Sentences with phrase «humanitarian aid agency»

World Vision subscribes to the humanitarian principles of impartiality and neutrality and therefore rejects any involvement in any political, military or terrorist activities and maintains its independence as a humanitarian aid agency committed to serving the poor, especially children.

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The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has announced a C$ 1.5 - million contribution to provide humanitarian assistance and food aid to East Timor.

«It has left communities even more reliant on outside aid, stretching humanitarian agencies and local authorities to their limits.

Giovanna Reda, Head of Humanitarian Programmes for Asia, Middle East and Latin America at aid agency CAFOD, said:

With bombs pounding mostly military targets in Baghdad 15 hours a day, and a humanitarian disaster looming in the rest of the country, Iraqi Christians and international relief agency officials fear that bottled - up aid may be too little, too late for thousands.

Four Christian humanitarian aid charities are among a coalition of leading UK aid agencies which has announced a joint fundraising appeal for victims of violent conflict in Myanmar.

UN and aid agencies all agree that humanitarian relief programmes must include training on how to protect, promote and support breastfeeding, as well as how to support non breastfed children in ways that do not undermine breastfeeding.

More than 1,200 Palestinians have died during the conflict, while aid agencies - barred from entering Gaza - have warned of the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe.

The humanitarian fallout from the conflict is also huge and aid agencies say it is too big for the country to handle on its own, heaping pressure on already overstretched resources.

«It has been a new way to conduct research, that we tested the effect of nutritional supplements used mainly by aid agencies, employing very advanced research methods in remote rural areas where humanitarian organization are working, and not at the university hospitals.

It will be like a refugee camp, dependent on aid from donor agencies and international humanitarian organisations.

We've seen first hand that, although aid agencies do have some of the same training needs as corporate organizations, there are some qualities that make eLearning particularly well - suited to humanitarian training.

The instant, global reach of eLearning has helped these aid agencies respond more effectively to humanitarian crises.

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.

Agencies often see parents fundraise for or even create projects of humanitarian aid in their child's country of origin.