, 1945 in Washington, the private humanitarian organization CARE, "Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe", to coordinate relief operations for Europe can. Initiator of this association was Lincoln Clark. Even the U.S. Army participated and exhibited their accounts the first food supplies, first to France. End of February 1946, the U.S. government approved aid shipments to Germany, which was mostly sent to relatives of U.S. citizens. Almost ten million care packages with food, clothing or tools arrived 1946-1960 Germany, Austria and other European countries. The standard CARE package contained food ( canned meat, grain, sugar, canned fruits and vegetables, cocoa and coffee ) for 30 meals and cigarettes. Of particular importance were the packets during the Berlin Blockade.

The English term care ( German concern, care, care, care) was formed as an acronym of the first letters of Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe. 1949 CARE expanded its programs to developing countries from 1952 and changed the name while retaining the acronym in "Cooperative for American Relief to Everywhere". On 29 August, was founded in 1980 as the third national organization to USA and Canada CARE Germany. 1990 CARE expanded its activities to Eastern Europe from after the work had been there previously banned in the decades by governments. 1994, the importance of the acronym was changed once again, this time in "Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere".

CARE International

1982, the independently operating national CARE organizations joined together under the name of CARE International. Meanwhile, coordinated by the General Secretariat, which is based in Geneva, the work of twelve member organizations in the United States ( founded in 1945 ), Canada ( 1946), Germany (1980 ), Norway (1980 ), France ( 1983), UK ( 1985), Austria (1986 ), Australia (1987 ), Japan (1987 ), Denmark (1988 ), the Netherlands (2001) and Thailand ( 2003).

In November 2004, Margaret Hassan, director of CARE's offices in Iraq, was kidnapped and murdered in Baghdad.