CARE also provides health services with funding to offer increased access to family planning, boost immunization rates, and improve treatment of childhood illnesses and diseases. Through its programs in small enterprise activity development, CARE extends loans to individuals and community groups, and organizes training in management, marketing, and other business related subjects. To upgrade the infrastructure of countries that it serves, CARE constructs public buildings, roads, and bridges. Agriculture and natural resources projects deal with areas ranging from gardening, irrigation, and storage of crops to soil conservation, tree planting, and ecotourism. In 1998, CARE had ongoing assistance programs in 29 countries.
CARE also helps in the subsidizing of removal of landmines.
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