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Israeli NGO Sending Team to Help Refugees in Europe
(Times of Israel) Tamar Pileggi - Israeli aid agency IsraAid said Thursday that it would send a team to the European countries grappling with the influx of refugees to the Continent. The civilian disaster organization will provide food and supplies, as well as assisting authorities and local organizations to improve the psychosocial well-being of the refugees and assist in absorption efforts. "We can't not extend a hand to help the tens of thousands of asylum seekers looking for refuge after fleeing the atrocities in the Middle East and Africa," IsraAid's founding director Shachar Zehavi said. In recent years, IsraAid has sent teams to work with displaced populations and deliver humanitarian aid in Iraqi Kurdistan, South Sudan, Nepal, Kenya and Haiti.