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Covenant World Relief Partners to Assist Africa
BALTIMORE, MD (June 19, 2004) - As violence rages in the volatile African
countries of Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), World
Relief and Covenant World Relief have partnered to provide immediate aid
for refugees affected by these growing humanitarian crises.
Renewed fighting in eastern Congo has driven thousands of refugees into
neighboring Rwanda. World Relief will help 3,000 vulnerable Congolese
refugees through emergency food rations of rice and beans distributed
through local churches. Meanwhile, more than one million people have
fled the violence in western Sudan, and an estimated 130,000 refugees
have spilled over the border into Chad. World Relief and its local
church partners are helping the Sudanese refugee crisis through a
refugee camp construction project.
Covenant World Relief is helping with providing food and clothing - well
over $50,000 in recent months, according to a World Relief
representative - as it has worked with World Relief and local churches
in assessing how to provide quick and efficient help in future
humanitarian responses.
"Responding quickly to the natural, man-made disasters of the world is a
key value we have," says Jim Sundholm, director of Covenant World
Relief. "And partnering to assist in the alleviation of suffering is a
major goal. In both places - in Darfur, Sudan, and in Congo - we have
been able to be immediately present with appropriate responses to our
size (as a denomination)."
For 60 years, World Relief has worked with local churches in more than
20 countries to create sustainable solutions that help the poor and
suffering. World Relief's programs include disaster relief, refugee
assistance, AIDS ministries, community health, agricultural development
and community banking. It has been gratifying for Covenant World Relief
to partner in significant ways to assist in a humanitarian venture that
has benefited others so effectively, Sundholm notes. World Relief's
Rwanda Country Director Dan Brose said, "I am sure that our response to
the refugee problem will be maximized through this network to comfort
and console suffering families."
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