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Marietta & Jim Bala: Together in Life & in Giving
Marietta and Jim Bala give from the heart, and they use
careful analysis to validate their giving decisions. Marietta
started supporting CARE with small donations—donations a
student could make—back in the 1950s when she was first
exposed to CARE packages.
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Why I Chose CARE
When I give readings and keynotes, people sometimes ask me why I decided to donate proceeds from my new book, No Right to Remain Silent: The Tragedy at Virginia Tech, to humanitarian causes, and to CARE in particular. In some ways, it's an easy question to answer. I didn't want to profit from the book, No Right to Remain Silent: The Tragedy at Virginia Tech, to humanitarian causes, and to CARE in particular.
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A Conversation with Long-Time CARE Supporter Jonathan Seagle
When Jonathan discovered that he had a strong interest for helping people living in developing countries, he started doing his research in earnest. During that research he read about CARE and was pleased to note that 90 percent of CARE's expended resources go to poverty-fighting projects. As a result, he has been a loyal CARE donor since 1971when he moved to San Francisco, California.
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"A Stranger Is Only a Friend I Have Yet to Meet"
In 2007 CARE lost a great friend and long time supporter. In order to understand the man, it is important to know a little about the journey he took during his life. Philip Osborne was born December 23, 1929 in East Orange, NJ on his mother's 22nd birthday. In 1941, the family moved to Atlanta. Phil graduated from Darlington School in Rome, GA in 1948 and went on to receive...
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A Tribute to Margaret Danzig
There are people who live. And then there are people, like Margaret Roth Danzig, who teach others how to live. Even after her death, Margaret – who exuded compassion and integrity – inspires people to live as purely and selflessly as she did. In her son David's words, "She was the moral compass against which her friends and family measured themselves." Margaret was born in a small town...
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Flight from Berlin: The Story of Henry Wirth
Anyone who has met Henry Wirth would describe him as nothing less than charming and lovable.Indeed, even the waiter at the restaurant where Henry meets me and my colleague for lunch cannot help but smile through his noon hour stress at the mere mention of Henry's name. One gets the sense that Henry makes friends everywhere he goes. At 73 years old, he is a successful businessman...
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Growing Up in War-Torn Germany
What was it like to live in Germany during World War II? What was it like to receive a CARE package after the war ended? Helga Arndt, a planned giving donor, shares her experience. I was born in 1939 in Germany - the year Hitler started the biggest war of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, we lived in the most industrious part of Germany - the Ruhr Valley, known for an abundance of coal mines...
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Albert Van Rennes: A Living Legacy
Dr. Albert "Van" Van Rennes has been a CARE supporter for the past two decades, but his connection goes back to the very early years of CARE. Van was born in 1920 in Akron, OH to Dutch parents. His father had immigrated to the to the United States in 1903 and his mother in 1916, and they were married not long after. Van's father was working as an engineer when the Depression...
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Helen Linehan, Pioneer
On April 18, 2007 a gift came to CARE's office from Lapeer, Michigan attorneys representing the estate of Helen Linehan. Attached to the paperwork was a note from her niece, Carol Arena, which read "My Aunt Helen B. Linehan spent time in Africa in the 1980's and became concerned with the lack of clean water available for the children. She is leaving what she can as a bequest to CARE for the purpose of...
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The Gift of Kindness
As one whom the CARE package helped, I'm happy to share with you a bit of my story. I was drafted to the German army when I was 17, and at 18 I fell into American captivity after my tank had been blown up. After 16 weeks...
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Cherrys Create Guatemala School in Daughter's Memory
Most of us are content with the knowledge that we can make a difference in our lifetime. We consider ourselves fortunate if we are truly able to positively alter the course of even a few people who cross our paths. How many of us, however, through the reach of one life, can leave behind a gift that benefits future generations? Most of us do not ordinarily witness the power of one to help others...
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A Living Legacy
To this day, I do not eat peanut butter on bread. No, peanut butter has to be licked from the tip of a spoon, every small amount savored and swallowed slowly to make the taste linger on. Then the jar is to be closed again and not used too often, so that the precious contents last just a bit longer. When my family received a CARE Package shortly after the war, it contained a jar of peanut butter
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How I Was Impacted by World War II
I have been impacted by war in many ways. You might even say that I am a product of war; war led my mother to my father. My father was a doctor in Le Havre, France. During World War I he served as a medic on the front lines. When America joined forces with the French and British, my mother...
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Colonel Andrew J. Mungenast—The Flying Philanthropist
Col. Andrew J. Mungenast has raised 14 children, earned three college degrees and battled three forms of cancer, yet at age 81 he is still flying high—literally. Col. Mungenast is an active member of the U.F.O.s, United Flying Octogenarians. Through the years, Col. Mungenast as flown more than 140 different...
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Milton Field—The Legacy of a Lifetime
The impact each of us makes every day in the lives of others carries a legacy all its own. We teach our families, our friends and even strangers the beauty of giving – of ourselves, of our time and of our financial resources. The unspoken legacy of Milton Field surprised even those closest to him. Milton was an extraordinary...
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CARE Trip: Great Learning for Nigel Renton
Nigel Renton has been a CARE supporter since 1997. He recently participated in a CARE donor trip to El Salvador. Prior to this, Mr. Renton says he did not know a great deal about the extensive variety of CARE's programs, or the fact that CARE has programs in more than 70 countries. Mr. Renton found that visiting program...
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CARE Corps, July 2003—Peru
When I received the flyer in the mail with the title CARE Corps, Peru, I felt immediately that this was something for me! As a former French teacher and current Spanish teacher, I had been interested in going to South America for several years. Peru and Bolivia had been two countries at the top of my list, and this looked like the perfect...
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Asya's Thirst for Education
Asya Ali Mzee is a 15-year-old girl who is currently studying at Langoni Primary School, Unguja Island (Zanzibar) in Tanzania. For the first 14 years of her life, she was denied a basic education by her father, a typically traditional man who believed women should be raised to become good wives and housekeepers.
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Kids-Initiated Health Project Impresses CARE Donors in El Salvador
When CARE donors Mary Helen Wegmann and Rosemary Wharton accompanied me on a tour of CARE's work in El Salvador, the country was just recovering from two devastating earthquakes.
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