Bringing Back an Icon: The CARE Package®
The original CARE Package now empowers girls and women worldwide to live, learn and earn
In early March, the CARE Package came out of retirement to honor the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day – only in a new digital format that offered people a fresh, new way to invest in helping others.
Introduced in 1946 to deliver lifesaving food and much-needed supplies to Europeans after World War II, the CARE Package is an icon of American generosity and global leadership.
In the 65 years since the first CARE Package was delivered, CARE's anti-poverty mission has changed. Instead of delivering items in a box, CARE now delivers tools and resources that help empower poor girls and women around the world to create positive change in their lives and their communities.
The CARE Package has changed, too. Like its predecessor, the new CARE Package is changing the way people invest in helping others. Send your own CARE Package of lifesaving and life-changing gifts today!
History of CARE
The original CARE Package
The original CARE Package is a compelling piece of American history — and the new digital version draws on that spirit of compassion and goodwill to again deliver humanitarian aid to many of the world's poorest people. Learn more about the humble beginnings of the CARE Package; the tradition of presidential and celebrity involvement; the staggering number of CARE Packages sent; and the evolution of CARE Package from once being items delivered in a box to now representing the gifts of opportunity, empowerment and hope.
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"I was one of the very first CARE Package recipients"
Listen as Renate Senter recalls her excitement upon recieving a CARE Package in her German school after World War II. In the subsequent months, CARE Packages sent from Buffalo, New York, helped Renate and her family survive hardships in post-WWII Europe.
CARE Today
CARE's work today
CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. We place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives.
In fiscal year 2010, CARE worked in 87 countries around the world, supporting 905 poverty-fighting projects to reach more than 82 million people.
CARE Package Returns
CARE Package returns
With our new digital CARE Package, you will read stories of girls and women who represent the thousands of people CARE works with every day. You'll learn about the issues that shape poor people's lives and interventions that can you can take to make a difference in the lives of so many. For example, your gift can help provide a year of schooling for a girl in Afghanistan or help an expectant mother in Peru safely deliver her child.
Experience our interactive CARE Package today to send customized gifts of opportunity, empowerment and hope to girls and women around the world!
Group CARE Packages
Multiply your giving
You can influence even more positive change for girls and women worldwide by building a group CARE Package that your friends, family and colleages can join to help send girls like Shiba in Afghanistan to school for a year, mothers like Monica in Peru safely deliver their babies and women like Donathe in Burundi turn their savings into earning opportunities. The possibilies are endless – and it all starts with you.
Please build your very own group CARE Package today and then invite everyone you know to join you in sending gifts of opportunity, empowerment and hope.
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