Joe Biden, Amanda Gorman and Whoopi Goldberg Celebrate CARE’s 75th Anniversary at Virtual Special Variety 3 hrs ago
As a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty, CARE reaches 70 million people in 100 countries around the world. However, it recently passed a major milestone right here in the United States.
“I’m proud to announce that as of today, CARE has crossed the 6 million mark, delivering the 6 millionth CARE package right here in the U.S.,” President Joe Biden said during the organization’s 75th anniversary event.
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“Each package provided that demonstrates our greatness as a nation is matched by our fundamental goodness as a people people whose generosity help feed the hungry, heal the sick and lift up people and communities all around the world,” Biden noted. “This is truly a remarkable moment coming from a truly remarkable organization. Let’s remember. The job isn’t over.”
May 12, 2021
Hungarian refugees crowd around a hand truck full of CARE food packages in the courtyard of a former Austrian orphanage near Vienna that in 1946 served as a reception camp for 600 Hungarian refugees. Each package contained 22 pounds of U.S. government surplus food. (Photo by Anja Engelke/CARE)
Not many US foreign aid programs are so popular they become household names or evolve into expressions used in everyday speech.
One that did was the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe (CARE). Established in 1945 to send food relief to starving Europeans in the aftermath of World War II, the original “CARE Package” weighed 20 pounds and consisted of canned staples such as beef and luncheon meat, as well as margarine, honey, raisins, chocolate, powdered milk and sugar.
Today, the “care package” is a household term, describing perhaps a box of Mom’s cookies. But 75 years ago, the original CARE packages, boxes of basic foodstuffs and other essentials, arrived in France, sent by Americans to a devastated and demoralized Europe. The packages carried mostly food, but for many Europeans they brought forms of sustenance the war had severely depleted: optimism, and a renewed faith in humanity.
“We were very hungry, the country was destroyed, so the 30 or so packages we received in my very large family were what kept us going,” says Peter Molt, a German historian who was a teenager in Stuttgart when packages marked “USA” arrived.
Rolling Stone Menu Chrissie Hynde Announces Bob Dylan Covers Album
Quarantine album recorded with Pretenders bandmate James Walbourne will be released with a behind-the-scenes television special
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Chrissie Hynde will be releasing an album of Bob Dylan covers, the Pretenders singer announced on Monday. The LP, titled
Standing in the Doorway: Chrissie Hynde Sings Bob Dylan, will be out on May 21st via BMG.
In a statement, Hynde explains that she recorded the album during the Covid-19 lockdown with her Pretenders bandmate James Walbourne.
“A few weeks into lockdown last year, James sent me the new Dylan track ‘Murder Most Foul.’ Listening to that song completely changed everything for me,” Hynde says, echoing what she told