Sentences with phrase «aid worker»

In one common online dating / LDR scam, the scammer pretends to be a businessman with an international construction company, or an aid worker.

Question: «Would people who travel to Japan for family or aid worker reasons be covered for Medical & Medical Evacuation?»

In an unusual case, Oshawa Children's Aid worker Khojasteh Kazemi was driving home when she was pulled over soon after getting off the Don Valley Parkway.

In this post Eugene Volokh notes an awful story from a UK Web site describing how U2 singer Bono witnessed a group of Ethiopian women pelting a breast - feeding aid worker with stones.

International U.K. has reservations about diplomatic protection for jailed aid worker in Iran, husband says, Reuters Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood leader loses appeal against life sentence, Reuters

The fascinating story of the British aid worker Emma McCune who went to work for Street Kids International in Southern Sudan in the early 1990s and who created great controversy when she married Riek Machar, a local Sundanese rebel commander.

After the cyclone hit, most aid worker visas were delayed; safe passageway to affected areas was compromised; and the media was largely barred from freely reporting on the disaster.

I spent the time partying and diving with an interesting and crazy bunch — a music producer from LA, a pilot from Guam, a natural disaster aid worker, Phil from the Gili Paradise shop, and the great team from Manta Dive.

Cartoonist Jen Sorensen once drew a strip titled «How to get Americans to care about genocide,» which included «Darfur: The Movie, starring Russell Crowe as an aid worker.»

Savill spent eight years working for the BBC and has first - hand experience as a reporter and aid worker in both countries, which lends resonance to a novel sure to appeal to fans of globally minded fiction like Girl at War and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena.

The night before we taped the Oprah show, in 2006, I met my sister Claire at her apartment in a public housing unit in Edgewater, where she lived with the three kids she'd had before age twenty - two, thanks to her ex-husband, an aid worker who'd pursued her at a refugee camp.

Based on real and imagined events set in the DNC and Uganda, this novel follows Sabine, a burned out aid worker who currently works in an animal shelter in Germany, Rose, a one armed Ugandan woman who was formerly abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army, and Lily, a young girl doing volunteer work in Uganda, and Sabine's niece.

I introduced Benoit, an aid worker from Care International, and told him my worries about security.

Osborne's novel was born out of his own experience working in the Middle East as a volunteer aid worker; while completely fictionalized, the setting that was so «tired» according to the industry is one that had a profound impact on the author's life.

Saleem's journey is dramatically affected by three girls his own age: Ekin, the Turkish farmer's daughter, Roksana, the Greek aid worker, and Mimi, the Albanian prostitute.

Whether the online humanitarian training is giving an aid worker a greater understanding of a crisis or teaching them to make decisions with lives on the line, the advances in educational technology has, perhaps, helped to save more lives across the world than in any other field.

The White Georgette Blouse is something of a cautionary tale whilst the diary of an Aid Worker is global in its perspective

Cindy Gibb (later known as Cynthia) plays American aid worker Cathy Moore, posing as a nun to flee the country, becoming part of a tragedy torn straight out of the headlines.

After the quake, an affluent couple wait for word of their missing son; needing to pay for repairs to their ruined three - story home, they move into the servants» quarters and sublease the rest of the house to an aid worker, who then becomes embroiled in local class warfare.

An American aid worker referred to only as B, played by Tim Robbins, desperately needs a long coil of rope, and is...

June 28, 2017 • «Our clinic space being compromised will directly lead to more suffering and more death in this desert,» one aid worker said.

A British aid worker kidnapped in north east Afghanistan last month has been freed after a dramatic SAS rescue mission authorised by Prime Minister David A former British aid worker Sarah Gayton, 41, from Chiswick, in west London, is now planning her wedding with a younger Syrian refugee after they fell in

British aid worker David Haines was being held hostage by Islamic State militants, after being captured in Syria in March 2013.

Piper's inscrutable coldness and unabashed celibacy pose a challenge to Eleanor Merritt, an aid worker adrift in neo-colonial charity and midlife anxiety.

A development aid worker caught a scene on video where a wave devastated parts of a small fishing village (see Fig. 1).

Arjan Erkel, a Dutch humanitarian aid worker who was the Head of Mission for the French medical aid association Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Dagestan.

Other declared contenders include former Hallam parliamentary candidate, Oliver Coppard and former aid worker, Mike Buckley, who came third in the race to succeed David Blunkett for the seat back in 2014.

He expresses sadness about the death of Christian aid worker Gayle Williams in Afghanistan yesterday.

«As somebody who has worked in the field as an aid worker I don't need to see that photograph to understand how shocking what can happen in conflict is.

President Obama has called David Cameron to offer his condolences for the death of British aid worker Linda Norgrove.

The family of murdered aid worker Margaret Hassan has blamed the British government for her death at the hands of Iraqi kidnappers.

As one Kenyan aid worker said to me: «I heard Berlusconi complaining about some people escaping Libya and arriving on an Italian island.

David Cameron spoke of the warm welcome he received from Cox when he first met her when she was working as an aid worker in Darfur in 2006 despite him being unpopular among Cox's colleagues due to his position as Conservative leader of the opposition.

Prime minister David Cameron has spoken out against the murderers of 60 - year - old British aid worker Khalil Dale, whose body was discovered yesterday.

«US policy is no food or resources to southern Somalia,» an aid worker told Perry.

Anyone who arrives in Somalia from the West, whether as an aid worker or a returned asylum seeker is considered a spy.

She is a humanitarian aid worker who recently completed three years in Afghanistan.

by Susan Marx As a humanitarian aid worker with a passion for good food, it was with trepidation that I made my move to Afghanistan in early 2007.

Tricia was an aid worker for many years in rural Bolivia and understands the challenges of living in a developing country and the frustration of repeatedly being asked for money.

I'm reminded of the Red Cross Aid worker who was brutally murdered in Pakistan last week for helping out as a doctor to heal the sick.

Rev Kuwa Shamal Abazmam Kurri who faced the death penalty or life imprisonment was acquitted of all charges in January, while Christian aid worker Jasek from the Czech Republic received a presidential pardon and left Sudan in February.

A video purporting to show the killing of American aid worker Peter Kassig, whose grandfather was a Methodist minister, has been posted on the internet.

The 26 - year - old was threatened at the end of a video showing the beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning in October after being captured by I.S. a year earlier.

Despite his Christian upbringing Mr Kassig converted to Islam after travelling to the Middle East as an aid worker.

I was «strongly urged» to leave my home, and my high paying job for 3 months and plunge myself into a disaster as an aid worker.

The relationship between Christians and Muslims in Mali is as strong as it's ever been despite ongoing extremism, according to a Catholic aid worker.

Among them: American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and American aid worker Peter Kassig.

In 2012, the family paid a «small amount» to people who claimed to be guarding the American aid worker, after receiving proof he was their captive, according to a person who worked closely with the family.

«Jihadi John» appeared in videos posted online by the Islamic State starting in August 2014 that depicted the beheadings of US journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley, US aid worker Abdul - Rahman Kassig, British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, and Japanese journalist Kenji Goto.

In Turkey, Zughbi is preparing for a lifetime of exile, but says conditions are not much better, as he struggles to make a living still as a medical aid worker.