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Samaritan's Purse to Airlift 90 Tons of Aid to Help Iraqi and Syrian Families

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ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 609, Lake Forest, CA 92609-0609 USA Visit our web site at: www.assistnews.net -- E-mail: assistnews@aol.com Thursday, October 9, 2014 Samaritan's Purse to Airlift 90 Tons of Aid to Help Iraqi and Syrian Families Ministry will help those Forced to Flee Homes in the wake of ISIS (Islamic State) Terrorist Advance By Michael Ireland Special Correspondent, ASSIST News Service BOONE, NC (ANS) -- Samaritan's Purse has been actively working in northern Iraq since 2007.  Following Syria's civil conflict and now the attacks on civilians by ISIS (Islamic State), Samaritan's Purse has provided relief ranging from food and shelter to heaters, mattresses and shoes. The organization also distributed 65,000 Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts in January. In northern Iraq, thousands of Iraqi and Syrian families have fled for their lives from ISIS (Islamic State) fighters who brutally attacked their towns and villages. Many showed up in the region with just the clothes on their backs. Now winter is coming to the area, making a difficult situation even worse for these families. To help them survive the freezing temperatures and harsh conditions, international Christian relief organization Samaritan's Purse is launching an airlift of relief supplies on Monday from Charlotte. The Samaritan's Purse airlift from Charlotte, N.C., provided 110 tons of emergency relief supplies to disaster victims after typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines on Nov. 5, 2013 (shown here). Now, the organization will provide supplies to those affected by the military advance of ISIS (Islamic State) in Syria and Northern Iraq. (Photo courtesy of Samaritan's Purse). The airlift will bring critical supplies to the region, including winter coats for children, blankets, warm socks, sleeping bags and shelter materials, on Monday, Oct. 13, at 10:30 a.m., from Charlotte-Douglas Int'l Airport (Gate 40, 4062 Yorkmont Road, Charlotte, NC). Media Opportunities include interviews with Franklin Graham, who will share his perspective on the violent ISIS(Islamic State) attacks on innocent people and the impact on families in the region and interviews with Samaritan's Purse staff, including a relief worker who just returned from the refugee camps in northern Iraq. Photo and video opportunities showing loading of supplies onto the 747 cargo jet will include live shots from tarmac at Noon. Based in Boone, NC., Samaritan's Purse responds to the physical and spiritual needs of individuals in crisis situations-especially in locations where few others are working. Led by President and CEO Franklin Graham, Samaritan's Purse works in more than 100 countries to provide aid to victims of war, disease, di saster, poverty, famine and persecution. For more information, visit www.samaritanspurse.org.     See all ASSIST News articles at www.assistnews.net ** Michael Ireland is a volunteer Internet Journalist and licensed minister who has served as Chief Correspondent and Senior International Correspondent for ASSIST News Service ASSIST News Service. since 1998. He has reported for ANS from Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Israel, Jordan, China, and Russia. For a digest of ANS stories, log-on to Mike's Monitor at https://paper.li/Michael_ASSIST/1410023867 ** You may republish this story with proper attribution. Send this story to a friend. Note to our subscribers: It you really appreciate what we do through ANS and would like to make a donation to help us continue with this unique news service, you can do so in two ways. First, just go to our secure site at www.assistnews.net/assist/donations.htm, where you can sign up for a monthly gift or a one-off contribution (tax-deductible in the US). Second, if you prefer to send a check, just make it out to ASSIST, and mail it to ASSIST, PO Box, 609, Lake Forest, CA 92609, USA (also tax-deductible in the US). Thank you so much for caring! Dan Wooding ASSIST News Service is Sponsored By