Full Coverage: Aid

28.10.2004 A coalition of more than 160 U.S. development and relief organizations is calling on President George W. Bush to provide more assistance to the more than 1.6 million people who have been forced from their homes in a brutal counter-insurgency campaign that the Bush administration has characterized as “genocide” in Sudan’s western region of Darfur.

28.10.2004 British parliamentarians ask the DFID to adopt scientific approach in its aid programmes.

28.10.2004 WFP executive director James T. Morris has called for help from the business community in Japan to put an end to global hunger.

28.10.2004 Although the world has more than enough food to sustain all people, a dozen children under the age of five are dying every minute from hunger, finds the UN special rapporteur on the right to food.

28.10.2004 Relief workers from Peace Winds, global partner of U.S. aid agency Mercy Corps, are providing emergency shelter for people displaced by the earthquake in Japan. With the roads impassable and most houses still without power and running water, the Peace WindsÂ’ shelters will be home to many of the victims for the next few weeks.

26.10.2004 The World Bank has started a computer donation programme that would provide computers to NGOs, community and non-profit groups working in the areas of health care, education, social services, youth and job training.

26.10.2004

Refugees from Darfur head for Eastern Chad © B.Heger/Exile Images / Exile Images

This much we know: more than twelve months on, the fighting and insecurity that sent Darfur people fleeing from their homes has not stopped. Relief workers do not know when the situation will improve but they plan to provide emergency aid till October 2005 and to help people rebuild their lives when they return to their villages.

25.10.2004 Almost two weeks after the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) ended its military operations in GazaÂ’s Jabalia camp, aid workers are still assessing the damages of what is now regarded as the heaviest IDF incursion since the beginning of the second intifada. Apart from damaged homes and the high civilian death toll, many of the campÂ’s residents, including the sick and the injured, were confined to their homes for 12 days during the operation.

25.10.2004 The U.S.-based group Global Giving provides opportunities to make tax-deductible contributions to projects around the world. Contributors can select from gift cards in different price range for grassroots projects in the area of health, education, environment or economic development.

20.10.2004 British plans to win international support for writing off the debt of the world's poorest countries have been scuttled by other G7 nations.

19.10.2004 Various civil society organisations in Karnataka have called for action against the "misdirected development of Karnataka", a south Indian state, as a result of grants made by international financial institutions.

19.10.2004 Mercy Corps, the U.S.-based non-profit, has launched a milk collection center in Kosovo to provide a ready sales point for dairy farmers. The project is part of the organizationÂ’s Multi Ethnic Return and Reintegration Program which seeks to facilitate post-conflict resettlement by providing guaranteed income base for returnee families.

15.10.2004 Restaurants from America's culinary centres like New York, Boston, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco will donate 20 per cent of their revenue to an NGO, Action against Hunger , to mark their commitments to the World Food Day.

14.10.2004 A grant by the French will contribute to BurundiÂ’s fund which will help Burundi honor its debt service obligations towards multilateral institutions.

14.10.2004

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The American Red Cross joins the rest of the humanitarian community to address the struggle of millions suffering from chronic malnourishment in observance of World Food Day this week. The organization is integrating education and training in nutrition, health and water and sanitation interventions into its food delivery program to move people from satisfying hunger to making their lives better.

13.10.2004 In addition to Heifer InternationalÂ’s gift of sheep program which benefits women around the world, the organization now offers a pre- and post-natal sheep and lamb care program known as WomenÂ’s Lambing Experience. The program focuses on hands-on activities like wool carding or cheese-making as well as environmental conservation and sustainable agriculture.

12.10.2004 International non governmental organisation, CARE, has initiated a new campaign to help hungry children and their families get the assistance they need. Join the campaign.

12.10.2004 Finance ministers from the Group of Seven recently held a meeting to stitch together a deal that would allow developing countries to spend less money repaying loans and more money in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

12.10.2004 The $340 million United Kingdom grant is expected to expand IndiaÂ’s Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (Universal Elementary Education Programme) as India still accounts for around one-fourth of the worldÂ’s 104 million out-of-school children.

11.10.2004

Bay Area International Development Organizations

About 2,000 communities in the Bay area and around the country are participating in this yearÂ’s Crop Walk events from October 3 to 30. Funds raised through the events support international programs of Church World Service.