AJC Joins with IsraAID to Assist Ebola Victims in Africa

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Oct 02, 2014, 10:47 ET

NEW YORK, Oct. 2, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC is providing assistance via IsraAID, a leading Israeli non-governmental relief organization, to Ebola victims in Africa.

"The Ebola epidemic in Africa is devastating," said AJC Executive Director David Harris. "Medical experts from our Israeli partner, IsraAID, are on the ground bringing urgent, vital humanitarian relief to Ebola victims through health education and awareness training, as well as psychosocial support training."

AJC has been involved with several countries in the region since the AJC Africa Institute, headed by Eliseo Neuman, was founded in 2006.

With help from AJC's Heilbrunn Humanitarian Fund, AJC has partnered with IsraAID humanitarian relief missions in a number of crises over the years, including Sri Lanka after the unprecedented South Asian tsunami in 2004; Peru following a devastating earthquake in 2007; the Philippines after a deadly tropical storm in 2009; Haiti following the massive earthquake in 2010; the Philippines in 2013 after a typhoon; Bulgaria for Syrian refugees who sought a safe haven in the country in 2013; earlier this year in Bosnia-Herzegovina following massive flooding; and delivering last month urgent humanitarian aid to beleaguered Christian and Yazidi refugees who fled to Iraq's Kurdish region.

SOURCE American Jewish Committee