Lutheran World Relief, a charity, is running cash-for-work schemes in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, in which workers build irrigation systems and replenish the soil.
We welcome the vocal support of the National Association of Evangelicals, Southern Baptist Convention, Focus on the Family, National Latino Evangelical Coalition, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, World Relief, Sojourners and others.
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By evangelicals at World Relief.
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After about seven years (and in keeping with their core beliefs), World Relief turned over the reins of the operation to the Nicaraguans, now led by Mario, who led Rick and me 3, 000 feet in elevation to the home and business of Claudio Martinez.
Through his World Bicycle Relief charity the ponytailed entrepreneur hopes to put millions of sub-Saharan Africans aboard special heavy-duty bikes designed to withstand the continent's rugged roads while carrying 200 pounds of cargo--enough for a weaver to bring his rugs, or a farmer to tote his produce, to market.
Blatant graft corrodes voters' support in the rich world for debt relief and aid.
Works by the fifty-one-year-old Italian have provided the art world with comic relief and news-making sensations since 1989.
"The destruction is unbelievable, " Dr. Kyi Minn of the Christian relief organization World Vision said from Yangon.
The plane, which was also carrying vital aid, later landed successfully said Andrew Catford, the Solomon Islands director for the relief agency World Vision.
Frank Williams, the Haitian director of the relief agency World Vision International, said the quake left people "pretty much screaming" all around Port-au-Prince.
Examples of the more than 30 organizations represented at the consultation include World Vision, Islamic Relief, MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, and Willow Creek Community Church.
They gave their Disney World money to the relief fund.
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Last year, Forbes described dubious accounting activities concerning valuation of deworming medicine like mebendazole and albendazole at international aid charities like Crista Ministries, Islamic Relief, World Vision and Operating Blessing.
Under those tax increases, the top tax rates for every major federal tax, except the corporate income tax, already virtually the highest in the industrialized world, with no relief in sight under Obama.
Panelist Gus Hosein, executive director of Privacy International, said that biometric technology is being used extensively in the developing world by governments and relief agencies, including in refugee camps and for voter registration purposes.
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It was only within the past week or so, he said, that he learned from an outside source of the huge discrepancy between how Direct Relief and World Help had reported the same transaction, and immediately started investigating.
And his input has yielded a great return: using the same talents that made him successful in business, Chuck Feeney has created some of the most amazing universities in the world, and pioneered incredible philanthropic efforts world wide from AIDS Relief in South Africa to Human Rights in Vietnam.
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How about wall maps, 3-D relief maps, world maps, classroom maps, topographical maps, satellite maps, special projections, even maps of the ocean floor?
If America sacrifices prestige and moral authority on the world stage to buy temporary relief, Western states know exactly how to score the transaction: civilization loses, barbarians win.
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However, both Brewer of World Help and Tighe of Direct Relief said this case involved no deworming pills but rather a long laundry list of other medicines, supplies and equipment.
After a strike, the world might breathe a sigh of relief and settle down to a few fun months of battering Israel for protecting herself and the common good: business as usual.
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They use a ticket system that allows all Catholic Relief Services employees around the world to request support and receive the help they need.
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Meanwhile in Iraq, the delegates are being briefed by UN humanitarian and other relief organisations such as the World Food Programme, World Health Organisation, UNICEF and UNHCR, before splitting-up on the last day.
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron said the news would bring a "great relief" to people across the world.
In a world of so much uncertainty, I find relief that people eventually follow their intelligence and act in their best economic interest.
So he studied a dozen disaster-relief plans, including one from the World Health Organization.
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