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Meet my adorable nephew, Usher. It is said that in Sub Saharan Africa, almost 1000 babies born each day are HIV+ and may never live to see their 5th birthday simply because they have unnecessarily been infected through their mothers. This figure is still very high and should be halted. With the strides achieved in medicine, it is possible to have 0 babies born HIV+; Yes, it is possible to have an HIV+ free generation if efforts are upped in the fight against mother to child transmission. I call upon everyone to join the fight. MTCT can be stopped; What are you doing to STOP this?!Meet my adorable nephew, Usher. It is said that in Sub Saharan Africa, almost 1000... more
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After 6 days in Zimbabwe traversing between multiple project partners including Foundations for Farming, Mtshabezi Secondary School, and The Rock Church among others, the team from Forgotten Voices has moved on to Zambia. You may have noticed from their tweets that the team's schedule has been incredibly busy, a roller coaster ride of mixed emotions as they reunite with old friends and also become reacquainted with their hardships...After 6 days in Zimbabwe traversing between multiple project partners including... more
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Health minister in Haiti says 501 have died from the Cholera outbreak, with fears the disease might now be in the countries capital Port-au-Prince. The number of estimated infected is now 7,000.
However, Health workers are saying the figures for infection could be higher from areas cut off from Hurricane Tomas.
"There was flooding in Leogane, Les Cayes, Jacmel and Gonaives, while many mountain towns have been cut off by flooded roads and landslides.
Although the hurricane passed without destroying the tented camps in and around the capital - which house about 1.3 million survivors of January's earthquake - there were fears over the increased risk of cholera."-BBCHealth minister in Haiti says 501 have died from the Cholera outbreak, with fears the... more
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Meet Chris, a high school student who gave up money he saved for a car to support a farm project at The Rock, a church partner of http://www.ForgottenVoices.org. Chris is part of a super rad event called Nervosity, which raises money for us every summer. What would you do to help the kids we love to serve?Meet Chris, a high school student who gave up money he saved for a car to support a... more
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"Humanitarian aid delays for American victims of the US military Gulf oil and chemical dispersant attacks is a matter of life and death. WWL TV reports on one family of many submitting aid requests for Toxic Survival Kits, insurance and relocation assistance. Aid available is not meeting the needs but with more reports like WWL's, those suffering have a better chance of survival."
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/censored-gulf-news-dying-without-aid-seen-on-tv-ignored-cries-for-help-america
This is incredibly sad.
And the story repeats itself: The inadequate response to Hurricane Katrina and now this.
When are people going to stand up to protect their fellow citizens?
WHEN?
What will you do when it happens to you?
Spread this with as many people as you know. These people need help and the corporation and the government needs to be held accountable!
Join the Organic Movement:
http://current.com/groups/organicgreen/"Humanitarian aid delays for American victims of the US military Gulf oil and... more
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Bono's anti-poverty foundation ONE is under pressure to explain its finances after it was revealed that only a small percentage of money it raises reaches the needy.
The non-profit organisation set up by the U2 frontman received almost £9.6million in donations in 2008 but handed out only £118,000 to good causes (1.2 per cent).
The figures published by the New York Post also show that £5.1million went towards paying salaries.
ONE said it took no money from the public and that most of its funding came from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1314543/Bonos-ONE-foundation-giving-tiny-percentage-funds-charity.html#ixzz10g1TegCz
U2 frontman is right. I heard he hasn't wrote a song sing The Joshua Tree. Most charities are tax fronts for the likes of Gates, Rockefellers, Rothschilds, etc.
If you follow the money it all goes back to rich, eugenicist bankers, who elect their nieces and nephews as trustees that fly first class around the world, raising awareness at galas and balls and give themselves humanitarian awards as they rob the 3rd world blind and pump them full of vaccines.Bono's anti-poverty foundation ONE is under pressure to explain its finances... more
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Six million children are suffering from Pakistan's devastating floods: lost, orphaned or stricken with diarrhoea, they are the most vulnerable victims of the nation's worst-ever natural disaster.
At relief camps in government schools and colleges and in tent villages on the edge of towns and by roadways, children are prostate from the heat, sick from poor drinking water, or simply trying to find work.
"These are the most bitter days of my life," said Iltaz Begum, 15, suffering from diarrhoea and stretched out in a government tent on the muddy outskirts of the northwestern town of Nowshehra.
"The weather has made our lives miserable. I had to leave my blind mother behind and there's no one to look after her as my father died two years ago."
The tent village has no electricity. The rains have gone, but only to be replaced by heat and humidity. Flies buzz everywhere and the smell of faeces wafts through the camp.
Girls like Iltaz are just a drop in the ocean for the massive relief effort that the international community is trying to mobilise in one of the biggest ever UN aid operations.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said millions had lost their livelihoods as he visited Pakistan on Sunday and witnessed "heart wrenching" scenes of destruction. Pakistan says 20 million people have been hit by the floods.
"Many have lost families and friends. Many more are afraid their children and loved ones will not survive in these conditions," said Ban.
Sami Abdul Malik, spokesman for the UN children's fund UNICEF, said six million children were affected by the floods. The fund is distributing high-energy biscuits to stave off malnutrition and other diseases.
"Currently we are in a life-saving phase," he told AFP. "We are distributing high energy biscuits because malnutrition is a curse. It can lead to several other diseases.
"Children are always vulnerable. They cannot control their thirst, they will drink any type of water and may get watery diarrhoea, cholera, malaria and other diseases."
On top of all this are the trauma and psychological problems faced by those who have been orphaned or separated from parents.
In the south, people fleeing flooded homes have headed towards tent camps near the city of Sukkur. Abdul Ghani, 14, arrived from the remote village of Karampur, the eldest of seven orphaned siblings.
"Both my parents died in the space of six months last year. Me and a younger brother of mine worked as labourers to support the family," said Ghani, wearing a worn grey shalwar khamis.
"Life was already so difficult, but now we're doomed.
"My four-year-old sister is hungry and ill but I have no idea what to do, where to go. No one is there to help us," he said.
Shakeel Ahmed, 15, another orphan, faces a similar problem providing better shelter and food for his three younger siblings.
"We're too young and no one takes our problems seriously. No one listens to us. I tried to explain our problems but they shrugged me away," he said.
In a relief camp at a Nowshehra technical college, children are crying, many walk naked without shoes, and a foul stench pervades the air due to people urinating and defecating next to the tents.
Doctors at the camp's field hospital say most of the children are suffering from gastroenteritis, skin diseases and dehydration caused by filth and infection resulting from the destruction of sewers in the floods.
Twenty-five year-old Bushra Humayun, a labourer's wife, said she had given birth to twins in the camp, adding to her six other children.
She recalled losing her house in the flood and wading up to her neck through water while pregnant to reach the camp, two miles away.
"I'm not getting enough food to feed my two infants and they're getting weak as they remain underfed," Humayun told AFP, sweat dripping down her face.
Her 12-year-old son Haroon had stomach pain and mosquito bites all over his arms and face. Life in the camp is their only prospect for the foreseeable future.Six million children are suffering from Pakistan's devastating floods: lost,... more
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"UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has left Pakistan after saying the floods were the worst disaster he had seen."-BBC
Over the weekend, there were images from Bank Ki-moons visit to Pakistan, and it showed the devastation caused by the flooding with large areas of the country covered in water were towns and crops have been destroyed.
Now the dangers for people in the flooded areas is the spread of water-borne diseases, with a UN spokesman saying 3.5m children are at risk. The article talks about the slow arrival of aid to areas with survivors and the criticism faced by authorises about the reaction to the disaster.
"On Sunday, Mr Ban again urged the world to speed up aid to the country, saying shelter and medicine were desperately needed.
He announced a further $10m (£6.4m) from the UN's central emergency response fund, making a total of $27m from the fund so far, and repeated his calls for the international community to come to Pakistan's aid."-BBC"UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has left Pakistan after saying the floods were... more
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The U.S. has given Pakistan over $20 billion in assistance since 2001; is another $10 million to ease tensions after the WikiLeaks news really necessary?The U.S. has given Pakistan over $20 billion in assistance since 2001; is another $10... more
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WASHINGTON - A fundraising campaign is currently underway in the United States to finance the purchase of an American ship in an effort to break the Israeli naval blockade of the Gaza Strip in the early autumn. The ship is to be named after U.S. President Barack Obama's book "The Audacity of Hope."
If that isn't enough to stir the ghosts of the 2008 American presidential election, one of the prominent figures to support the initiative is Columbia University history professor Rashid Khalidi, a well-known critic of Israel whose friendship with the American president from their days together in Chicago engendered criticism of Obama.
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http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/obama-s-friend-raising-funds-for-new-gaza-aid-ship-1.303844WASHINGTON - A fundraising campaign is currently underway in the United States to... more
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The Palestinian Authority is accused of corruption by many but receives more humanitarian aid per capita from the international community than any other country in the world. The billions of dollars that are meant for schools, hospitals and infrastructure have been spent on luxury villas, casinos and payments to terrorists.
The misuse of such aid isn’t just a tragedy for the Palestinian community. Because, every dollar misused by Hamas and the Palestinian Authority is money which could have been spent on other dire humanitarian crises around the globe – victims of abject poverty, disease, and violence who, for some reason, apparently aren’t deemed as worthy of the developed world’s significant largess.
The world is living the lie of the disadvantaged starving Palestinians. The Palestinians themselves are corrupted by the free flow of money from a world that believes in their victimhood, making them averse to ending the sit...uation in which they are pitied and paid.
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www.FreeMiddleEast.comThe Palestinian Authority is accused of corruption by many but receives more... more
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WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Americans opposed to Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip are organizing a ship from the United States to take part in an international flotilla.
The flotilla, set to sail to Gaza in September or October, will be made up of ships from India, Europe, Canada, South Africa and the Middle East. The organizers hope to name the American ship The Audacity of Hope, after President Obama’s second autobiographical book.
“From the deck of The Audacity of Hope, we will be in a powerful and unique position to challenge U.S. foreign policy and affirm the universal obligation to uphold human rights and international law,” organizers wrote on their website, UStoGaza.org.
Organizers are trying to raise $370,000 through the website to pay for a ship, crew, and licensing and registration of the boat. They plan to carry 40 to 60 people on board.
Among the more than 70 people who have signed the appeal for money are Lara Lee, who smuggled out a video of the flotilla incident in May in which nine aboard a Turkish-flagged ship were killed, and Michael Ratner, director of the Center for Constitutional Rights.
http://jta.org/news/article/2010/07/21/2740136/amreicans-organize-ship-to-join-flotilla-to-gazaWASHINGTON (JTA) -- Americans opposed to Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza... more
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Israel is easing its blockade of Hamas-ruled Gaza to allow in virtually all consumer goods, items from household cleaners to timber that had been barred from import for years.Israel is easing its blockade of Hamas-ruled Gaza to allow in virtually all consumer... more
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After meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, President Obama announced an increase of aid from the US to Gaza and the West Bank.
The article in the Guardian, points out most aid usually goes to the West Bank and suggests the media attention on living conditions in Gaza might have increased new humanitarian efforts there.
From the article, it sounds like the money will go towards infrastructure projects like £10m for UN schools, but added it's unclear on how the construction materials will get into Gaza because of the blockade on the materials.
"Earlier this week the UK government promised an extra £19m in aid. Israel today announced extra items it would allow into Gaza, including crisps, canned fruit, packaged hummus and shaving foam[...]The Israeli Defence Force said it had allowed 98 truckloads of aid into Gaza yesterday – still less than a quarter of the amount that was permitted before the blockade"-Guardian
If Abbas helped increase the aid for Gaza, it'll be interesting to see if influence from Hamas in Gaza will reduce and boost support for negotiation processes. "Mr Abbas, opposed to armed struggle and committed to pursuing an independent Palestinian state through negotiations, has enjoyed strong support from the international community. "-BBCAfter meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, President Obama announced an increase of aid from... more
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Demonstration in London against attack on Gaza Aid flotilla by Israeli forces. London, UK, 31/05/2010.
On the morning of May 31st, a humanitarian aid flotilla sailing to Gaza to deliver essential supplies was attacked by Israeli commandos.
There are unconfirmed reports that up to 20 activist were killed during the attack on the Turkish Humanitarian Aid ship the "Mavi Marmara".
A number of British nationals from different organizations were on board and at this stage, it is not clear who has been killed.
The Stop the War Coalition, in conjunction with the British Muslim Initiative, Palestinian Solidarity Campaign and a number of Trade Unions called an emergency protest outside Downing Street.
Speeches were given by the heads of the various organizations including Kate Hudson, Loindsay German, Tariq Ali and Low-Key.
After the speeches, the crowd amounting to several thousand people made its way down Whitehall, past the Houses of Parliament and on to the Israeli Embassy.Demonstration in London against attack on Gaza Aid flotilla by Israeli forces. London,... more
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"As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest,...will never cease." Indeed, we can do more with a little help of seed."As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest,...will never cease."... more
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British activists who were detained after trying to transport aid to Gaza are reported to be arriving back to the UK soon from Turkey. The numbers returning is reported to be 37. Foreign Secretary Hague expressed his concern after PMQs over the raid on the boats in international waters and said there's justified anger over the incident.
"Israel has now said it has dropped plans to prosecute the activists in an attempt to limit the diplomatic damage it faced over the bloody flotilla raid."PA
With activists returning there's an expectation into more details coming out about the raid and detention.British activists who were detained after trying to transport aid to Gaza are reported... more
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Reportedly due to land on Wednesday, Ireland's chief political leader offers stern warning to Israel.
June 2, 2010 |
Irish humanitarian aid ship the MV Rachel Corrie is still sailing for Gaza, in spite of Israel's recent, devastating attack on other vessels in the Gaza aid flotilla, resulting in at least nine dead activists and hundreds of prisoners.
The ship, named after 23-year-old U.S. peace activist Rachel Corrie -- who was crushed to death in 2003 by an American-built bulldozer operated by the Israeli army -- has been pleading with the international community to pressure Israel into leaving them alone.
The Irish government, for its part, has threatened Israel with "the most serious consequences" if any Irish national, captured or currently abroad an aid vessel, is harmed.
"If any harm comes to any of our citizens, it will have the most serious consequences," Taoiseach Brian Cowen said, according to The Irish Times.
"Taoiseach" is the position bestowed upon the individual who leads Ireland's government.
The MV Rachel Corrie is reportedly due to arrive in Gaza on Wednesday, according to the Irish Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Irish officials have demanded Israel let the boat pass unimpeded. Ireland has long opposed Israel's military blockade of Palestine.
"The government has formally requested the Israeli government to allow the Irish-owned ship to be allowed to complete its journey unimpeded and discharge its humanitarian cargo in Gaza," Cowen said.
"The Rachel Corrie is carrying medical equipment, wheelchairs, school supplies and cement, a material Israel has banned in Hamas-ruled Gaza, organizers said," the Seattle Post-Globe reported.
Five Irish activists and five Malaysian activists were said to be aboard.
"In the names of our friends, we are more determined than ever to continue into Gaza with our humanitarian cargo and our support for the blockaded and suffering people of Gaza," read a message sent on behalf of the activists, published by Global Research. "We expect Israel to respond to the international condemnation of its violence by not impeding by any means the safe passage of the Rachel Corrie. We appeal to the international community and United Nations to continue to demand Israel our safe passage into Gaza."
Activist group Jewish Voice for Peace declared in an e-mail to supporters, "We still don't know the names of those who were killed or injured, or where they are from. And we don't know the whereabouts or well-being of more than 400 activists still being held by Israel." The group demanded Israel release the activists without condition or charge.
The activists' call echoed another from NATO, which demanded the prisoners' freedom and pressed the need for a "prompt, impartial, credible and transparent investigation" into the events.
In response to the activist killings, Egypt announced it would open a portion of border crossing into Palestine to allow in future shipments of humanitarian supplies. Turkey, reportedly the country of origin for some of the May 31st raid's victims, pledged it would send a military escort with future Gaza aid boats.Reportedly due to land on Wednesday, Ireland's chief political leader offers... more
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