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Success with Humanitarian Aid in Kenya

July 10, 2009 | by Humanitarian Aid and Relief | Comment

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World Con­cern Pres­i­dent Dave Eller spends time read­ing to Maa­sai boys in Kenya. World Con­cern works with the Maa­sai to pro­vide many aspects of sus­tain­able humanitarian aid.

Here’s a handy tip

G-8 pledges $20 million for food security

July 10, 2009 | by Poverty News Blog | Comment

Many expected a pledge of $15 bil­lion, instead the G-8… sur­passed that by pledg­ing $20 bil­lion dol­lars to fight hunger through­out the world. The $20 bil­lion will come from the

Microcredit doesn’t stop at small loans

July 10, 2009 | by Poverty News Blog | Comment

The micro­cre­dit… rev­o­lu­tion isn’t stop­ing with small loans. Many micro­cre­dit lenders are offer­ing more ser­vices such as sav­ings and check­ing accounts, life insur­ance and more. All the new ser­vices can

2010 World Cup could increase human trafficking in South Africa

July 10, 2009 | by Poverty News Blog | Comment

U. S. Ambas­sador to South Africa, Luis Cde­Baca warned that human traf­fick­ing… could increase in the coun­try with the com­ing of the 2010 World Cup. Already within the coun­try girls

Action needed to stop an attempt to cut funding to World Bank’s African donor program

July 9, 2009 | by Poverty News Blog | Comment

ONE is ask­ing every­one in the states to call their rep­re­sen­ta­tives in Con­gress to stop an amend­ment that would cut fund­ing to the World Bank’s… Inter­na­tional Devel­op­ment Asso­ci­a­tion. This fund

New mothers, new refugees

July 9, 2009 | by Poverty News Blog | Comment

The vio­lence in Pak­istan… has cre­ated a health emer­gency for preg­nant and new moth­ers within refugee camps in the coun­try. 69,000 preg­nant women have been forced out of north­west Pakistan

Another disease of poverty: Chagas

July 9, 2009 | by Poverty News Blog | Comment

This morn­ing Médecins Sans Fron­tières reminds us of another dis­ease that strikes peo­ple in poverty called Cha­gas. The dis­ease is mostly con­cen­trated in Latin Amer­ica… but there have been a

The G-8 talks about aid

July 9, 2009 | by Poverty News Blog | Comment

In the G-8… meet­ing in Italy the world’s eight biggest economies opened the table to other emerg­ing economies. The invites are seen by many as admis­sion that the eight countries

A New Leader for Myanmar Humanitarian Aid

July 8, 2009 | by Humanitarian Aid and Relief | Comment

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New Myan­mar Coun­try Direc­tor Rebecca Htin will be lead­ing World Concern’s Human­i­tar­ian Aid. She’s a med­ical doc­tor and grew up in the country.

I met an amaz­ingly qual­i­fied new co-worker

WFP suspends food distribution due to bombings in southern Philippines

July 8, 2009 | by Poverty News Blog | Comment

The U.N.‘s World Food Pro­gramme has sus­pended food dis­tri­b­u­tion in the South­ern Philip­pines… due to increased bomb­ings there. The food was being given to hun­dreds of thou­sands of peo­ple displaced

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