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Show CARE Launches Food Crusade . A little girl in Central America Amer-ica who sits quietly in school, eyes glazed and blue spotched arms hanging at her sides; a fisherman in South Vietnam; working desperately to finish a new boat to replace the one lost in his flight from the red-held north; a whole village of people in Iran, left homeless by recent earthquakes; a family in Hong Kong, working against time to build a poultry farm before the rains; these and thousands of others will be fed this year by residents of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah through the CARE Food Crusade. Residents of the three state area sent over 67,000 $1.00 food packages last year, a total of 1,695,000 pounds of food. While food packages make up only of the international CARE program, pro-gram, the packages form the basis ba-sis for all aid, technical, educational edu-cational or medical. CARE Food Crusade packages are used in 20 countries to feed students while they learn to become self supporting. sup-porting. Food Crusade contributions may be sent to CARE, 1631 Glenarm, Denver 2, Colorado. Gift certificates which send food packages overseas in the names of friends and relatives are also available at the CARE office for holiday giving. |