To support the aid work in Japan, CARE Germany-Luxembourg e.V. is collecting funds for CARE Japan. Help is needed urgently. Read here parts of the latest messages from CARE Japan:

“Tokyo, March 16, 2011. …One of the media agencies reported that the number of the displaced people is approximately 530,000 and 2,400 shelters have been set up. It is estimated the casualties and missing would exceed ten and twenty thousands.

In response to this situation, CARE Japan has began establish emergency fund. Whereas the access to the affected region is highly difficult, we will utilize the experience of 65 years of emergency missions around the world to organise an immediate response. As first step, CARE Japan is sending a convoy of three vehicles packed with relief items to the destroyed area of Iwate prefecture in North Japan to assist people affected by the massive earthquake and tsunami. “It is a huge challenge at the moment to procure much-needed food, water and sanitary items. However, we managed to source supplies from Western Japan which we will distribute to affected families in an emergency shelter in Kamaishi city”, says Katsuhiko Takeda, National Director of CARE Japan.

In this severe condition, displaced people are helping and giving hands each other. It is certain that assistance as well as encouragement both from Japan and all over the world will help the affected people. We need your support to deploy an immediate mission.”

国际救助贫困组织（CARE）是世界上主要的人道主义组织，在世界上70多个国家中帮助对抗贫困和不公正。在紧急救助和开发合作方面，它拥有60多年的实践和实际工作经验。它的计划解决贫困的深层次的根本原因，不仅仅是其产生的结果。最近的数字显示，国际救助贫困组织（CARE）每年帮助5900多万人找到脱贫的途径。

国际救助贫困组织（CARE）与联合国经济和社会理事会保持着顾问状态，帮助需要帮助的人们，无论他们的政治信仰、宗教或者种族情况如何。国际救助贫困组织（德国－卢森堡）（CARE Deutschland-Luxemburg）位于德国，形成国际救助贫困组织（ CARE International）的一部分。

在第二次世界大战后，由22家美国组织组成的一个社团共同努力，向饱受战争创伤的德国（数百万人正在遭受着饥饿之苦）交付了大于1千万的CARE包。出于对这次慷慨行动的感激之情，于1980年成立了国际救助贫困组织（德国）（CARE Deutschland），今天，以国际救助贫困组织（德国－卢森堡）（CARE Deutschland-Luxemburg e.V.）的名称运行。该组织已经赢得了监测慈善性非政府组织捐赠的使用情况的独立机构DZI的认证，同时赢得了审计公司普华永道（PricewaterhouseCoopers）关于透明度和可计算性方面的认证。