CARE International
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| legal form | Aid organization |
| founding | November 27, 1945 |
| Seat | Geneva |
| motto | Defending Dignity. Fighting Poverty |
| main emphasis | Hunger, poverty and oppression |
| method | Emergency aid and development cooperation |
| Action space | worldwide |
| Chair | Louise Fréchette |
| Managing directors | Caroline Kende-Robb (General Secretary) |
| sales | € 725.640 million (2016) |
| Employees | 11,300 |
| Website | www.care-international.org |
CARE International ( " C ooperative for A ssistance and R elief e very where" ) is one of today with numerous country and regional offices in the field to the large private relief organizations . In Germany and Austria, the non-governmental organization is known for the CARE parcels sent out in the post-war period .
Hundreds of aid programs are now mostly managed by local CARE employees in around 94 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.
Goals and Activities
The focus of the work is global poverty reduction. The organization works on the principle of helping people to help themselves , trying to secure livelihoods, developing economic activities and promoting civil society forces. CARE stands up against social injustice and discrimination and for global responsibility and tries to influence political decision-makers. Together with project partners, CARE also provides emergency aid in crisis areas.
In order to avoid that aid measures are “bypassed” the actual needs of the people, CARE involves its project participants and local partners in the planning and implementation of the programs right from the start. Most of the around 15,000 employees are recruited for work in their home countries.
CARE projects, which according to the organization benefit more than 80 million people each year, are financially supported by numerous governments as well as by the United Nations, the World Bank and the EU. The organization was active in 94 countries with 1,044 projects in 2016.
history
When millions of people in the ruins of the devastated cities were left without shelter, food, clothing and medicine in the Second World War , the news broke the head of the War Aid Inspectorate for the American President, Arthur C. Ringland, and Lincoln Clark , who worked at UNRRA to encourage the delivery of aid packages to Europeans. Ringland had been the head of the services of the American Relief Administration (ARA) in Constantinople after the First World War and was thinking of an action similar to the provision of ARA food parcels at the time . The director of the American Federation of Cooperatives, Wallace J. Campbell said the idea, and he brought it to paths that 22 US charities on 27. November 1945 in Washington, the private relief organization CARE ( Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe ) founded, to be able to coordinate relief efforts for Europe. The Quakers , the Mennonites , the Church of the Brethren , the Salvation Army and the trade unions participated in the founding of CARE . Elmer G. Burland, who had already introduced the system of “dollar packages” in Austria and adapted it to Russian conditions in 1924, was there when it was founded. In those days, as in 1945, William N. Haskell was given the role of executive director . The US Army also took part and made the first food deliveries from their depots, initially to France. In 1946, the US government approved aid supplies to Germany, mostly sent to relatives by US citizens. Almost ten million CARE parcels with food, clothes or tools reached Germany, Austria and other European countries between 1946 and 1960. The standard CARE package contained food (canned meat, cereals, sugar, canned fruit and vegetables, cocoa and coffee) for 30 meals as well as cigarettes. The parcels were of particular importance during the Berlin blockade .
The English term Care ("Sorge", "Fürsorge", "Obhut", "Pflege") was formed as an acronym from the first letters of Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe . In 1949, CARE expanded its programs to include developing countries and in 1952 changed the name to “Cooperative for American Relief to Everywhere” while retaining the acronym . On August 29, 1980 , CARE Germany was founded as the third country organization after the USA and Canada . In 1990, CARE expanded its activities to Eastern Europe, after the government had banned work there in the previous decades. In 1994 the meaning of the acronym was changed again, this time to "Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere" .
CARE International
In 1982 the independently working national CARE organizations merged under the name CARE International. The General Secretariat, based in Geneva, now coordinates the work of fourteen member organizations in the United States (founded in 1945), Canada (1946), Germany (1980), Norway (1980), France (1983), Great Britain (1985), Austria (1986), Australia (1987), Japan (1987), Denmark (1988), the Netherlands (2001), Thailand (2003), India (2011) and Peru (2015).
In November 2004, Margaret Hassan , the head of the CARE office in Iraq, was kidnapped and murdered in Baghdad.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual Report 2016 ( English )
- ↑ a b Manfred Sack : It began as a "small experiment" , Die Zeit, July 8, 1960
- ↑ a b Bertrand M. Patenaude: The Big Show in Bololand. The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921 , Stanford University Press, Stanford 2002, p. 740
- ^ Zeit-Online: CARE for Germany
