{"value"=>"<p>In 1969, CARE added a nutritionist to its Program Department staff to work with William Langdon in assessing and improving P. L. 480's effectiveness in feeding programs. In conjunction with mission personnel and host countries' ministries of education and social welfare, the nutritionist advised mission personnel on the development and implementation of feeding programs, nutritional education curricula, and projects to increase local food production.</p> <p>CARE's first nutritionist (later called the nutrition advisor) was Margot Higgins; she was succeeded by Mary Ann Anderson in 1973. Merlyn Vemury held that position from 1976 to 1982, when Ruth Ann Horner succeeded her. Most of the items in Boxes 167-186 are from 1969 on, although there are a few earlier reports and related items.</p> <p>During the 1960s and 1970s, grants from the Agency for International Development provided much of the funding for CARE's large-scale nutrition projects, in particular a study of supplementary feeding programs for preschool children in Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, India, and Pakistan, ca. 1974-1977.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>The files in Boxes 169 and 170 contain surveys, progress reports, and working papers from that study. Box 171 holds the reports from another A. I. D. - funded project, circa 1978-1981, a study on the beliefs and practices that affected food habits in Bangladesh, Colombia, Guatemala, Jordan, Peru, and Tunisia.</p> <p>Other materials include files on nutrition education in various regions and countries (Box 174), the manuals, storyboards, and comic books used to teach about nutrition (Box 175. See also the oversized posters and related items in Series 9, Boxes 1166 and 1167), and files on other institutions and programs, such as Catholic Relief Services and Project Concern (Box 176).</p> <p>Boxes 177-186, the nutritionists' country files, primarily contain correspondence between the nutritionist and mission staff members concerning such matters as regional nutrition planning workshops, A. I. D. projects, and the testing of food supplements.</p>"}