humanitarian aid

The Pottstown Cluster of Religious Communities will particpate in a nationwide two-month-long fund-raising project that will enable it to share in a cash giveaway to 2,000 agencies across the country. By donating money and food items to the Cluster Outreach Center, the Cluster's primary site for food, clothing and emergency assistance distribution, during March and April, area residents will enable the agency to share in the giveaway that will be divided proportionately among all groups participating in  

The United Nations food agency distributed some 37,000 metric tons of food to more than 2. 7 million people in conflict-affected areas of Pakistan this month, including 1.6 million people who were displaced at the height of the crisis in 2009 and who have now returned to their original homes, UN officials said here Friday. Beneficiaries also included 200,000 people who did not move from the affected areas, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported. The March food distr  

The Sudanese ministry of humanitarian affairs revealed that it has refused to allow 15 foreign aid groups to work in the western region of Darfur on the ground that the situation there has improved. The government sponsored Sudanese Media Center (SMC) website quoted the state minister for humanitarian affairs Abdel-Baqi Al-Gailani as saying that Khartoum offered on these organizations to work in South Sudan instead. Al-Gailani called on national relief groups to "play a strong and effective role" in t

activities that act in contradiction to all regulation and laws   -Omer Hassan Al Bashir

 

Given the scale and complexity of challenges after Haiti's devastating earthquake more than two months later, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has recommended that the emergency response phase of the relief efforts continue for months to come, UN spokesman Farhan Haq said here Friday. Particularly, OCHA has urged that the "relocation of people needs to be sped up ahead of the rainy season," Haq said as he briefed reporters on OCHA's latest update on Haiti here at the UN H

relocation of people needs to be sped up ahead of the rainy season   -Farhan Haq

 

In its third relief campaign to help the victims of the earthquake in Haiti , the American-based relief organization, Life for Relief and Development (Life) in partnership with Sheikh Thani Bin Abdullah Foundation for Humanitarian Services, a major humanitarian relief organization in Qatar , is preparing to send more humanitarian and medical aid to the hard-hit Caribbean Nation. Life, in partnership with Sheikh Thani Charity which has as its motto Mercy is Grace and is abbreviated RAF (in Arabic), will b  

The LDS Church this morning provided much needed food supplies for people in the Northern and Eastern Division who have been affected by Hurricane Tomas. Acting Director DISMAC, Pajiliai Dobui is thankful for the supplies received at the Government jetty in Suva which has been loaded on government vessels to be shipped to various affected areas. He confirmed some supermarket owners have also promised to provide food supplies soon.  

It was curious timing for the report's release since the government infrastructure in Haiti was destroyed in the January 12, 2010 earthquake. Relief efforts are limping along. There are thousands of foreign NGOs on the ground, but no overall organized effort to distribute aid.  

$1 million among hunger-fighting agencies nationwide, and will match every dollar and food item donated with a percentage of their funding. All donations and pledges must be received by April 30 to be counted toward the Feinstein Challenge. "The Feinstein Challenge is one of the most successful grassroot campaigns to fight hunger in the country," said Pastor Rob Miltenberger, Executive Director of the Christian Care Rescue Mission.  

Her name is Phoebe Russell. Although I've had some amazing teachers in my more than three decades on this earth, I can truly say that Miss Russell is the best teacher I've ever had, when it comes to the true meaning of "Service." No, nothing is wrong with your eyes and no, this is not a picture of her from way back when she was youthful.

This is to recognize unlikely people in unlikely places doing extraordinary things. I think maybe Phoebe is the one of the most unlikely we've run across and perhaps doing one of the most extraordinary things   -Ed Nicholson