Humanitarian Crises

Blood drives this weekend

The American Red Cross announces the following blood drives: Today, Zion United Lutheran Church- Rte 209- Brodheadsville 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Elks Lodge- Washington Street- East Stroudsburg, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday,...

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Typhoon Relief Basketball Tournament

Fundraiser for the Philippine National Red Cross to support relief efforts for recent Typhoon disaster. Please sign up to play. $5/team with a minimum of 5 per team. Register at http://mitfsa.mit.edu/ To watch, $1 each day....

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Caritas forced to destroy goods intended for families in need

More than 40 boxes of products are headed to the dumpster instead of families in need. Caritas of Waco is a company that provides those in need with food, clothes and household items. However, the state health department has...

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Cumbria braces for more rain as clean-up continues

Met Office predicting up to 50mm and warns of waters rising again as county reels from evacuations and policeman's death Flood-damaged parts of the UK are bracing themselves for more heavy rain today after two days of downpours...

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Mountains melt: Helena Christensen's pictures from Peru

The supermodel turned photographer talks about her pictures documenting the environmental and human cost of climate change in her mother's native country. The exhibition of her photographs, in collaboration with Oxfam, opens to...

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Rural poor more vulnerable to climate change

Sunday, November 22, 2009 Islamabad Poverty stricken people, living in the rural and coastal areas of Pakistan, are more prone to the devastating effects of climate change. Cognisant of the situation arising out of climate...

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Turkish charities boost international aid during Muslim season of giving

It’s the Muslim season of giving, and Turkish charities are working in overdrive to spread aid across not just the country but the entire world. Running Nov. 27-30 this year, the Islamic holiday Eid al-Adha (Kurban Bayramı in...

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Feed the world? Band Aid 25 years on

It's Christmas time (nearly) and quite soon it will be impossible to switch on the radio without being bombarded by the preachy strains of a slightly shambolic Christmas song recorded 25 years ago in an effort to feed the world.

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What we will do and how you can help

The Sunday Times Children of Iraq Christmas Appeal WHAT WE WILL DO Help the children Nomura Middle East, the regional operation of the Asia-based global investment bank, has generously offered to match the first £100,000 raised...

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The children who need a helping hand

The first sight of Abdullah Suleiman isn’t for the faint-hearted: when he was six years old the bottom half of his face was blown away by a car bomb. The excruciating cost of war in Iraq is written in the crisscross lines of...

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