MCC is shipping 4,200 relief kits and 24,000 school kits to Iraq, which continues to be troubled by violence and instability. The relief kits will be distributed to Iraqis who have been displaced to camps by urban warfare, and the school kits will be distributed to children in low-income neighborhoods of Baghdad. The total value of the shipments is $442,000 Cdn./$360,000 U.S.