Category: How We Serve

Connecting Past and Present

June 12, 2018

On a recent visit to headquarters by IOCC Georgia Project Manager Zaza Matcharashvili (pictured, center), Executive Director and CEO Dean Triantafilou (left) pulled out this memento ...

Baltimore Needs Your Help

June 6, 2018

Urgent Action volunteers are urgently needed in Maryland

A Father’s Personal Triumph

May 25, 2018

Back in Syria, Mohammad—a father of seven—worked as a mechanic. He had completed a bachelor’s degree and held a good job. But when conflict broke out in Syria ...

Seeing Long-Term Impact

May 24, 2018

IOCC met Samirawit in 2013, when she was 10 and living with her grandmother in Debre Markos. She received her first pair of shoes through an IOCC project to raise awareness ...

New Hope for Amele

May 24, 2018

When Amele was 16, she noticed that her feet began swelling. The skin on her legs and feet started to itch and crack, and though she thought it would stop eventually, it didn’t. Her family ...

Greece: Bountiful Harvests, Brighter Tomorrows

May 24, 2018

Giant beans are laid out to dry at the agricultural association Agroka in the village of Lakommata, outside Kastoria, Greece.

Students excited to see new school building

Dreaming Big in Rural Uganda

April 30, 2018

Meet 5 students from the Lwemiyaga school in Uganda who are dreaming big because of your support.

Greece: Local Milk On Demand

April 23, 2018

Fresh milk straight from the farm, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. That's the idea behind Apo Proto Cheri, or Firsthand

IOCC/OCF Real Break Homebuild

April 23, 2018

The seventh annual IOCC/OCF Real Break took place March 12–17 in the New Orleans area. Ten college students from across the US ...

Albania: Training Rural Beekeepers

April 23, 2018

These members of a women’s beekeeping association are experienced in beekeeping, one of the area’s traditional economic activities. Project participants ...