CARE PACKAGE Definition & Meaning

care package

noun

Also CARE package. a package containing food, clothing, or other items sent as necessities to people in need of them.
a gift of treats to relatives or friends, especially of items not readily available to them:
She sends monthly care packages of homemade cookies to her son at college.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of care package¹

First recorded in 1945–50; from the aid packages distributed by CARE

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Idioms and Phrases

A gift package of food or other items not readily available to the recipient, as in While I was in college, Mom sent me a care package of homemade cookies just about every month . This term originated after World War II with CARE, an organization founded to send needed food, clothing, and other items to war-torn nations. By the 1960s the term had been transferred to sending packages of treats to children at camp, students away at school, and the like.

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“These guys are asserting their humanity through trying to prepare food as best they can, through the care package system that’s available to them,” Kinmont said.

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A multi-disciplinary team delivers her care package, which includes two nurses attending daily, a consultant geriatrician and a physiotherapist.

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Patients may be well enough to leave but they cannot be discharged because there is no care package in place at home or they need to go into a nursing or residential home for either a short or long-term stay.

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One of Ms Sala's colleagues at Chora Media said she had been allowed to receive a "care package" in jail with a panettone, chocolate, cigarettes and an eye mask to allow her to sleep despite the prison's bright lights, which are never turned off.

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"Where a young person is not eligible for Welsh government further education funding, we will carry out a comprehensive individual wellbeing assessment so that we can identify their needs and put the best care package for them in place," it added.

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