Orthodox agency joins Ethiopian AIDS battle: Project includes abstinence-based education initiative
The relief agency sponsored by the nine major Eastern Orthodox churches in the United States is joining a $6 million program to fight AIDS in Ethiopia.
International Orthodox Christian Charities says the three-year project, supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development, hopes to bring education, health care, food and shelter to 9,000 children orphaned by the AIDS pandemic. The Baltimore-based IOCC will contribute $1 million, along with the relief office of the Ethiopian church; USAID will pay $5 million.