IOCC Hurricane Appeal!

Onlookers view debris from several oceanfront restaurants washed onto Seawall Boulevard in Galveston, Texas, following the landfall of Hurricane Ike earlier in the day. International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) has been in contact with Orthodox hierarchs in the affected areas and deployed a team of IOCC staff and Orthodox clergy known as the “Frontline” to coordinate a relief plan with IOCC partners on the ground in Texas.               (photo credit: Bob Pearson/epa/Corbis)

UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OF THE USA
OFFICE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS
PRESS RELEASE

IOCC Hurricane Appeal

As rescuers conducted the largest search and recovery operation in Texas history, officials in 11 states were assessing the cumulative damage of the 2008 hurricane season after two tropical storms and two hurricanes made landfall in the U.S. in just four weeks.

International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC), which mobilized its Emergency Network for this year’s severe weather including the Iowa floods and Hurricane Gustav, has been in contact with Orthodox hierarchs in the affected areas and deployed a team of IOCC staff and Orthodox clergy known as the “Frontline.” They are now in Texas evaluating the aftermath of Hurricane Ike and coordinating a relief plan with IOCC partners on the ground.

IOCC is issuing an emergency appeal for its continuing response with cash funds going towards immediate clean-up and recovery efforts. Orthodox faithful, including Sunday Schools, youth groups and others, are also urged to continue providing emergency clean-up buckets and health kits for shipment to the Gulf Coast (for information on assembling the kits go to www.iocc.org/emergencykits.aspx). IOCC distributed 1,000 such kits in New Orleans and Baton Rouge immediately following Hurricane Gustav.

Cash donations can be made by mailing a check or money order payable to “UOC of USA” and writing “IOCC Hurricane Appeal” in the memo line to

IOCC Hurricane Appeal
Consistory of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA
PO Box 495
South Bound Brook, NJ 08880

IOCC, founded in 1992 as the official humanitarian aid agency of the Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA), has implemented over $275 million in relief and development programs in 33 countries around the world.
 

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