Sentences with phrase «of aid groups»

«On the island, there are 700,000 children and this is now a week that they have been without power, food, running water, access to telephones — in really scorching temperatures,» said Negin Janati of the aid group Save the Children, which has started setting up «child friendly» centers for child care and children's supplies in San Juan.

Not exact matches

«An excise tax on the endowments of some private colleges and universities, regardless of how many or how few institutions it affects, is a remarkably bad idea that takes money that would otherwise be used for student aid, research, and faculty salaries and sends it to the Department of the Treasury to finance corporate tax cuts,» said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, a higher education trade group.

In the past two years, aided by a grant from the Small Business Administration, the network has helped a niche - group of energy entrepreneurs secure some $ 32 million in federal contracts and create an estimated 400 jobs.

He traveled to Haiti with a group of statisticians to survey residents so that aid organizations could better meet their needs.

Aid groups report that more than six million people have died in the past decade as casualties of the war, and yet the conflict goes largely unnoticed to the Western world.

Summary: «When a group of Burmese refugees join the congregation, the pastor of a failing Anglican church attempts to aid them by planting crops and enlisting the help of the community.»

The U.N. and aid groups are warning of a humanitarian catastrophe.

President Donald Trump on Sunday had directly criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar Assad over a suspected poison - gas attack against the rebel - held town of Douma that local aid groups blamed on the Syrian government.

The end state the group agrees on is to get MREs into the hands of as many starving people as possible and to provide at least minimal medical aid to the sickest members of the population.

Together, this group has amassed more than 40 million followers that will hear about this new social campaign and about how they can help stop the spread of HIV and AIDS.

«It's going to be a hard sell that this activity was either concerted or for mutual aid or protection, rather than simply venting or pitting one group of workers against the others, which does not sound very mutual,» Morantz said.

He previously served on the board of directors of AsianMedia Group LLC, Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation, Communications and Power Industries, Inc., Diamond Triumph Auto Glass, Inc., HITS, Inc., Liberty Group Publishing, Inc., MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc., Phoenix Scientific, Inc., Rite Aid Corporation, Sagittarius Brands, and VCA Antech, Inc..

The power of «group think» really does begin with the kool - aid organizations drink.

But Meadows, who leads a group of hard - liners that has frequently frustrated House Republican leaders, said attaching Harvey aid to a debt - ceiling increase would be a «terrible idea» that would be «conflating two very different issues.»

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.

[355] During the initial years of the Obama administration, the U.S. increased military cooperation with Israel, including increased military aid, re-establishment of the U.S. - Israeli Joint Political Military Group and the Defense Policy Advisory Group, and an increase in visits among high - level military officials of both countries.

«Many of us required the help of our group doctor, who traveled with us to provide oxygen, medications and first aid.»

End - of - Life Care Advocacy Group Praises Congressional Leaders for Protecting D.C. Medical Aid - in - Dying Law

In an hour - long, understated speech, punctuated by humor, Clinton called on aid groups to continue their efforts to champion diversity and the positive forces of interdependence while seeking the most effective ways to assist communities in the world's poorest places.

ChildFund, one of the world's largest children's aid groups, is now accepting bitcoin through BitPay.

The Facts: Advocates from student groups, including the Canadian Federation of Students, the leadership of B.C.'s academic research universitiesand reportershave notedthat B.C. needs to improve its student aid programs.

Ken Griffin's hedge fund Citadel Investment Group plans to sell a ton of its shares in E * Trade Financial (ETFC), a company it had aided in the past.

The Trump administration said Sunday that it wants Congress to attach aid for victims of Hurricane Harvey to a bill that would increase the federal debt limit, a move that clashes with an influential group of House conservatives who have warned GOP leaders not to connect the two funding initiatives.

Varoufakis sought to squeeze aid from the rest of the euro area accepting the full slate of EU demands, a gambit rejected by the group's leader, Jeroen Dijsselbloem.

Armed men abducted a German nurse working for the International Committee of the Red Cross on Wednesday evening from a compound in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, the aid group said Thursday.

If Mr. Baer is not familiar with individuals and groups who vigorously promote the goals of the AIDS lobby as described in the editorial, perhaps Atlanta is more culturally isolated than we have reason to believe is the case.

In a statement, the president and founder of the group China Aid, Bob Fu, said, «His arrest marks a major escalation in the crackdown against those who oppose the forced demolition of crosses.

If the mainstream Muslim world really, truly opposes these acts then they must move forcefully and without hesitation to eliminate the support, flow of money, aid and sanctuary these groups receive.

A «small army» of social workers and charitable groups managed their arrivals» from Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society workers in their white enamel badges to the volunteers from the National Council of Jewish Women (light blue silk armbands).

The van drove into a group of people who were apparently already administering first aid to a man who had collapsed on the pavement.

Risking goverment shut down for three items that don't even affect the budget for a small miniorty radicals in a religion and the insane tea party knowing full well shut down will cause thousands of jobs lost and the end of aid for those who need it is completely ridiculous, why don't they care for the majority that voted them in and not a small insignificant group?

[4] Steven Pomerantz, the FBI's former chief of counterterrorism, notes that «CAIR, its leaders, and its activities effectively give aid to international terrorist groups.»

And globally, the Red Cross and Salvation Army (founded by Catholics) and Medicin Sans Frontieres (originally founded by Christians, but now largely a secular group) have provided gratis disaster and emergency medical and other aid for decades, regardless of age, gender, religion, ethnicity, etc..

With the aid of conference circuits, it can even make possible collective intervention in a discussion by physically remote groups.

Not to be a jerk or anything, but if it were the other way around, and a man lost his job running an athiest group, because he found God, Christians would more than likely aid him, and athiests would accuse those helping him, of only doing so for the medias attention.

Washington (CNN)-- The Rev. Franklin Graham spends most of his time running an international aid group called Samaritan's Purse.

The two can actually be complementary — the social therapy of AA giving indispensable group support and resocialization during the psychotherapy, and the psychotherapy aiding the person in forming more satisfying relationships in AA and beyond by resolving some of his inner conflicts.

Is there an aid group or something out there that can help these people to get away from their insane neighbors who want to kill them (freely admitting that the majority of iraqi muslims are not murderers... that much said, it only takes one crazy person with a gun and a full ammo clip to wipe out a family)... somebody do something...

Typical of this approach are the activities of Nader's organization, Common Cause, legal aid for the poor, Chavez» organization of farm workers, the enforcing of civil rights, legislation for minority groups, and revival and application of the doctrine of just war to international conflict.

The Sutton Trust has found excessive praise or grouping students by their ability doesn't aid learning, and that a teacher's knowledge of a subject is more likely to make a difference.

In contrast, such politically neutral refugee aid groups as the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees purposely located their Honduran relief camps at least 33 miles from the border to avoid involvement with the hostilities.

Only the church organizations and legal aid groups were interested more generally in achieving a free marketplace of ideas.

Many types of groups exist, e.g., a depth Bible study group to stimulate the maturing of functional theologies; groups to aid preparation for normal crises such as retirement, middle age, marriage, childbirth (Caplan calls these «emotional innoculation groups»).

These organizations grew from small grass - roots groups to highly professionalized, slick lobbying operations with the aid of Atlantic money, and all were prominent in the campaign to pass this referendum.

Rightly calling attention to the extremely high level of violence in Colombia, Rivera failed to mention the group responsible for 70 percent of that violence: the paramilitary forces which, although ostensibly private and illegal, receive aid and cooperation from Colombia's army and hence, indirectly, from the U.S. Neither did Rivera mention the 2 million people who have fled from the fighting and the aerial fumigation of their farms.

Christian Aid is on the search for a group of creative young Christians that have a passion for social justice.

As humans we are able reason how setting standards for our social groups benefited our survival and thus aiding others helped us in the long run versus just some survival of the fittest flawed notion.

She attributes the failure of these reforms to poor local capacities, to the resistance of African interest groups, and to donors» lack of savvy and backbone in negotiating aid - for - reform deals.

Editor's note: As aid organizations struggle to reach Nepal residents reeling from an earthquake 16 times more powerful than Haiti's 2010 disaster, evangelical groups including World Vision, Convoy of Hope, and Samaritan's Purse are racing to help survivors as aftershocks continue.

His killers say they belong to the Taliban in Afghanistan, where Bae had led a group of 23 church volunteers (18 of them women) on a medical aid trip.