- International Relief Friendship Foundation -

The International Relief Friendship Foundation is a catalyst for social change and progress. Our service projects stress the importance of cooperative efforts for sustained long-term development. We seek to stimulate individuals and communities by offering a vision of public welfare arising from self-reliance and ethical action. IRFF supports short and long terms programs that encourage the active participation of the intended beneficiaries, who are asked to invest their own time, energy and resources for the achievement of the project. By utilizing an international network of public officials, professional, community associations and social service agencies, we activate local groups and volunteers to initiate shared-work projects that serve the public need.

We also seek to create model programs that are nurtured by the combined efforts of all sectors of the local community and are capable of sustaining themselves with a minimum of external assistance.

The purpose of the Foundation is to relieve poverty, suffering, and disease through projects under its direction. To achieve these goals the Foundation will provide financial and other humanitarian aid to the poor, aged, and disabled, or otherwise unfortunate people of the world, and to charitable associations or institutions that further the same purpose. In addition, the Foundation will conduct research, projects, hold lectures, publish appropriate materials, and convene conferences and conventions on a national and international scale which further this vision and world peace.

Furthermore, the Foundation shall do any and all lawful acts suitable, useful, desirable or proper, including but not limited to solicitation of funds, materials, medication and food, on order to achieve the above mentioned goals. IRFF, a non-governmental organization (NGO) in association with the United Nations Department of Public Information (UN-DPI) from 1990, is a public, non-profit agency that networks and cooperates with other non-profit organizations and agencies that desire to provide some level of humanitarian aid and assistance worldwide or that have a similar purpose and vision. The Foundation started in 1976 in the USA, and today it has a worldwide network of more than 80 National IRFF chapters. The coordination office for the IRFF chapters in Europe is located in Luxembourg.

See also IRFF-General Activities

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