You Can Help Those in Georgia (Updated)

Last updated on: August 20, 2008 at 9:33 am by Fr. Joseph Huneycutt

You Can Help Those in Georgia (Updated) 2008-08-20T09:33:00-05:00 Fr. Joseph Huneycutt

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More than 100,000 people have been displaced due to the conflict in Georgia. SCOBA’s “International Orthodox Christian Charities” is distributing essential food and hygiene supplies to families in Georgia, and is working with the Russian Orthodox Church to assist refugees in North Ossetia. To donate to IOCC and for further information of its activities in the region — and throughout the world — go HERE.

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND — International Orthodox Christian Charities – IOCC – distributed emergency food and hygiene supplies to people who were displaced due to the conflict between Georgian, Russian, and South Ossetian forces. The distribution took place last Thursday in Tbilisi where displaced families took shelter in a school for the blind and in the nearby town of Tskvarichamia. IOCC is also coordinating assistance to refugees in North Ossetia (Russia) in partnership with the Russian Orthodox Church. “Most people had to flee the fighting in South Ossetia and brought nothing more than the clothes on their backs,” said IOCC Georgia Program Manager DAREJAN DZOTSENIDZE. The Georgian government and the U.N. are currently registering some 23,000 people who fled the conflict and poured into Tbilisi. Those numbers are expected to increase. IOCC released emergency funds to its Tbilisi and Moscow offices earlier this week to purchase food items such as pasta, rice, cereal, sugar and tea, and hygiene items including towels, soap and tooth paste. The collective centers where the displaced are housed often have two families in one room. “Many of those who fled hid in basements and forests until they had to find food,” said Dzotsenidze. “Now they are saying, ‘please help me to get home – even if you give me a palace here, I would rather go home.’” IOCC, which has worked on emergency and development projects in Russia and Georgia since the early 1990s, is working in partnership with the Georgian Orthodox Church in the affected areas of Georgia and with the Russian Orthodox Church in North Ossetia.

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Image of St Nino – Equal to the Apostles & Evangelizer of Georgia, taken from the Clergy Brotherhood Memo of the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America.

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