Article: B'nai Brith Canada and Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center Support Distribution of Vital Medical Aid to Darfur.

TORONTO, ONTARIO, Aug 5, 2008 (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC) and B'nai Brith Canada announced today that the two organizations have come together to support a shipment of medicines valued at $338,400 to Sudan's war-torn Darfur.

The medicines were delivered to Darfur this month to meet the urgent medical needs of refugees in camps across Darfur. This humanitarian initiative is in response to the deteriorating situation on the ground and the growing need for basic medical supplies by the population of the war-torn region. The conflict in Darfur has left more than 200,000 dead from violence and disease, and as many ...

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