{"value"=>"<p>A financial boost came from Sec. 316 (b) of the Biden-Pell amendment to the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1980. It urged the Director of the ISDC to provide assistance to private and voluntary organizations engaged in facilitating public discussion of hunger and other related issues. In 1981, the Agency for International Development established one-year grants to private voluntary organizations or PVOs to undertake a wide variety of development education activities in towns and cities in the United States. CARE became a Biden-Pell grant recipient in 1984.</p> <p>The files, 1981-1991, concern collaborative educational programs. CARE sponsored activities and programs at schools to raise the awareness of the urgent conditions in developing countries. An example of a successful national program was the Balloons for Child Survival launched in 1987. This one-day event had children from around the country and one high school in the Soviet Union launch helium filled balloons to bring attention to the fact that 3 million children die each year from preventable diseases. This initial launch raised nearly $250,000.</p> <p>Another major activity of the Development Education Department was CARE cooperative efforts with the agricultural industry of the Midwestern United States.</p> <p>The files are indicative of several successful programs originated and sponsored by CARE in cooperation with other non-governmental organizations or NGOs. For example, \"Growing Up in the World\" developed by Nancy Blum, was a traveling educational exhibit targeted at children 12 years of age and older. As an interactive exhibit, the objective was to encourage interest in health and development programs.</p> <p>Another excellent example of a program for school-age children was entitled \"The Last Forest\". Developed circa 1989, this program targeted junior and senior high school students. The purpose of the program was to educate students about tropical deforestation, and how CARE and other organizations were combating the problem.</p> <p>These packages were designed as motivational tools, not necessarily as fundraisers. CARE loaned the videos to schools and other educational institutions with the understanding that they were to be returned promptly after use for distribution to other schools. Files under the subject heading \"Schools\" contain surveys of students' knowledge of the rain forests. Note: There are no educational videos in the collection.</p> <p>The theater production One World Rap! written by George Sanchez, for CARE was a highly successful theater production about life in the developing world. This innovative program toured schools in the New York area. The files document the popularity of the program by the numerous requests for the production to appear at local schools. The files under the subject heading \"Schools\" contain evaluations of the theater production.</p> <p>The final group of files concerns Sharing Global Harvests (SGH). SGH one of CARE's most successful projects active between July 1984-January 1987. This project was funded from a Biden-Pell grant through the U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in 1984. The objective was to involve national farm organizations with large, established membership in a collaborative education project. Three farm organizations were selected to participate in the project named Food AID and the American Farm Community. These organizations were the National Cooperative Business Association, The American Farm Bureau Federation, and the National Farmers Union.</p> <p>The files contain budget, cables, correspondence, drafts and memorandum about the development of the educational programs, evaluations, faxes, flyers, photographs, memorandum, notes, press kits, printed matter, reports, and summaries.</p>"}