WASHINGTON, DC, April 13, 2007 (WAFA) - The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is pleased to announced it will honor the Palestine Children s Relief Fund (PCRF) during the Saturday, June 9, Gala Banquet Dinner at the 2007 Annual National Convention, Toward a More Perfect Union in Washington, DC.

The PCRF is a nonprofit organization founded in 1991 to address the humanitarian crisis facing Arab children living under military occupation.

In addition to treating sick and injured Arab children for free, PCRF built the first and only pediatric cardiac ICU at Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem. Over 300 babies have had life-saving open-heart surgery through volunteer missions in the last few years.

PCRF also provides other forms of humanitarian services for children in the Middle East: wheelchairs for disabled children, powdered milk for malnourished babies, eyeglasses for poor schoolchildren, sponsors for disabled kids who cannot afford their medicine, and summer camps for handicapped youth.

As a result of PCRF's work, over 700 children from Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq have been sent abroad for free care that was not available to them in their homeland. In addition, thousands more children have had highly specialized medical care by visiting foreign volunteer teams sent by PCRF to Palestine and Lebanon over the past 10 years.

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