Charlotte Todd is part of the Denver, Colorado Metropolitan Committee and is devoted to helping raise awareness and financial support for IOCC's worldwide humanitarian projects. Charlotte recently competed in a triathlon to raise money for IOCC. Charlotte told her supporters, "If I can inspire you to give, then your support will in turn inspire me to go the distance for someone besides myself." Charlotte completed the triatholon and raised more than $1,000 for IOCC's humanitarian programs. ...

IOCC recently delivered a 40 foot container of hygiene kits, baby supplies and quilts to Gaza for families that are recovering from last January's war. The kits were provided by IOCC partner LWR (Lutheran World Relief) and cleared through customs by ANERA (American Near East Refugee Aid). Do you need a project for your Sunday School kids and youth groups? Assemble an IOCC Hygiene Kit today and help families that have been displaced by natural disasters and war get the supplies they need! Supplies are running low, so help us get stocked up today! ...

Orthodox Churches throughout the U.S. will have the opportunity to change lives and share in the work of IOCC around the world on Sunday, November 22 - IOCC Sunday: A Day of Sharing. Join us in helping to make the work of IOCC better known and supported throughout our North American churches! ...

IOCC recently held a conference in Houston, TX, with both regional clergy and laity in attendance, to discuss lessons learned one year after Hurricane Ike devastated the Gulf Coast of Texas. Based on the recommendations from the conference, IOCC will identify and network parishioners with skills relevant in an emergency, catalogue available parish resources, establish Action Teams, offer training in emergency response management to interested clergy and laity, and develop preparedness plans and continuity of operations plans. ...

For millions of people in the developing world, education is a rare privilege, not a right. For those who have been given that privilege, what better way to express gratitude than by using that education to benefit and enrich others? This was driven home to me during a meaningful encounter on my recent trip to review IOCC's work in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. I had the privilege of meeting Wahid and Omar, two young Iraqis who fled their country's turmoil. Like the more than one million Iraqi refugees living in Syria, they do not have permits to work, and the Syrian government, burdened by the influx of so many refugees, cannot provide sufficient services. Wahid and Omar met when they were enrolled in an IOCC computer training class and discovered that they had known each other in Iraq through an internet chat room. ...

International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) is coordinating the delivery of hygiene kits that will assist over 3,000 survivors of Typhoons Ketsana and Parma, which struck the Philippines in late September. The subsequent floods and mudslides killed hundreds and an estimated 2.5 million people are either homeless or in need of emergency aid. This latest effort by IOCC is part of its response to a series of natural disasters -- multiple typhoons, earthquakes and a tsunami -- that recently hit Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. Whole communities have been destroyed with thousands killed or injured and millions left homeless in the wake of the destruction. ...

International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) is part of a coordinated international effort to bring relief to the thousands that have been displaced by Typhoon Ketsana in the Philippines and the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that devastated western Sumatra in Indonesia. Typhoon Ketsana struck the Philippines on September 26 and the subsequent floods and mudslides killed hundreds and displaced thousands. IOCC is working through the Orthodox Church in the hard-hit province of Rizal to deliver emergency supplies to victims. ...