Sentences with phrase «aid groups»

About 90 percent of the interest is used to help four legal aid groups serving the poor.

So far, just over $ 190 million has been pledged, which will be directed to international aid groups whose funding is threatened.

A top priority for aid groups is distributing basic medicines to manage chronic conditions like diabetes.

For water projects, which support whole communities, the government welcomes the help of aid groups.

Numerous research studies have shown that mutual aid groups play a significant role in the process of recovery.

But efforts by aid groups to persuade communities to adopt these technologies have often failed.

The tools help governments and aid groups improve their performance in getting water to those who need it, and the customers gain access to information about their water supplies.

Under the Access to Civil Justice Act, a portion of court filing fees are given to legal aid groups in North Carolina — $ 1.8 million per year.

On Sunday, Trump suggested on Twitter that there would be a «big price» to pay after medical aid groups reported that dozens of civilians, including many children and women, were killed by poison gas in the besieged rebel - held town.

Two aid groups said they have had to turn people away, one has had to intensify its fundraising, two have had to extend their operating hours to meet demand, while six who help to house new arrivals are struggling to find accommodation for them.

The Preemptive Love Coalition, a Christian aid group based in Mosul, continues to feed and care for those who can not escape.

President Donald Trump on Sunday had directly criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar Assad over a suspected poison - gas attack against the rebel - held town of Douma that local aid groups blamed on the Syrian government.

An American Christian aid group reported that the U.N. camps are «dangerous» places where ISIS, militias, and gangs traffic in women and threaten men who refuse to swear allegiance to the caliphate.

Signatories include leaders from humanitarian aid groups including World Vision USA, World Relief, Compassion International, Living Water International, Food for the Hungry, as well as denominational leaders from the Southern Baptist Convention, Assemblies of God, Wesleyan Church, Church of Nazarene, the Anglican Church in North America, the Christian Reformed Church in North America, and the National Association of Evangelicals.

One aid group working in Haiti is turning to SMS text messaging to ensure Haitians are keeping their drinking water free of cholera - causing bacteria

Host Arun Rath talks to David Gazashvili, the deputy emergency director for the food aid group CARE.

Or, for between $ 15 and $ 40, Christmas shoppers can buy a duck, mosquito nets, cattle manure and literacy classes through aid group Oxfam Australia's Unwrapped program to help those less fortunate.

While AIDS groups are increasingly willing to criticize Cuomo, the press conference may have betrayed some reluctance to do that on the part of some groups that co-authored the plan.

But some of the findings in the report are disturbing, particularly given how aggressively many aid groups promoted their work using the wrenching imagery from the shattered neighborhoods around Port - au - Prince.

In contrast, such politically neutral refugee aid groups as the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees purposely located their Honduran relief camps at least 33 miles from the border to avoid involvement with the hostilities.

Donors have a right and a responsibility to ask aid groups how they will be using those donations, and what will be done with donations raised in excess of the need.

After its former CEO Marjorie Hill was forced out amid controversy, the nonprofit AIDS group's board initially hoped to tap former City Council Speaker and mayoral candidate Christine Quinn to become its next CEO, multiple sources within the organization told DNAinfo New York.

AIDS group want to enact HASA For All, which is pending in the City Council, that will allow the city's HIV / AIDS Services Administration (HASA) to serve people who are HIV - positive, but have not progressed to AIDS, in addition to those with an AIDS diagnosis, who are already served.

Washington (CNN)-- The Rev. Franklin Graham spends most of his time running an international aid group called Samaritan's Purse.

Within about 18 months, after viewing several hundred videos a day posted by various rebel groups and other sources — which he verifies through a combination of first - hand research in Jane's Digest and other publications, along with a growing network of experts, both in the Middle East and elsewhere — Brown Moses had become an indispensable resource for everyone from aid groups to New York Times writer and former Marine CJ Chivers.

He is a pygmy and runs a small aid group here in town.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE AIDS groups gathered on the steps of City Hall to demand that the de Blasio administration contribute $ 10 million towards the Plan to End AIDS in the city budget for the fiscal year that begins on July 1.

Cash donations are the best, most cost - efficient way to help aid groups deliver these life - saving supplies quickly, purchase supplies close to the disaster zone when possible and replenish their stocks in preparation for future disasters.

Aid groups also warn the weather will heighten the risk of conflict and disease, according to Reuters.

Christian aid groups responsible for resettlement mourned and criticized the president's decision to stop accepting any refugees into the United States for the next four months.

The group includes Christian, Jewish and Muslim aid groups, as well as clergy.

Lawyer Li Guisheng told China Aid a group of his clients have been «accused of being cult leaders, gathering secretly in different regions of Yunnan, doing missionary work, recruiting new members, spreading apocalypse rumors, rebuilding Three Grades of Servant's buildings, accommodating secret gatherings, and fostering new religious leaders».

«As more combatants from Boko Haram have been hiding within the civilian population, the line between who is civilian and who is not has been blurred,» Agnes Bjorn, a manager aid group for Plan International, told The New York Times.

The leaders of America's top evangelical aid groups and denominations urged Congress today to reject proposed cuts to foreign aid in a letter signed by more than 100 prominent Christians, including 2 of the 6 clergy who prayed at President Donald Trump's inauguration.

This can be achieved with careful application of fertiliser, though this rarely occurs and soil depletion has become a major problem prompting aid groups to encourage more fertiliser use!.

Junior Ring from Little is also makes for perfect gift for the little ones and can also be used in playschool by teachers for aiding group activity.

Humanitarian strategy will need to develop vital market - based interventions that get cash, loans, food and essential health and education supplies into the local markets where small informal aid groups, host - families and displaced people can make the most of them beyond excessive government interference.

It would also open up members of the Pakistani Taliban, and anyone who aids the group, to criminal prosecution.

Aid groups claim up to 200 protestors died when troops began using lethal force, but the government claims rioters themselves killed more than 20 people.

One of the 10 members of a medical aid group found shot to death in Afghanistan was an optometrist from Delmar.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE With the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, AIDS groups believe they can win long - sought legislation that would cap rent at 30 percent of income for people with AIDS who receive housing assistance.

In order to aid the group achieve effective mobilization, the governor announced the release of N9 million for the exercise across the 18 council areas of the state.

AIDS groups join others in criticizing how $ 20 billion over five years became just $ 570 million in fiscal «17

Executive Director of the New York State School Boards Association Tim Kremer says that's a far cry from the $ 2 billion in additional state aid his group requested.

But the government does not want aid groups building latrines, which usually benefit just one family.

Aid groups like PIH immediately erected specialized cholera clinics with bleach hand - and shoe - washing stations; the smell of bleach still pervades the clinics.

Few aid groups — PIH being an exception — focus on much beyond relieving immediate needs.

Clinton's speech comes as U.N. agencies and international aid groups step up calls for emergency assistance funding to the more than 12.4 million people affected by the drought.