Archive for the ‘Aid / Disasters’ Category
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
A lethal mix of drought, expanding conflict, rising food and energy prices, disease, and high poverty is pushing children and their families in the Greater Horn of Africa to the brink of disaster. Actions and policies are needed now to avert grave human suffering. Ethiopia and Somalia are the worst ...
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) called on G8 leaders who will gather next week in Japan to take bold decisions to adequately finance food aid and nutrition programmes directed at young children. With the crisis of malnutrition contributing to between three and five ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
The UN World Food Programme is rapidly expanding operations in Haiti, reaching more hungry people thanks to a US$23 million allocation from funds raised through the organisation's high food price appeal. WFP is currently assisting more than 800,000 people in Haiti, including ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
A massive airlift of the ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) Plumpy'Nut arrived in Addis Ababa last night as part of UNICEF's emergency response to meet the urgent needs of severely malnourished children in drought-affected areas of Ethiopia. The Government of Ethiopia estimates that 75,000 children in over 100 drought-affected districts ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) expressed alarm at the deportation of approximately 500 Zimbabweans, including women and children, from a detention center in Musina, South Africa, at the border with Zimbabwe. South African authorities in Musina told MSF that they had increased patrols along ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
The Fourth of July weekend is coming and the American Red Cross urges everyone to make giving blood part of their holiday plans. The number of people giving blood is down, but the need still exists. On any given day, an average of 39,000 units of red blood cells ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced an agreement with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea that paves the way for a rapid expansion of its food assistance to more than 5 million hungry people throughout the country. WFP ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
"The United Nations Foundation joins the international community in expressing its deep disappointment that the administration has decided - for the seventh, straight year - to withhold the $39.7 million authorized by Congress to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the world's leading voice on sexual and reproductive health and ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
The people of Somalia are currently facing a massive humanitarian crisis with unmet critical medical needs. In May alone, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams working in the Mogadishu suburbs of Hawa Abdi and Afgooye treated more than 2,500 children suffering from acute malnutrition, with admissions to MSF nutritional ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
As firefighters continue to battle more than 1,000 blazes across California, American Red Cross volunteers are providing shelter, meals and comfort for those displaced by the fires. Moreover, the American Red Cross is working closely with the Office of Emergency ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it is convening a group of national experts to develop recommendations on protecting, preserving and restoring individual and community mental health in catastrophic events.Studies show that mental health and substance use concerns increase during and after disasters and other ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
An estimated 800 ethnic Lao Hmong refugees were forcibly returned to Laos by the Thai government on Sunday, June 22, and the Thai authorities have stated publicly that they intend to proceed over the coming days with further repatriations to Laos from among the remaining 6,700 refugees in the Huai ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
As the people of Darfur face the annual hunger gap - the period leading up to the harvest in October - the humanitarian community in Sudan is warning that limited time remains to safeguard against an increasingly precarious situation. Underlying this potential crisis is the continued insecurity in the region, ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
With an estimated cost of at least $15 million for the relief efforts in the Central United States, the American Red Cross continues to seek donations for its Disaster Relief Fund. The relief organization is extremely grateful for the approximately $8 million that has been pledged and received for disaster ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is taking several steps to assess the impact on the 2008 crop acreage from the impact of the extraordinary rainfall and flooding in the Midwest. NASS will release the 2008 Acreage report as scheduled on June 30 at 8:30 ...
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