WATERLOO – You can help the terrified children of GAZA who have been left homeless, injured, without food and water, clothing, and some even, without parents – the real casualties of the recent conflict.

The local, Waterloo Region-based not-for-profit charitable organization, Canadian International Development Organization (CIDO), is embarking on a 60-day campaign to request funds to help the children of GAZA. All donations will be directed through the Mennonite Central Committee Ontario (MCC) a relief, service, development and peace agency, who will issue tax receipts. CIDO’s mandate is to alleviate suffering, particularly in the areas of the Middle East and North Africa where areas have been torn by strife. The donations will be used to purchase such items as food and other emergency supplies.

CIDO, through MCC, and generous donations made by the community, will work towards its belief in helping through healing the impoverished children of GAZA, a purpose that is strictly a humanitarian one.

Donations can be made payable to the Mennonite Central Committee and dropped off or mailed to their Ontario Head Office located at 50 Kent Avenue, Kitchener, Ontario, N2G 3R1, phoning in your donation to 519 745 8458 or donating on-line by visiting http://www.mcc.org/donate/donate.html.