After looting and neglect due to years of war and sanctions, adult schools formed to train Iraqi carpenters, blacksmiths, electricians and other trades workers lack functioning workshops, as well as...
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School kits urgently needed for Iraq
Families in Iraq hope to send their children to school when classes begin in October. Due to ongoing economic difficulties, however, many families will not be able to afford to provide their children...
Displaced Iraqi families grateful for MCC relief kits, hopeful for land
by Edward Miller BAQUUBA, Iraq -- A scrawny chicken scampers along the freshly swept concrete floor in search of sustenance. There is no grain in this doorless, windowless building, but it is as...
Baghdad orphans receive MCC relief kits
By Maria Linder-Hess AKRON, Pa. - After receiving a Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) relief kit in July, 15-year-old Noor looked up at a Mennonite relief worker and responded in English. "It's...
European Mennonites collect nearly 7,000 MCC relief kits for Iraq
AKRON, Pa. - From Austria to France, Mennonite churches and organizations across Western Europe have collected nearly 7,000 Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) relief kits to assist families in Iraq...
MCC poised to help rebuild Iraq
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is planning to spend more than $630,000 U.S./$865,000 Cdn. in emergency relief aid, trauma counseling, peace building and clearance of unexploded ordnance in...
Iraq crisis response: Update Wednesday 21 May
During the first five days in Iraq, the seven member MCC assessment team has been able to visit many of the projects supported by MCC before the war. George Richert, connecting from Baghdad by...
Iraq: MCC delivers relief items to senior citizens in Baghdad
By Edward Miller BAGHDAD, Iraq - One day after Baghdad erupted in a frenzy of looting when the Ba'athist regime fell, 68-year-old Kassem Abdul Hassan watched a mob of 20 men approach the gate of the...
Aid worker provides first-hand reports of life in post-war Iraq
As Baghdad fell to coalition troops in early April, looters ransacted Al Rashad Psychiatric Hospital, the only mental hospital in Iraq. Terrified, all 1,015 residents fled as looters stole medicine...
Iraq crisis response: Update Wednesday 5 May
On Thursday Relief Items, contributed by a number of agencies, were sent to Iraq in a convoy of six trucks from Amman, Jordan. The convoy arrived safely in Baghdad late Friday night. The convoy, made...
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MCC supports Catholic church projects to assist Iraqi refugees
AMMAN, Jordan -- "Saddam has already taken most of our dignity," said an Iraqi refugee now living here. For the 305,000 Iraqis living in Jordan, dignity is hard to come by. They left Iraq for...
Iraq crisis response: Update Wednesday 30 April
MCC worker Edward Miller has returned to Baghdad to assess material aid distributions. During the week of Apr. 28, 6,900 relief kits will be shipped in three containers from North America. On...
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Update from MCC Iraq - Security improving in Baghdad
Security is improving by the day in Baghdad, though the situation is still considered volatile. Moving around requires caution, and a de facto dusk till dawn curfew exists. US forces, with the help...
In Iraq MCC faces prospect of having to deliver aid with help of military
By Edward Miller AMMAN, Jordan =AD As Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) prepares to implement aid programs in Iraq, MCC staff are increasingly concerned about the involvement of the U.S. and British...
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War in Iraq: MCC material aid pre-positioned in Baghdad, Basra, Nasiriya and Amara
Edward Miller How does my relief kit get to Iraq? AMMAN, Jordan - "What is it?" asked a sceptical dock worker named Ashraf in Aqaba, Jordan, pointing to a bundle wrapped in plastic. Mennonite Central...
MCC helps rehabilitate Iraqi schools, distributes school kits
By Edward Miller DIWANIYAH, Iraq - As U.N. inspectors scour Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is rehabilitating schools and distributing school kits to help...
Background information on Mennonite Central Committee in Iraq
Extract Background Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is a relief, development, and service organization supported by Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches in the USA and Canada. MCC seeks to show...
Iraq: MCC aid arrives in Middle East, more on the way
AKRON, Pa. - A shipping container of 19,200 cans of beef for potential Iraqi refugees will be loaded for shipment to Jordan on Wednesday, February 19 at the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Material...
MCC aid for Iraq arriving in Middle East, more needed
Seven 40-foot MCC containers of relief kits, blankets and comforters and school kits have arrived in the Middle East as MCC continues to pre-position humanitarian supplies in anticipation of a war in...
Iraq administrator, MCC consider humanitarian implications of war
By Maria Linder-Hess NEW YORK - Sixty percent of Iraqi people don't have access to clean water, and unclean water is already a major cause of death in Iraqi children, said Margaret Hassan, Iraq...