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TO SUPPORT MENTAL HEALTH IN GAZA STRIP

Their mission is to assist individuals and families subjected to torture and war trauma to rebuild healthy, self-sufficient lives and to contribute knowledge and testimony to global efforts to end torture. Since its inception in 1995, the Program has cared for more than 5,000 men, women and children from over 100 countries. The Bellevue Program for Survivors of Torture (PSOT) provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary care addressing the medical, mental health, legal, and social service needs of torture survivors and their families residing in the New York metropolitan area.

Operation Refugee Child (ORC) distributes backpacks with basic necessities to bring comfort, health, safety and warmth to refugee children and families who have left everything behind. Through our international network of volunteers and local NGOs in US, Middle East and Europe, we assemble and distribute backpacks to refugee children and families fleeing violence and war. In 2016, ORC will distribute basic necessities and at least 10,000 backpacks to refugee children.

Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) seeks to accompany, serve and advocate the cause of refugees and other forcibly displaced people, so that they may heal, learn and determine their own future.Jesuit Refugee Service/USA is based in Washington, DC and provides pastoral care for people detained in the US and support for refugees around the world through funding, oversight, monitoring and evaluation of JRS projects and programming. JRS works in 58 countries to meet the educational, health, psycho-social and emergency needs of nearly 1,000,000 refugees and displaced persons. JRS responds to humanitarian emergencies in places like Ukraine, Syria, and Iraq and works in settings of prolonged crises such as South Sudan, Chad and Ethiopia.

The Tibetan Nuns Project supports and educates Tibetan Buddhist nuns in India by funding and running educational programs, building and strengthening nunneries, and providing food, health care, and training so nuns can become teachers and community leaders.

Project Mercy's mission is to transform how people live and think and build strong, self-sufficient communities in Ethiopia and beyond through new knowledge, better health, sustainable food sources and strengthened character for all people as a living example of the love of Jesus Christ. The vision statement is to renew the heart of a nation by stopping out systematic and spiritual poverty.