Though the formal agenda featured talks on food relief for North Korea, Kim reportedly asked China for arms supplies.
Then, the restaurant remits the savings from serving less food to Halfsies, which donates it 60 percent to local hunger charities and 40 percent to global food relief organizations.
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The association said the transport trucks have been trying to move food and relief supplies around the country.
The aid agency provides food and relief supplies to some 80 percent of Gaza's 1.5 million people, but it says it has been unable to reach many Palestinians or assess the situation in Gaza during the Israeli military offensive.
Food and other relief supplies are running low, and the people remaining are primarily elderly or ill.
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On top of that the U.S. contributes many billions more for such UN ventures as peacekeeping, food aid, refugee relief and so forth.
Food is donated to food banks and hunger relief organizations and other organic waste products are used to make animal feed, compost and even energy creation.
Cases have also been documented of patients left crying out for help because they did not get pain relief and food and drinks being left out of reach.
Because it is easier than addressing the underlying problem, it is often tempting to prolong food aid and other relief measures beyond the limits of a humanitarian crisis.
She has also cemented her role as an international fighter for hunger relief and food education, as she founded Chefs for Humanity after the 2004 tsunami tragedy in Indonesia.
Food handouts and other relief supplies for the Mehsud refugees were stopped last month by the authorities, apparently out of concern that the aid was finding its way back to the Taliban.
He has been providing relief, including food, clothing as well as Internet and Internet-based phone access to victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, working entirely with donated labor and equipment.
Initially UNESCO Islamabad is providing relief supplies of food and hygiene products to 500 women and their families who have been participating in an ongoing cultural handicrafts and livelihood project in Swat Valley (Khyber Pakhtoonkwa).
Governments with the financial resources have been able to pursue alternative measures within the global marketplace to achieve this goal, while others are re-examining their development and trade policies, and even turning to emergency relief to overcome food crises, such as those experienced in the Horn of Africa and Sahel due to drought.
Japan also needs to ramp up disaster relief preparations, including getting food and potable water and medicine ready for quick transport to different locations in the country and getting relief services workers ready and making plans for distribution of materials and services.
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Launched in 2004, the Darden Harvest Program partners with local food banks to provide immediate hunger relief.
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Food is being distributed but the relief effort is way behind the reality of the situation, our correspondent says.
With no relief expected from rising food costs, however, the 22% rally in the share price of the chicken-wing restaurant chain could prove short-lived.
Some people are putting together "relief bags" of food and other items to distribute to those in shelters, while others were bringing canned goods, Lim said.
But beyond meeting the immediate needs of clothing, food, water and medicine, relief program workers were concerned about how the fallout of the war will affect Iraqi civilians.
This means the government has to have plans in place to get materials to people and set up disaster relief sites to distribute food and basic goods, but also has to have plans to temporarily suspend utility shut-offs and closures etc.
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The people of Haiti will have the full support of the United States in the urgent effort to rescue those trapped beneath the rubble, and to deliver the humanitarian relief -- the food, water and medicine -- that Haitians will need in the coming days.
Is there a concern about some of the organizations that are raising funds, raising food, raising clothes for the relief effort there -- is there a concern in this White House about some of the controversies around some of these organizations right now, as there's an immediate need and a long-term need?
Aureole 's superb food and quiet dining provide a welcome relief in this era of boom-box rooms.
There will, of course, be room for U.N. organizations to help with humanitarian relief, medical assistance, food distribution, etc.
To the extent possible, an occupying power also is responsible for food and medical supplies and for allowing relief organizations to operate.
Right now, he says, the government is focused on providing emergency relief such as water and food to the thousands and thousands of Haitians who lost their homes in the storms.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Baghdad has accused America and Britain of forcing the United Nations to stop a relief program that allows Iraq food and medical supplies in return for oil sales.
Although in the short run they allow emergency relief the distribution of food and medical aid, for example they can quickly become sources of instability.
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