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How to Help the Refugees in Eastern Zaire

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