Major,
Respected Disaster Relief and Development Agencies at work around the world
The
agencies listed below are at work around the clock and around the world in the
immediate response to major disasters. More important, many of them are involved
in ongoing development efforts to help individuals, communities and nations help
themselves:
American Friends
Service Committee AFSC is a widely respected Quaker organization that includes
people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian
service.
Bread for the World A US
based Christian citizens' movement that seeks justice for the world's hungry people
by lobbying out nation's decision makers.
Disaster
News Network Church World Service updates you at this site on the late
breaking news of disasters around the world, and how you can help.
Doctors
Without Borders
An international independent medical humanitarian organization
that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural
or man-made disasters, or exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries.
Oxfam Affiliates operate
in over 100 countries worldwide working with local partners to alleviate poverty
and injustice.
Save the Children
More than 60 years of experience working hand-in-hand with families and communities
around the world gives this organization a track record addressing the needs of
children. Save the Children celebrates the role of sponsorship and mentoring in
improving the lives of children.
Food For
the Hungry This relief effort will appeal to the evangelical Christian.
At this website you can contribute money to the relief effort in New Orleans and
elsewhere, but also share in the prayers.
American Jewish World Service A
nonprofit organization dedicated to providing nonsectarian humanitarian assistance and
emergency relief to disadvantaged people worldwide.
Project
Heifer International This simple idea of giving families a source of food
rather than short-term relief caught on and has continued for almost 60 years.
Today, millions of families in 128 countries have been given the gifts of self-reliance
and hope.
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