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Show Remember True Holiday Spirit available materials from the people being helped. Your contribution con-tribution may be sent to: CARE, 660 First Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016 During this holiday season I the meaning of giving gifts is too often lost in our efforts to buy bigger and better or more unusual presents. Almost every large store featues novelty items "for the man or woman who has everything." But for impoverished impove-rished people in developing nations na-tions who have so little, the meaning of a simple gift has not been lost, especially if the gift helps pull them out of poverty. Your gift to CARE goes a long - way toward doing just that. In the poorest rural areas of developing nations food is the urgent basic need and in this year's Holiday Food Crusade ' CARE hopes to raise $6,500,000 to help provide nourishing supplemental sup-plemental feeding to 25 million people, mostly children. Children and adults who are weak and disease-prone from malnutrition are unable to learn and apply skills to better their lives. And so, in addition to providing food, your dollars go directly into CARE projects which teach nutrition and soil conservation methods to enable needy people to grow more food. With CARE material and guidance, they build schools to educate their children, construct sanitary water systems and health centers to combat the multiple diseases which plague them, and build roads and small businesses to bring them into the mainstream of economic development. CARE produces results. The people learn and teach others in their country. CARE conducts feeding and self-help development develop-ment programs in 36 developing nations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. MEDICO, the medical arm of CARE, offers training for physicians, physi-cians, nurses and other health care personnel in several of the countries where the agency operates. For each dollar donated by the public last year CARE provided pro-vided almost $10 in aid. This is because CARE combines thrifty management with U.S. Food-For-Peace commodities, host government contributions and donations of labor, land and |