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for American Remittances to Europe[1]) is a major international humanitarian

agencies delivering emergency relief and long-term international development projects. Founded in 1945, CARE is nonsectarian , impartial, and non governmental . It is one of the largest and oldest humanitarian aid organizations focused on fighting global poverty. In 2016, CARE reported working in 94 countries, supporting 962 poverty-fighting projects and humanitarian aid projects, and reaching over 80 million people and 256 million people indirectly.

preventing and alleviating human suffering wherever it may be found
protecting

life and health and ensuring respect for the human being
Humanitarian Response
Health and the Right to a Life Free from Violence
Security and Resilience to Climate Change.
Food and Nutrition.

were in fact surplus ” ten-in-one ” US army rations packs

(designed to contain a day's meals for ten people). In early 1946 CARE purchased 2.8 million of these warehoused rations packs, originally intended for the invasion of japan, and began advertising in America. On May 11, 1946, six months after the agency's incorporation, the first CARE Packages were delivered in Le havre , France .These packages contained staples such as canned meats, powdered milk, dried fruits, and fats along with a few comfort items such as chocolates , coffee, and cigarettes. (Several on the CARE Board of directors wished to remove the cigarettes, but it was deemed impractical to open and reseal 2.8 million boxes.)1946 also marked CARE's first expansion out of the US with the establishment of an office in Canada.

supply of "Ten-in-One" ration packs had been exhausted and CARE

began assembling its own packages. These new packages were designed with the help of a nutritionist. They did not include cigarettes and were tailored somewhat by destination: Kosher packages were developed, and for example packages for the United Kingdom included tea rather than coffee, and packages for Italy included pasta. By 1949 CARE offered and shipped more than twelve different packages.

National Members, coordinated by the CARE International Secretariat. The Secretariat

is based in Geneva , Switzerland , with offices in New york and in Brussels in order to liaise with the United nation and the European institutions respectively.Each CARE National Member is an autonomous non-governmental organization registered in the country, and each Member runs programs, fundraising, and communications activities both in its own country and in developing countries where CARE operates. There are fourteen National Members.

CARE also delivers humanitarian and/or development programmes, for example, CARE

Egypt, CARE India, CARE Peru. The full list of CARE International members, candidates and affiliates is: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Sri Lanka, Thailand, UK, USA.