Medico spearheaded a number of programs in the Congo aimed at developing health care programs to train village health care officials. In 1973. CARE was directly responsible for providing relief to refugees in South Vietnam. selfhelp reconstruction programs to refugees in India and Bangladesh. and immediate and simultaneous assistance to disaster victims in 10 impoverished nations. Two years later. CARE sponsored its "empty plate" campaign in which nourished persons ate less and sent money to CARE in an effort to stop world hunger. In recent years. CAREs members have worked in Somalia on contract with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and the Government of Somalia to feed 700.000 refugees and expand African drought assistance programs throughout the Sahel region. CARE has also worked in Peru to provide health. construction. and reforestation assistance to the residents of local shantytowns. In 1985. in commemoration of the 40year anniversary of the incorporation of CARE. it received the Presidential World Without Hunger Award in recognition of the outstanding role CARE has played in Third World relief and development assistance.
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