Tag: CHARITIES
IOCC Responds To Victims Of Deadly Earthquake In Nepal
http://a.abcnews.com/ 27/4/15 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — A devastating 7.9 magnitude earthquake and several powerful aftershocks have rocked the ancient city of Kathmandu, Nepal, leaving a ... Read More
IOCC Assists Syrian Families Escaping Bloodshed In Idlib
http://static.euronews.com/ March-April 2015 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — As the security and humanitarian situation in Idlib, Syria, continues to deteriorate following escalated fighting this past weekend, ... Read More
IOCC Seeks Summer Interns For U.S. And Greece – DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL MARCH 31!
March 2015 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC), the official humanitarian relief agency of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the ... Read More
Restoring Water Access To Gaza’s Embattled Families
http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/ IOCC - February 2015 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — For Suha, 10, and her friend, Nada, 9, each day begins with a visit to a ... Read More
IOCC Delivers Winter Relief To Snowbound Syrian Refugees
February 2015 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Snow and frigid cold blanket Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, where nearly 400,000 Syrian refugees living in vinyl tents with packed ... Read More
IOCC Provides Vital Winter Relief For Syrian Children And War-Weary Families
Picture - http://a.abcnews.com/ January 2015 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Freezing temperatures, heavy snow and chilling winds sweeping across Syria are putting thousands of young lives ... Read More
IOCC Joins Largest U.S. Disaster Response Network
December 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — From comforting survivors of the 9/11 attacks in 2001, to helping Midwest families clean out their homes after last ... Read More
IOCC Congressional Campaign Highlights Relief Work : Urges International Development Support
November 2014 MD (IOCC) — In an ongoing effort to raise awareness and concern for urgent humanitarian needs around the world, International Orthodox Christian Charities ... Read More
Team IOCC Goes The Distance In Baltimore to Race Against Poverty
October 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — An Orthodox priest, a kindergartner and a retired grandmother joined nearly 30 other supporters of International Orthodox Christian Charities ... Read More
IOCC Book Distribution Promotes Learning To Underserved Youth In U.S.
October 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — From the smallest rural towns to the biggest cities, two-thirds of America's children living in poverty have no books ... Read More
Hundreds Of Thousands Homeless In Flood-Ravaged Pakistan
September 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — The race to reach dry land grows more urgent as massive flooding in Pakistan forces hundreds of thousands of ... Read More
IOCC Conference Cultivates Service
10/9/14 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — When record rainfall drenched the Midwest in July and triggered massive flooding of communities across Minnesota and Iowa, teen volunteers ... Read More
Flood Recovery Efforts Continue In Serbia And Bosnia
30/8/14 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Vladan and his wife welcome the arrival of much needed building supplies to repair their flood damaged home in Grdica, ... Read More
IOCC Responds To Critical Needs of Families In Gaza : Urges Support
Two displaced Palestinian women find refuge in the courtyard of St. Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza City. The church is sheltering more than 700 ... Read More
IOCC Assists Syrian Families Seeking Refuge In Northern Iraq
August 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Syrian refugee families wait patiently for their turn to receive emergency relief items from a distribution center in northern ... Read More
New School Removes Barrier To Learning For Uganda’s Children
One teacher provides instruction for 500 elementary students in this one-room, red-brick village school near the shores of Lake Victoria in Butembe, Uganda. There are ... Read More
IOCC Mobilizes To Provide Urgent Relief For Families Caught In Gaza Conflict
13/07/14 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — In this past week, the most intense violence in nearly two years has claimed over 100 lives, including 23 children, ... Read More
IOCC Responds to Victims of Flood Ravaged Midwest
30/6/14 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Rivers across the Midwest are surging over their banks, flooding cities and sweeping away summer crops as they fail to ... Read More
Creating a Path Out of Poverty for India’s Forgotten Families
June 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — The village of Annathur is home to 302 families and one of India's most marginalized communities. Many of the ... Read More
Bosnia’s Flood Survivors Face Slow and Difficult Recovery
16/6/14 - IOCC Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — When floodwaters from record breaking rainfall surged beyond the banks of the Bosna River last month, Šamac and ... Read More
Orthodox Christian Emergency Network Grows to 100 Members
June 2014 Chicago, IL (IOCC) — When seven people were killed and thirteen injured in a shooting rampage in Isla Vista, California, on May 23, ... Read More