name: CARE International
text: CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. They place special focus on working alongside poor women as they 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.
  
  CARE is one of the world's largest private humanitarian organizations. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, they are part of an international confederation of 11 member organizations.
  
  The scope of their mission has changed considerably since our founding in 1945, when 22 American organizations came together to send â€˜CARE Packagesâ€™ to survivors of World War II. Many Americans, including President Harry S. Truman contributed to the effort.  On May 11, 1946, the first 20,000 packages reached the battered port of Le Havre, France. Some 100 million more CARE Packages reached people in need during the next two decades, first in Europe and later in Asia and other parts of the developing world.
  
  In the 1950s, they expanded into emerging nations and used U.S. surplus food to feed the hungry. In the 1960s, they pioneered primary health care programs. In the 1970s, CARE responded to massive famines in Africa with both emergency relief and long-term agro-forestry projects, integrating environmentally sound tree - and land - management practices with farming programs.
  
  Today, they have a staff of around 12,000.
  
  They have always been known by the acronym "CARE," but the meaning behind the letters has changed as their mission has broadened. At foundation in 1945, CARE stood for "Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe." Today, with projects in more than 60 countries around the world, CARE stands for "Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, Inc."
  
  http://www.care.org/