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- CARE has had programs in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - including the province of Kosovo - since January 1994. Program activities included distributing food, fuel, winter relief items such as clothing and blankets, mobile medical assistance, shelter and mine-awareness training.
- As a result of the conflict in Kosovo that escalated in March 1999, more than 1 million people poured over the borders of Albania and Macedonia. CARE launched an immediate emergency response to help those fleeing Kosovo's borders, eventually managing eight refugee camps in Albania and Macedonia which provided emergency shelter, food and medical care to more than 120,000 refugees.
- CARE and its partners supplied refugees in these camps with food, shelter, cooking material, health care, water and sanitation, education assistance and school supplies for the younger children and mother and child services. CARE also worked to identify and reunite separated families, with a special focus on unaccompanied children, the elderly and handicapped. In addition, CARE helped provide trauma counseling and land mine awareness training.
- When refugees began to return to Kosovo, CARE established four waystations - full-service rest stops for refugees. Through these stations, CARE provided a safe area for refugees to pull off the road, receive hot food and clean water, use sanitary facilities and receive basic medical attention. An estimated 90,000 refugees used the services at these way stations.
- Since June 15, over 810,000 refugees have returned to Kosovo from neighboring Albania and Macedonia and other countries. More than 20,000 refugees remain in Macedonia and 4,030 refugees remain in Albania.
- CARE re-entered Kosovo three days after NATO troops and began providing emergency relief.
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