This is more cost-effective and allows us to serve more people in need. Although we care greatly about the needs of people in the United States, we have chosen to focus our work overseas. There are many charitable organizations that work to help the poor in the United States. Programs such as food stamps, welfare and Social Security, as well as voluntary soup kitchens and food pantries are available to the poor in this country. CARE chooses to work overseas because in the developing world, there is often no such help available.
CARE does coordinate donor trips to some of our project sites.
To learn about possible trips in the near future, speak to the major gifts officer in the CARE USA regional office nearest you. To see program descriptions of all of CARE's work around the globe, visit our web site at CARE Programs section . PHLS is the Partnership and Household Livelihood Security unit. It is one of six technical units that make up PAD, the Program Analysis and Development group. The other PAD units are Health and Population, Economic Development, Girls' and Basic Education, Grants and Contracts and the Management Technology Unit.