Emergency Disaster Fund supports recovery work in US, Iraq.

A total of $51,000 is being allocated from the Church of the Brethren General Board's Emergency Disaster Fund for the work of the Church of the Brethren Emergency Response program and Mennonite Central Committee.

Three grants totaling $25,000 will support current Emergency Response projects in the US. A grant of $5,000 will go to fire-damaged southern California, continuing support for Disaster Child Care while parents work to clean debris and rebuild their homes. A $10,000 grant has been allocated for a project in Metropolis, Ill., covering remaining expenses of work resulting from tornado and storm damage in the spring of 2003. Another $10,000 will help begin a long-term recovery project in Poquoson, Va., the result of damage done by Hurricane Isabel on the East Coast in the fall of 2003.

A grant of $26,000 has been made to Mennonite Central Committee to help rebuild a school in Baghdad, Iraq. This grant is a continuation of a previous allocation. The school serves 370 children who are day students, and 80 older children who receive vocational training in the evenings.

Source: Newsline 1/30/2004
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