JDC distributed relief supplies in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) responded to Typhoon Haiyan by providing food, shelter, hygiene, and medical supplies and ensuring the provision of clean water and emergency aid with the support of global partners. Since 1914, nonsectarian assistance has been an essential element of JDC’s work based on the Jewish principle of tikkun olam (repairing the world). But it formalized that mission in 1986 with the establishment of the International Development Program (IDP), through which JDC provides a Jewish response to human suffering wrought by natural and manmade disasters.