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• Save the Children Responds to Post-Hurricane Ida Emergency in El Salvador and Nicaragua

  
  Today is a good news day — Authority: 129
  "Save the Children has dispatched emergency teams to assist with the effort to provide relief to children and families in Nicaragua and El Salvador after a devastating late-season hurricane and torrential rains wrought havoc on remote villages in the two countries." Click here for more on the relief efforts. Visit ...
  13 hours ago

• Proud homecoming for former refugee

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 110
  U.S. Navy Cmdr. Hung Ba Le salutes two Vietnamese officers during a welcoming ceremony in Danang.  DANANG, Vietnam - On the day his family’s side lost the Vietnam War, 5-year-old Hung Ba Le fled his homeland in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees. Thirty-four years later, he made an unlikely homecoming - ...
  19 hours ago

• PETE SEEGER ON ISRAELI HOUSE DEMOLITIONS ~~ PART 2

  
  Desertpeace — Authority: 544
  Pete Seeger’s role in ending Israeli house demolitions By Nir Hasson Jeff Halper with American folk legend Pete Seeger in his home in New York. (Elyse Crystal) Anyone who owns a radio probably knows the song “Turn, Turn, Turn” (To everything there is a season) very well. A ...
  23 hours ago

• IKEAs Soft Toy Aid 2009 Begins

  
  Giulia Geranium — Authority: 419
  For every soft toy you purchase from now until December 24, 2009, $1 will be donated to UNICEF and Save the Children. (See here for other countries currency donations.) This years campaign tag line is $1 is a Fortune . And so it is. This year, the soft toys got together & made a darling video . ...
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• PETE SEEGER ON ENDING ISRAELI HOUSE DEMOLITIONS

  
  Desertpeace — Authority: 544
  Pete Seeger’s role in ending Israeli house demolitions By Nir Hasson American folk legend Pete Seeger performing at his 90th birthday in New York in May. (AP) The banjo-playing Seeger, 90, is considered one of the pioneers of American folk music. He is ...
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• No More Deaths

  
  angelawd — Authority: 119
  Regardless of the fact that immigrants enter the country illegally, we should not let them die of thirst or wounds along the way. No More Deaths is a humanitarian organization bringing aid to immigrants crossing the US border into the Sonoran Desert. Heres a description of the work they do.
  3 days ago

• Students unite for documentary activism

  
  NEED - The Humanitarian Magazine — Authority: 119
  In 1999, Courtney Spence was a sophomore in Duke University. After doing research and getting involved in a documentary media program at Duke, Courtney was particularly struck by social activism and implementing change through documentary media. In combining the two ideas, she founded Students of the World . The ...
  3 days ago

• Torbay MP Adrian Sanders asks about humanitarian aid in Parliament this week

  
  People's Republic of South Devon The Peoples Republic of South Devon — Authority: 140
  Torbay MP, Adrian Sanders has been asking about humanitarian aid in Parliament this week. It wasn’t the only written question he submitted, with other issues including crime figures by children in care , and the budget of the Probation Services . The question he asked on humanitarian aid focused on Rwanda . ...
  3 days ago

• United Nations Takes Relocation Steps For Its Officials In Afghanistan

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 600
  The United Nations staff and officials are in the process of being relocated as part of a security effort after the devastating Taliban attack on the UN officials, that left 5 people dead. The majority of United Nations workers in the region are either security experts or humanitarian aid workers. Even with the ...
  4 days ago

• One of Sudan’s Lost Boys visits University of Tampa, shares harrowing story

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 110
  Valentino Achak Deng’s suffering led eventually to his moving book, which made it possible for him return to help his native village. Above is the Marial Bai Secondary School he built. TAMPA - The 7-year-old boy ran as militiamen destroyed his village. He trekked through the wilderness for hundreds of miles, ...
  4 days ago

• Praying for More Unemployed Grave-Diggers in Afghanistan

  
  Mountains of our Minds - Afghanistan — Authority: 91
  The lines between aid agencies and the military have become blurred in Afghanistan, Bamiyan where New Zealand troops are doing humanitarian work alongside their military duties. Photo: Bob McKerrow The earthquake in West Sumatra has occupied every waking moment of my life in the past five weeks and has ...
  5 days ago

• Finding Freedom

  
  NEED - The Humanitarian Magazine — Authority: 119
  This photo essay was submitted by Brennan O’Connor / NOMAD Photos. Brennan O’Connor is the Southeast Asian adviser for The Peoples of the World and president of NOMAD Photos agency, a Canadian cooperative of photojournalists dedicated to using the economic efficiencies and social power of a ...
  6 days ago

• Compassion Responds To Ethiopian Famine

  
  WordJourney Magazine — Authority: 113
  With millions facing starvation, Compassion International continues to provide immediate support for Ethiopian children while contributing funds to assist small businesses. Compassion International, the Christian child development organization with more than one million children under its care, is responding to the ...
  6 days ago

• Iraqi refugees in New Jersey are finding a new kind of struggle

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 110
  Saif Alnasseri was a prominent pharmacist in Iraq, and now he lives in Plainfield with his wife, mother and daughter, Sarah, 3, pictured here reading a story to her father. He is struggling to make ends meet while working as a Pharmacist’s assistant at Walgreens making $10 an hour. (David Gard/New Jersey Local News ...
  1 week ago

• Valentine’s Day Card Contest Launched by Save the Children to Engage Kids on Childhood Poverty in U.S.

  
  Today is a good news day — Authority: 129
  "In an effort to promote kids unity as a force against the childhood poverty crisis in the United States, Save the Children and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) today announced a Valentines Day art contest for students across America. The contest and rules are live today at ...
  1 week ago

• Over 532.4 metric tons of humanitarian aid was flown into Idonesian region of Padang-Pariaman after the earthquake .

  
  WERI CHANNEL — Authority: 422
    Padang mission ends     The ADF’s month-long mission to help those affected by a major earthquake that struck the Indonesian city of Padang has finished. READ THE FULL  ARTICLE :   Mission ends Among the many tasks achieved by the Australian contingent; 1.3 million litres of water were ...
  1 week ago

• Shipping Container Health Clinics For Developing Countries

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 745
  Good design has the potential to provide better education, access to safe water and improved health care. Take for instance our very own Emily Pilloton of Project H Design , whose design projects are bringing vast improvements to their surrounding communities. Along the same line, a new non-profit initiative called ...
  1 week ago

• Multiple Sclerosis in Palestine

  
  NEED - The Humanitarian Magazine — Authority: 119
  This photo essay was submitted by Rajiv Kapoor. Profiles of Safyya, Tariq and Shadi courtesy of MSPF . Health care in Palestine does not meet the needs of its population. In addition to receiving sometimes inadequate health care, multiple sclerosis (MS) patients are often isolated. Multiple Sclerosis ...
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• Falun Gong Refugees Find Comfort in New Zealand

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 110
  There’s a legend in China that the udumbara flower blossoms only once every 3,000 years.[Sanpu He, Falun Gong Practitioner]: “I saw two bunches of small white flowers on the window and iron bar. The flowers were very small and had long branches.” In Buddhism, the flower symbolizes a blessing from the heavens. ...
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• English classes help build confidence among refugees from Bhutan

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 110
  Refugee students attend an English class at one of the camps in eastern Nepal. (Source: UNHCR) BELDANGI II CAMP, Nepal, October 21 (UNHCR) - At an age when most people are enjoying retirement, Jay has started going to school to prepare for his future. The 64-year-old is among the more than 9,000 refugees from ...
  1 week ago

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