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Jewish Groups Raising
Funds For Kurds
New York (JTA) — In the
wake of the mass flight of at
least one million Kurds from
war-torn northern Iraq,
American Jewish organiza-
tions are finding that their
relief efforts to aid the refu-
gees are being met by ge-
nerous support from the
Jewish community and
others.
The American Jewish
Joint Distribution Com-
mittee, which aids Jewish
communities throughout the
world, has collected over
$145,000 and 20,000
blankets for the Kurdish
refugees.
"There's been a massive,
rapid response from Jews
and others," said Amir
Shaviv, a Joint official, who
added that people could not
avert their eyes from such a
tragic exodus.
The Joint started soliciting
donations last week through
what officials call an "open
mailbox" program, whereby
administrative and
overhead costs come out of
the Joint's regular budget
and not out of donations.
Aryeh Cooperstock, direc-
tor of the agency's interna-
tional development pro-
gram, will go to the border
area soon to assess the situa-
tion and determine what the
refugees need, officials said.
"We will try and find the
niche where the impact of
our assistance will be max-
imized," said Michael
Schneider, JDC executive
vice president.
The Joint, whose programs
tend to focus on Jews in
precarious situations — such
as the Jewish communities
of Ethiopia and Albania,
whose transportation to
Israel was facilitated by the
Joint — has often turned its
attention to others in
distress.
"We know the pain of be-
ing abandoned by many
elements in the world com-
munity and we are deter-
mined not to see such indif-
ference inflicted on these
hapless victims of (Iraqi
President) Saddam Hus-
sein's aggression," said An-
drew Griffel, executive di-
rector of the American Jew-
ish World Service, which has
so far raised about $50,000
for the Kurds.
The AJWS, founded in
1985 as a way for Jews to aid
non-Jews in lesser developed
countries, is already sending
medical packages to refu-
gees on the Iran-Iraq border.
Working with the Interna-
tional Rescue Committee,
another private relief group,
AJWS will be sending a
medical team to the Turkish-
Iraqi border, where refugees
are suffering from hunger
and a variety of medical
ailments.
"We call on all elements of
the Jewish community to
join us with other voluntary
relief groups to seek to save
lives and to contain the pain
and suffering that is now so
evident before the world's
consciousness," said Mr.
Griffel.
Meanwhile Mazon, a Jew-
ish group that works to corn-
bat hunger all over the
world, has promised a
$100,000 emergency grant
for Kurdish refugee aid and
has appealed to its 600 syn-
agogue supporters to help
finance this aid.
The money will go toward
the purchase of vitamins,
food supplements and an-
tibiotics, said Lee Javitch,
"We know the pain
of being
abandoned by
many elements in
the world
community and we
are determined not
to see such
indifference
inflicted on these
hapless victims of
Saddam Hussein's
aggression."
— Andrew Griffel
chairman of Mazon. The
distribution effort will be co-
ordinated by Operation USA
and the U.N. Disaster Relief
Agency.
The supplies will be
distributed to Kurdish refu-
gees in clinics and encamp-
ments now under construc-
tion near the Turkish
border, Mazon officials said.
Mazon, which takes its
name from the Hebrew word
for sustenance, was founded
five years ago and its alloca-
tions to local and interna-
tional hunger-fighting agen-
cies have grown from
$20,000 in 1986 to over $1
million in 1990.
"Many tragedies leave us
feeling helpless to do
anything but grieve," said
Sholom Comay, president of
the American Jewish Com-
mittee, which has also laun-
ched a relief fund. "But this
time, we have the power to
save lives."