November 5, 2007   San Diego, CA. In an effort to respond to the needs of the over 800,000 displaced flood victims the recent flooding in the Mexican state of Tabasco, the International Community Foundation (ICF) has initiated a campaign to raise monies to provide safe drinking water and direct aid to reduce the spread of cholera and other waterborne diseases through the foundation’s International Water Emergency Relief Fund which provides immediate relief to communities and victims of natural disasters in need of safe drinking water and health and sanitation systems in Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America.

All donations made to the International Water Emergency Relief Fund will go to benefit the Mexican Red Cross delegations in Tabasco to provide emergency relief to the flooding victims in those states.

"The outlook for the disaster is not short term," Daniel Goni Diaz, national president of the Mexican Red Cross.  He noted, "It would be almost impossible that we don't see some kind of disease outbreak.''

According to Richard Kiy, President & CEO of the International Community Foundation, “the Tabasco flood is the worst natural disaster in Mexico’s recent history with its long term community based impacts paralleling the 1985 Mexico, so there is a critical need for direct assistance.

Donations to the benefit Tabasco flood victims can be made to the International Community Foundation either online at http://donate.icf-xchange.org/donate.php/wateremergencyrelief or by mail to: 

International Community Foundation
11300 Sorrento Valley Road, Suite 115
San Diego, CA 92121  

About the International Community Foundation (ICF):
The International Community Foundation mission is to increase charitable giving and volunteerism across U.S. borders to benefit overseas communities and non-profit organizations.   ICF works to assist U.S. donors to make tax deductible gifts to qualified nonprofit organizations throughout the Americas and Asia with an emphasis in Mexico.

Established in 1990, the foundation’s grantmaking totaled over $3.5 million during fiscal year 2007, with 73% of its grantmaking benefiting public charities in Mexico in the areas of the environment, education, health, community development and arts and culture.   ICF’s remains committed to responding to the impacts of natural disasters in the regions that is serves with past emergency relief efforts addressing the needs of victims of the South Asia tsunami; hurricane and flood victims of Central America and Baja California, Mexico.

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