This article details the International Committee of the Red Cross’ response to the Biafra War and provides insight into how money was being used by the ICRC on a national scale, and how local communities were fundraising. It reported that “the American National Red Cross already has contributed $70,000 to the ICRC relief operation, and some $200,000 in medical supplies,” in what was the largest Red Cross relief operation since WWII. It also said that the Milwaukee-Waukesha-Ozaukee Red Cross chapter had recieved and donated more than $1,400 in donations to the ICRC. The ICRC estimated that more than four million refugees, 30% of which were under the age of 12, were forced from their homes by the war and most of them experienced starvation.