Sentences with phrase «emergency aid agencies»
Over many years, Wyss has provided emergency aid agencies and nonprofit groups with rapid initial death and damage estimates and maps in the hours or days following big earthquakes.
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Some 20 countries and major aid agencies rely on the tablets in emergency and disaster scenarios; the tablets have agricultural applications too.
More than 60,000 people have registered for disaster aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after widespread flooding hit the state, according to Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards» office.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has yet to authorize full reconstruction aid for Puerto Rico to repair its power grid and other infrastructure — assistance given to the US Virgin Islands two weeks after Maria and to Texas 10 days after Hurricane Harvey.
I would like to acknowledge what is a long list: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Office of the New York Attorney General, the New York State Department of Financial Services, the New York Legal Assistance Group, Staten Island Legal Services, the Legal Aid Society, MFY Legal Services, various bar associations, New York City Department of Small Business Services, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Housing Services of Staten Island and the Northfield Local Community Development Corporation.
The request, expected to be swiftly approved by Congress, would add $ 7.4 billion to rapidly dwindling Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster aid coffers and $ 450 million to finance disaster loans for small businesses.
The request, expected to be swiftly approved by Congress, would add $ 7.4 billion to rapidly dwindling Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster aid coffers...
Christian relief agency Tearfund is sending emergency aid to several counties in the region following the worst monsoon rains in 50 years.
The US Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is under pressure to change its policies to better provide aid for places of...
Cuomo's man visits Stony Point, promises up to $ 300,000 per home, but says those who already agreed to SBA loans are stuck with that aid Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D - Westchester / Rockland) this week announced that local governments in Westchester and Rockland Counties have so far received $ 35,338,879 in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Public Assistance grants to -LSB-...]
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to immediately mobilize personnel and resources to come to the aid of the victims of the flooding in Benue State.
Singh, under questioning from Mirabile earlier in the week, testified — briefly — that he had inflated losses that his businesses suffered after superstorm Sandy by filing false documents with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which aids local governments recovering from natural disasters.
Cuomo, in his prepared remarks released last night, said he plans today to urge President Obama to issue a disaster declaration for the area and free up aid through the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
«God bless FEMA,» Singh responds, referencing the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the aid it provides to local governments recovering from natural disasters.
It'll mean a name change for AIDS Community Resources, but more importantly, Executive Director Michael Crinnen says it will allow the agency do what it does best — coordinate care for sufferers of a chronic disease, and hopefully keeping them out of the emergency room.
U.S. Rep. Grace Meng co-wrote a bill that would allow houses of worship affected by Hurricane Sandy to receive Federal Emergency Management Agency aid.
The study was sponsored by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health, President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, U.S. Agency for International Development, Rockefeller Foundation, Medtronic, Merck Foundation, and BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company).
He had been exploring the impact of HIV / AIDS in New York City, but the storm inspired him to lead a caravan of about 30 researchers, graduate students, and health workers to visit temporary housing sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in Mississippi and Louisiana.
Yet churches, synagogues and mosques are routinely denied aid by the Federal Emergency Management Agency when it comes time to repair or rebuild their...
To help aid agencies respond effectively to a food crisis in Somalia, a system was established in 2004 to precisely define and analyse local food insecurity, using a scale consisting of five categories: None / Minimal, Stressed, Crisis, Emergency, and Humanitarian Catastrophe / Famine.
«Many people (usually women) who would qualify financially for legal aid are advised by social service agencies not to apply if they are not facing a family emergency covered by LSS.»
Received emergency and non-emergency calls from the public and law enforcement agencies via telephone, radio systems and computer - aided dispatch (CAD) systems
Over 3,000 fire victims have applied for individual assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which has provided displaced Californians with $ 6 million in rental funds and other aid.