Church World Service Providing Emergency Food, Medicine to Haiti

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www.churchworldservice.org

NEW YORK, NY - Wed 3/3 - Global humanitarian agency Church World Service (CWS) announced today that it will provide initial shipments of emergency food and medicine for Haiti beginning Monday (3/8). The agency is also advocating for U.S. protection of Haitian asylum seekers.

The Church World Service shipments include 17,280 pounds of dehydrated food, packed in two-pound bags, as well as as 30 Interchurch Medical Assistance standard medicine boxes and eight disaster medicine boxes. The aid shipments will be directed to Church World Service’s partner in the Dominican Republic to ensure safe delivery and subsequent distribution to serve in-country Haitians and Haitians now in the Dominican Republic.

Individuals or groups wishing to make financial contributions for Haitian material aid may send checks or money orders to: Church World Service, P.O. Box 968, Elkhart, IN, 46515. Please designate: #6742 - Haiti Crisis.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/107841760947.htm

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4. "The agency is also advocating for U.S. protection...

...of Haitian asylum seekers."

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