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Saint Mary's Albanian Orthodox Church inWorcester has had an over-whelming response to itscall...
After it held a press conference in early Aprilto let people know about its efforts to help theKosovar refugees, so many people called theirhotline offering help that the church had toinstall five more phone lines. Since then, LouisR. Pero, president of Saint Mary's, estimates thathis church has raised...
...center is staffed almost entirely byvolunteers from the Albanian Orthodox Church ofthe Annunciation, located just a few blocks away,and even the use of the former water departmentbuilding was a donation from one of thecongregation members...
Saint Mary's has earmarked some of the donatedmoney for 10,000 pairs of underwear, since so fewpeople have donated this desperately neededarticle of clothing. Members of the church arealso contacting pharmaceutical companies to try tobuy medicine at wholesale prices...
Most of the money and material donations fromboth churches will go to the New England AlbanianRelief Organization (NEARO), with which many ofthe church members are affiliated. NEARO, whichhas been shipping supplies to Albania since itsfounding in 1990, sent 400,000 pounds of suppliesto Albania by boat last Wednesday, according toPero...