For Immediate Release
Contact:
MIKE KIERNAN
November 15, 1996
202-667-8227, ext-132
InterAction, a Washington, DC-based coalition of more than 150 U.S. nonprofit
humanitarian aid groups, has issued the following list of its relief agencies
accepting monetary contributions for relief efforts to assist victims of
the current crisis in Eastern Zaire. For more information, call 202-667-8227.
ADVENTIST
DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY ADRA Zaire 12501 Old Columbia Pike Silver Spring, MD 20904 (301) 680-6370 AFRICARE 440 R Street NW Washington, DC 20001 (202) 462-3614 AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE JDC-Zaire Open Mailbox 711 Third Avenue, 10th Fl New York, NY 10017 (212) 885-0832 (212) 885-0815 AMERICAN RED CROSS ARC International Response Fund PO Box 37243 Washington, DC 20013 (800) HELP NOW (English) (800) 257-7575 (Spanish) AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE Zaire Relief 989 Avenue of the Americas, 10th Fl New York, NY 10018 (800) 889-7146 AMERICAN REFUGEE COMMITTEE American Refugee Committee Africa 2344 Nicollet Avenue South, Suite 350 Minneapolis, MN 55404 (612) 872-7060 BAPTIST WORLD AID Africa Refugee Assistance 6733 Curran Street McLean, VA 22102-6005 (703) 790-8980 THE BROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION 1501 Reedsdale Street Suite 3005 Pittsburgh, PA 15233-2341 (412) 321-3160 CARE Central Africa Crisis Response 151 Ellis Street, NE Atlanta, GA 30303-2439 (800) 521-CARE CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES CRS Central Africa, Zaire PO Box 17090 Baltimore MD 21203 (800) 235-2772 | CHRISTIAN
REFORMED WORLD RELIEF COMMITTEE CRWRC Rwandan Refugees 2850 Kalamazoo Avenue SE Grand Rapids, MI 49560 (800) 55CRWRC DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL Direct Relief Zaire or Rwanda Relief 27 South La Patera Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93 (805) 964-4767 DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA (Medecins Sans Frontieres USA) 11 East 26th Street, 19th floor New York, NY 10010 (212) 679-6800 DOCTORS OF THE WORLD 375 West Broadway, 4th Floor New York, NY 10012 (888) 817-HELP (toll free) FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY Food for the Hungry Emergency Relief 7729 East Greenway Road Scottsdale, AZ 85260 (800) 2 HUNGER INTERCHURCH MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PO Box 429 New Windsor, MD 21776 (410) 635-8720 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS 12233 W. Olympic Blvd., #280 Los Angeles, CA 90064-1052 (800)481-4462 INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE 122 East 42nd Street, 12th Fl New York, NY 10168-1289 (212) 551-3000 LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF LWR for the Great Lakes Emergency PO Box 92949 Rochester, NY 14692 (800) 597-5972 MAP INTERNATIONAL 2200 Glynco Parkway PO Box 215000 Brunswick, GA 31521-5000 (800) 225-8550 MERCY CORPS INTERNATIONAL 3030 S.W. First Avenue Portland, OR 97201 (503) 242-1032 | OPERATION
USA Operation USA/Central Africa 8320 Melrose Avenue, Suite 200 Los Angeles, CA 90069 (800) 678-7255 OXFAM AMERICA 26 West Street Boston, MA 02111 (800) OXFAM US SALVATION ARMY 615 Slaters Lane PO Box 269 Alexandria, VA 22313 (703) 684-5528 SAVE THE CHILDREN Africa Emergency PO 975R Westport CT 06881 (203) 221-4130 UNITED METHODIST COMMITTEE ON RELIEF Bishop's Appeal for Africa, Advance 3101275-4 475 Riverside Drive, Room 330 New York, NY 10115 (212) 870-3814 U.S. Committee for UNICEF Zaire Emergency Relief 333 East 38th Street New York, NY 10016 (212) 686-5522 WORLD RELIEF World Relief Central Africa Department 3 PO Box WRC Wheaton, IL 60189 (800) 535 5433 WORLD VISION Africa Great Lakes Relief PO Box 70005 Takoma, WA 98471-0005 (888) 511 6565 (toll free) The following agency is collecting donations to support local organizations performing human rights monitoring: UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SERVICE COMMITTEE 130 Prospect Street Cambridge, MA 02139-1813 (617) 868-6600 |