Friday,11 March  2011

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New  Canaan, Connecticut - March 11, 2011

---Thousands Wounded and Dead

---Street-Fighting Creating Dire Conditions

In response to escalating violence between  anti-government militias and forces loyal to President Ghadafi and  deteriorating health and security conditions, Bridge Foundation announced that  it  is sending essential drugs and medical supplies to Tunisia. News sources  report more than 1500 people have been killed with thousands wounded as  fighting worsens throughout northern Libya. United Nations'  representatives  estimate 170,000 have fled to neighboring Tunisia, tens of thousands more to  Egypt.

Women, children and elderly are affected very quickly as  civil infrastructure breaks down. The international community is responding to  increasing numbers of refugees and those seeking safety. Humanitarian  organizations are the only source of assistance according to US State  Department reports. Normal government services have disappeared while Ghadafi  forces continue attacks across the country.

"Bridge Foundation is seeking donations to help it  continue to supply vitally needed medicines," stated Bridge Foundation Director,  Stephen Skakel.

Bridge  Foundation, the New Canaan,Connecticut based humanitarian relief organization  announced it is responding to the humanitarian crisis resulting  in thousands of refugees fleeing the Egyptian and Tunisian borders. 

Bridge Foundation is planning to send  veteran relief workers familiar with the region to assess the situation and  oversea incoming shipments of humanitarian supplies.

The  ongoing-armed conflict between anti-government protesters and Col. Muammarel-Qaddafi’s forces has spread throughout the country in recent days creating amass of refugees in neighboring Egypt and Tunisia. 

The UN  Refugee Agency reports that among the Egyptians, Tunisians and other nationals  attempting to return to their homelands, at least 55,000 are crossing into  Egypt and 40,000 are crossing into Tunisia, with many others moving into two  transit camps that have sprung up along the Libyan border. 

Bridge  Foundation was founded in 2002  and has provided emergency aid to  Afghanistan, Iraq, Congo, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Indonesia,Jamaica and Lebanon, Pakistan, Burundi, South Sudan, Liberia, Syria, Myanmar,Cameroon, Uganda and Ethiopia. Bridge Foundation has also assisted domestically  in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, Louisiana and West  Virginia.  Bridge Foundation is an IRS registered  501©(3) tax exempt  organization.