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Media Contact Information:
To arrange an interview with any of CARE's experts, please contact:
Susan Aitkin Weekdays: 404-681-2552 ext. 203.
Marge Tsitouris
CARE Emergency Group Director
Marge Tsitouris has over 22 years of overseas experience in relief and development, serving in Central America, Asia, and East and West Africa. Tsitouris provides support, guidance and supervision for emergency situations where CARE operates. She has extensive knowledge of programming in food and logistics, water and sanitation, infrastructure, agriculture and natural resources and health education. She most recently coordinated relief response in Southern Sudan, eastern Zaire and Rwanda.
Robert "Bob" MacPherson
CARE Emergency Group
Bob Macpherson joined CARE USA's Emergency Group as assistant director in 1998 after four years as a consultant to CARE, specializing in emergency training and operation start-up and management. In his current role, Macpherson organizes and implements emergency response activities in humanitarian crisis situations. In addition, he coordinates all of CARE's land mine awareness and demining programs worldwide. Since 1994, Macpherson has helped CARE respond to emergencies in Albania, Bosnia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kosovo, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan and Timor. Macpherson is a retired US Marine Corps colonel with 25 years of service, including Vietnam, Desert Storm and Somalia. As part of the United Nations operation Restore Hope in Somalia beginning in late 1992, Macpherson served as deputy director for Civil/Military Operations, prioritizing and coordinating multi-national relief efforts. From 1979 to 1982, Macpherson returned to his alma mater, the Virginia Military Institute, as an associate professor, where he taught military history and leadership. After completing active service with the Marines, he founded Enable, a humanitarian relief organization dedicated to assisting the survivors of land mines and war. Wounded in Vietnam, Macpherson is the recipient of the Presidential Legion of Merit and four commendations for valor.
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