Sentences with phrase «international relief efforts»

The International Medical Corps (IMC) received added support this week when Google.org donated 3,000 solar chargers worth $ 216,000 to the IMC's international relief efforts.

Over the last five years, the organization has worked with some of the most well - known international relief efforts, such as Medic Mobile and Save the Children, helping them to add Bitcoin to their donation streams and running fundraising campaigns aimed at people in the Bitcoin community.

Consider an earthquake survivor: she may need both food and shelter, and it may be some days before these are provided through an international relief effort.

A report released last week by Oxfam and Save the Children argued that the international relief effort was far too slow to get going, leading to thousands of avoidable deaths.

November 17, 2013 • The death toll has edged up, but an international relief effort is delivering much needed aid to hard - hit and hard - to - reach areas.

Not exact matches

The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) will provide an aid package of C$ 150,000 to India for relief efforts in the aftermath of the cyclone that devastated India's eastern shores, Minister for International Cooperation, Maria Minna, announced yesterday.

The press also noted that the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) donated C$ 500,000 as relief aid to earthquake survivors in central Taiwan and that Canada sent a team of civil engineers with expertise in building in earthquake zones, a medical team and others to assist in the recovery effort.

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Ball Corporation has announced a $ 300,000 grant to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to expand its support of disaster preparedness and relief efforts globally through its philanthropic arm — The Ball Foundation.

So it was a relief to learn that, as news of the Trump administration's efforts to bully Canada and Mexico into an unhealthy NAFTA submission went international, Canada's chief NAFTA negotiator, Steve Verheul, publicly stated that Canada will not agree to any such labelling ban.

A team of more than 60 search and rescue responders and medical experts has been deployed to support the relief effort in Nepal, International Development Secretary Justine Greening said.

The task of coordinating international emergency relief efforts has been assumed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

At the Security Council's behest, UN disaster relief experts this week set up a base in Accra, Ghana from which to coordinate international efforts.

Then I found out that World Relief, an international nonprofit was spearheading the effort.

Adding to unrecorded thefts from the warehouses, the American portion of the loot was auctioned off in favor of war relief efforts or turned over to the United Nations International Refugee Organization.

Dozens of pets, displaced by Hurricane Irma, have been relocated out of the impacted areas of Florida thanks to a joint effort between FedEx, Direct Relief, Heart to Heart International, the Miami HEAT and the Golden State Warriors.

The International Fund for Animal Welfare was founded to protect animals and provide funding to assist the relief efforts of other organizations.

Conceived in collaboration with actor (and art collector) Ben Stiller and his eponymous philanthropic foundation to bolster relief efforts in the earthquake - ravaged Caribbean country — the poorest in the Western Hemisphere — the sale brings together 26 paintings, drawings and sculptures, most of which were made specifically for the auction and donated by 25 international artists, ranging from Neo Rauch and Karin Mamma Andersson to Glenn Ligon and Urs Fischer.

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Therefore, international climate talks, which are inherently energy talks, are by proxy humanitarian relief opportunities to engage the global community in energy - based efforts to alleviate poverty.

Lions Clubs International Foundation has surpassed US$ 2 million for disaster relief efforts in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Typhoon Yolanda).

Lions Clubs International Foundation mobilized more than US$ 21 million for Japan relief efforts, including LCIF grants and donations from Lions around the world.

On Jan. 18, with more than $ 200,000 already donated to the REALTORS ® Tsunami Relief Project, the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ® announced a partnership with Habitat for Humanity International, specifying that 100 percent of the project's funds would go toward Habitat's rebuilding efforts.