IRAQI HUMANITARIAN FUNDRAISER
YOU CAN HELP!
Aug 3, 2-4p Join us for Appetizers, Conversation and Fundraising
RSVP if you can 206-722-4121 or info@...
For more information including locations or if you cannot make it and
want to donate by mail or online go to www.iraqifundraiser.org

NIHAC is cosponsoring (along with Washington Physicians for Social
Responsibility, Service Employees International Union 1199NW and other
groups) the Iraqi Humanitarian Fundraiser on August 3.

As you know, the humanitarian situation in Iraq is no less than a dire
crisis. As I begin to hear
back from my relatives in Iraq I am saddened to learn the conditions
under which they are living and trying to survive.

But there is something that can be done. There are relief agencies
working in Iraq to restore a destroyed civilian infrastructure.

UNICEF has been supporting emergency interventions in Iraq since
the start of the 1991 Gulf War and the imposition of sanctions, with a
focus on
immunization, primary health care, nutrition, water and
sanitation, education, and child protection.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is repairing
hospitals and essential water and sanitation systems. They provided
Iraqis with the only means
of contacting relatives outside the country when
telecommunications were destroyed. It was through an ICRC cell call
that I learned my family in Iraq had
survived the war.
The American Friends Service Committee is working to provide
emergency medications and clean water supplies.

The organizers of this fundraiser chose to raise money for these
particular organizations because they are currently on the ground in
Iraq, have a proven track record there and are working with the Iraqi
people to assess and assist with their needs.

Please join us on SUNDAY Aug 3, 2-4p. Come for all or part of the
fundraiser. Meet Gerri Haynes, past president of Washington Physicians
for Social Responsibility, who was recently in Iraq with the Seattle
PostIntelligencier. If you cannot RSVP to attend
(info@... or 206-722-4121) please consider donating on-
line at http://www.iraqifundraiser.org OR writing a check
to American Friends Service Committee, ICRC, or UNICEF. Please note
"for Iraqi relief" on the memo line of your check and mail to Iraqi
Fundraiser, 4917 South Alaska St, Seattle, WA 98118. Please consider
hosting your own fundraiser for Iraq. The co-organizers are putting
together a fundraiser "kit" to make this easy.

Please join me in helping the Iraqi people get back on their feet
again. I look forward to the day when raising money for the people of
Iraq will again be unnecessary. But in the meantime we can help!

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Donna Denno