CARE International Provides Fresh Vegetables To The Injured CARE International is delivering fresh vegetables to people in Gaza who are destitute and sheltering from the ongoing bombardment. The Gaza Fresh Food Project funded by the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO) buys produce from local Gaza farmers who lack markets and redistributes the absolutely fresh produce to families dependent on food assistance to supplement their diets, assuring they are consuming a full complement not only of calories, but of micronutrients. Fresh vegetables are a very important part of the Gazan diet and Palestinian cuisine, so this project speaks not only to nutrition, it speaks to comfort. To hearth and home. In the ongoing emergency in Gaza, CARE and ECHO have agreed to amend the project to meet demands of the circumstances. Fresh vegetables are now also being delivered to 11 hospitals and to Gaza’s Food Bank, which provides daily hot meals to the house-bound, including the aged, disabled, ill, and injured. Despite the enormous risks of moving around, one day, January 1, 2009, CARE delivered enough vegetables to 11 hospitals for an entire week of meals for the patients. Nearly 1700 families received food baskets for a week on the same day and 1000 households received hot meals from the Food Bank. Deliveries will continue on a daily basis throughout the Gaza Strip as long as the security situation permits. Gaza Fresh Food manager Mohammed Alwan supervises delivery to a Gaza hospital