BAND-AID ® Brand Delivers Modern Day “CARE Packages” to Frontline Workers

expand FORT WASHINGTON, P.A., Sept. 21, 2020 /PR Newswire/ – BAND-AID® Brand of Johnson & Johnson Consumer Health today announced a strategic partnership with global humanitarian leader CARE®, the creator of the original CARE Package®, delivering aid to caregivers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, including meals, PPE and critical healthcare and delivery services[1]. To commemorate its 100th anniversary, BAND-AID® Brand is making a $100,000 donation to CARE®, and encouraging consumers to send CARE Packages to support frontline heroes and caregivers around the world for the next 100 days. The first BAND-AID® Brand Adhesive Bandage was made in 1920, originally developed by a Johnson & Johnson employee who was caring for his wife after a cooking mishap. One hundred years later, BAND-AID® Brand Adhesive Bandages remain a staple in medicine cabinets across the world as a symbolic icon for healing. The CARE® organization was similarly founded to help others, when they sent the first CARE Packages at the end of World War II to deliver food and other supplies to thousands of survivors overseas. This strategic partnership with BAND-AID® Brand marks the first time in its 75 years of operation that CARE® has set up a response stateside, extending its care, comfort and protection to frontline workers in the United States during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. “We are humbled and proud to use our legacy and resources to invite more people...
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