5 Facts About CARE

1. In 2007 CARE announced that by 2009 it would no longer accept certain types of US food aid worth some $45 million a year, arguing that these types of food aid are inefficient and harmful to local markets.

2. In 1975 CARE implemented a multi-year planning system, again allowing programmes to become both broader and deeper in scope.

3. In 1956 CARE distributed food to refugees of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and this would be among the last of CARE's operations in Europe for many years.

4. In 1949 CARE entered the developing world for the first time, launching programs in the Philippines.

5. 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.