Sentences with phrase «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.

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

Sometimes they pose as aid workers, bringing medical relief to impoverished areas.

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

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.

«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.

The numbers are expected to climb as aid workers comb through the wreckage left behind.

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.»

Not exact matches

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.

Chris Martin, a care aid who chairs the HEU local at Nanaimo Seniors Village, has filed a grievance against what she saw as escalating harassment of union workers there.

The good news: Aid workers have the lessons of Katrina to fall back on as they try to help the thousands of people displaced by this storm.

According to Park, they are aiding in job safety by helping workers track sleep and activity levels, as well as improving office culture by getting employees to meet their fitness goals together.

Government aid and insurance payments will assist in efforts to rebuild homes, vehicle sales are likely to rise as cars are replaced, and workers will be needed to aid in construction.

The satellites and technology also help aid workers as they coordinate relief efforts.

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.

Lancaster indicts African governments but also faults the aid system, pointing to serious but ultimately secondary matters, such as the absurdity of expatriate aid workers doing jobs that Africans could do themselves if their governments could afford to hire them.

But the outrage seems directed at least as much against South Korean Christian aid workers and missionaries as against the Taliban.

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.

As this passage suggests, A Bed for the Night documents the shift among humanitarian aid workers from neutrality to advocacy.

It's as if there's a deadly virus at the center of it and we simply band - aid the surface sores and send the workers back into a very contaminated environment.

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.

The management of the Kairbetta Estate provides free medical aid for all family members of workers and pluckers as well as community - members who don't otherwise have access to healthcare.

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Participants from various IBFAN organizations, aid agencies, non-governmental organizations, social service organizations, health care workers, policy makers and representatives from WHO and UNICEF, discussed the protection of breastfeeding and the establishment of breastfeeding cultures as vital components in measures dealing with this topic.

If the Somali women in Shaffer's piece view working as instrumental, so does the neoliberal governmentality agenda, according to Elisabeth Olivius, who examines humanitarian aid workers in refugee camps in Thailand and Bangladesh.

Finally, there are difficult decisions that individual aid workers must make during day - to - day operations that involve interacting with the local populations, such as determining which patients to prioritize during medical triage.

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

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said at least six ambulance workers, and at least 13 other aid workers, have been killed as they attempted to rescue the wounded and collect the dead.

The proposals within the collection echo the sentiment of David Cameron's «big society» agenda and pushes for the government to encourage workers in the private and public sectors to form mutuals in order to aid what its authors described as a «broken» economy.

WHEREAS, As part of a comprehensive approach to train the next generation of workers, to aid them in obtaining gainful employment, and to create a pool of skilled workers without whom companies will not be able to operate, it is desirable and necessary to provide enhanced focus upon entry level training programs such as the apprenticeship program required by Local Law 2 - 200As part of a comprehensive approach to train the next generation of workers, to aid them in obtaining gainful employment, and to create a pool of skilled workers without whom companies will not be able to operate, it is desirable and necessary to provide enhanced focus upon entry level training programs such as the apprenticeship program required by Local Law 2 - 200as the apprenticeship program required by Local Law 2 - 2006;

While hard - pressed localities will see no relief in the short term from Tier 6, they will be affected by loss of state services, downsizing and consolidation of vital facilities, along with other aid reductions and a further erosion of their middle class as workers get squeezed or have their jobs eliminated.

The session finally began in earnest after lunch, even as the Assembly speaker, Carl E. Heastie, a Bronx Democrat, held a celebratory news conference with reporters, promoting victories on increasing the minimum wage, establishing paid family leave for workers and increasing aid to schools.

The governor was reminded by a top aid that he and the legislature approved a new pension tier, so that future workers will receive fewer benefits, saving the state, as well as local governments, billions of dollars in costs in coming decades.

Buffalo Niagara will never climb out of poverty as long as women make less than men, minorities can't get business and fulltime workers need public aid just to survive.

McFadden, who was first made shadow Europe minister in October 2014 by Ed Miliband, added: «Me saying terrorists are entirely responsible for their own actions, that no one forces anyone to kill innocent people in Paris, to blow up the London underground, to behead innocent aid workers in Syria... He clearly interpreted that as an attack on him.

«He clearly feels that me saying... that no one forces anyone to kill innocent people in Paris, to blow up the London underground, to behead innocent aid workers in Syria, that when I say they are entirely responsible for that... he clearly interpreted that as an attack on him,» he told Radio 4's Today programme.

Polygyne queens, in contrast, aren't considered as robust, fat, and «queenly» as monogynes, and they need worker aid to set up new colonies.

«Having an accurate overview of how different regions of countries are connected by human movement aids effective disease control planning and helps target resources, such as treated bed nets or community health workers, in the right places.

I am traveling with a team of aid workers just as major combat is drawing to a close.

Health care officials and aid workers attempting to trace the progression of the Ebola virus disease outbreak that has claimed more than 2,800 lives so far (pdf) have come to rely heavily on a handful of disease - monitoring Web sites that act as pivotal hubs for processing information.

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Naomie Harris is Angela, the social worker who aids Gyllenhaal and his offspring, while Rachel McAdams is Billy's wife Maureen, and Forest Whitaker is set as Titus «Tick» Willis, who retired from the ring after losing an eye and trains younger fighters.

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

After Spring immerses us in the rhythms of the camp, the role of the aid workers, and the daily lives of two families as they contemplate an uncertain future.

; MEN AND CHICKEN, Anders Thomas Jensen's dark, twisted and extremely animalistic comedy as black as pitch, but with the sweetest heart, starring Mads Mikkelsen; Fernando León de Aranoa's black comedy A PERFECT DAY, a freewheeling tale centering on two veteran aid workers starring Benico Del Toro and Tim Robbins; the International Premiere of Brendan Cowell's debut RUBEN GUTHRIE about an advertising exec trying to quit the booze, which spikes social observations with dark, wounded humour and the European Premiere of Japanese auteur / icon Takeshi Kitano's latest comedy, RYUZO AND HIS SEVEN HENCHMEN, about a group of elderly, retired Yakuza who reteam to take revenge on a younger rival gang.

They are as much war correspondents as they are humanitarian aid workers, and much of what the world knows about crimes against humanity is due to their reporting.

Deux jours, une nuit (Two Days, One Night, Jean - Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2014) Aided by a searing lead performance by Marion Cotillard, the Dardennes depict the lowly late capitalist worker's existence as one of utter vulnerability and desperation.

Charlize Theron and Javier Bardem star as beautiful humanitarian aid workers who fall in and out of love across various war - torn regions.

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.

Projects such as the Humanitarian Leadership Academy and the Norwegian Refugee Council's Frontline Humanitarian Toolbox, designed specifically for aid workers in Syria, are working to boost capacity via online courses.