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>>Actionaid Committed To Eradicating Poverty In Nigeria – Team LeadershipNigeria, Nigeria - The Actionaid Governance Team Leader, Mrs Ene Obi, has said the eradication of poverty in Nigeria is top on the priorities of the non -governmental ... |
 Ghana Broadcasting Corporation | Actionaid says rich nations squabbles could hamper aid for poor Xinhua, China - 1 (Xinhua) -- A global development agency, ActionAid, said on Monday it is concerned that major international aid talks due to start in Ghana will end with ... W.Bank urges better aid to fight food, fuel squeeze Aid talks fail to deliver for the world’s poor International development: Britain unveils plan to stop misuse of ... |
Groups push donors to honour pledges Daily Nation, Kenya - However, NGO’s such as ActionAid voiced strong criticism against major donors. Lenders were accused of contributing to a near collapse of the talks because ... US, Japan and World Bank go wild Accra Action Agenda Finalized: A Realistically Ambitious ... |
 Calgary Herald | ActionAid steps up relief to Bihar's flood survivors as concerns ... Reuters AlertNet, UK - ActionAid has released £35000 from contingency funds to step up relief operations in the state of Bihar, where India's prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh has ... Video: Indian Flood Refugees Settle at Camps Tensions rise over Indian flood relief India's flood-hit Bihar grapples with epidemic fears |
Tests show Anglo not pollluting water Independent Online, South Africa - Water tests have raised questions over accusations made by Action Aid against Anglo Platinum that it was polluting the drinking water of two communities in ... |
Action Aid delivers dignity and help Myanmar Times, Burma - Action Aid’s projects aim to ensure dignity in relief, an approach that gives the communities themselves decision-making respon-sibilities about aid and how ... |
Stourbridge family's bid to make a difference to tsunami victims Birmingham Post, UK - I remember seeing the shocking scenes of the tsunami in 2004 and think this was the catalyst to our involvement with ActionAid. ... Father tells of 'incredible' aid trip |
“Country under water” after Haiti’s second storm in a week ReliefWeb (press release), Switzerland - A major relief effort will be needed in Haiti after two tropical storms, Gustav and Hanna, hit the Caribbean's poorest nation in less than a week, ActionAid ... |
 Ghana Broadcasting Corporation | Action Aid to reduce violence against school girls Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, Ghana - An International non-governmental organization, Action Aid, in collaboration with the Big Lottery Fund of the United Kingdom is sponsoring a five year ... |
 BBC News | Millions affected, thousands missing in Bihar floods says ActionAid Reuters AlertNet, UK - "Floodwater has claimed new areas in Bihar, impacting a generation of people who have not faced floods in their lives," says PV Unnikrishnan, ActionAid's ... Rains hinder flood rescue efforts |
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Flooding causes devastation in the eastern state of Bihar in India with thousands missing, hundreds of villages destroyed and road and rail routes blocked, says ActionAid.This year the river Koshi, which flows into India from Nepal, broke through an embankment changing its path and flowing on a course that it had 100 years ago. The breach area is now over a thousand meter wide, releasing 0.15 Million cusec of water into the villages every day. This has forced two million people from their homes in six districts, where they were unprepared for such a disaster.Those displaced are not expected to be able to return to their homes for another two or three months when the embankment is repaired and the river moves back to its normal course.People have incurred crop losses worth millions. Hunger is one of the key challenges for those affected by the floods. The daily struggle for food will remain even after flood waters recede. ActionAid needs your support to help the flood affected people of Bihar. Please respond NOW! Please get in touch with Supporter Services, ActionAid Association, No.139 Richmond Road, P.B No. 5406, Bangalore -- 560 025, 080-25586682. Or write to fundindia@actionaid.org. Visit: http://www.actionaid.org/india/index.aspx?PageID=3710Your donation will help us: • Rescue the victims who are still in the villages surrounded with water. • Provide Food support for 15 days. • Provide nutritional support for the infants, pregnant and lactating mothers and sanitary support for women. • Provide temporary shelter in raised areas. • Ensure Health care treatment for water borne diseases.Clean up the surroundings and remove carcasses.
Author: actionaidcomms
Keywords: Humanitarian assistance Bihar floods Relief Rescue South Asia ActionAid
Added: September 4, 2008
Action Aid campaign video aimed at the European Union
Author: humanityproductions
Keywords: humanitarian aid NGO development documentary europe
Added: September 4, 2008
Haiti situation 'catastrophic' after Hanna stormRelated »Tropical Storm Gustav kills 72 in Caribbean | 29/08/2008Gustav increases in strength as it batters Cuba | 30/08/2008Storm Fay hits Florida for fourth time | 23/08/2008Bush on way to survey Gustav damage | 03/09/2008Hurricane Ike charged across the Atlantic toward the Bahamas and the US east coast today while Tropical Storm Hanna's death toll in Haiti grew to 90.Ike posed no immediate threat to land, and it remained too early to say if it would threaten Caribbean islands, the US east coast or the oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico.In Haiti, the civil protection office said 37 of the 90 Hanna-related deaths had occurred in the port city of Gonaives, where flood waters appeared to be receding. Gustav killed at least 75 people in the impoverished Caribbean nation of nine million.Gonaives residents were still stranded on their rooftops two days after flood waters rose and the government did not know the fate of those who had been in hospitals and prisons.The humanitarian group ActionAid said a major relief effort would be needed in the poorest nation in the Americas, hit by riots in April over skyrocketing food prices.President Rene Preval called the situation "catastrophic," comparing it to floods from Tropical Storm Jeanne in September 2004 that killed more than 3,000 people around Gonaives.Hanna churned just east of the far-flung Bahamian chain of 700 islands on a path that was expected to take it to the US east coast near the South Carolina-North Carolina border on Saturday as a weak hurricane.Hurricane Ike weakened slightly today after growing explosively in the space of a few hours on Wednesday from a tropical storm to an intense Category 4 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson intensity scale.Tropical Storm Josephine also marched across the Atlantic on a westward course behind Ike but it had begun to weaken.The burst of storm activity followed Hurricane Gustav's rampage through the Caribbean to the Louisiana coast, where it slammed ashore on Monday west of New Orleans, largely sparing the city devastated by Hurricane Katrina three years ago.The flurry of storms was a clear signal that this six-month hurricane season is on track to be a ferociously busy one, though not like record-busting 2005 when 28 tropical storms, including Katrina, rolled across the Atlantic and Caribbean.Hanna weakened slightly on Thursday, but it still had 65 mile per hour winds and the US National Hurricane Center said it could become a hurricane on Friday.Reuters
Author: DBICKFORDALANZ
Keywords: HANNA HAARP DOUGLASS BICKFORD TRUTHTV
Added: September 4, 2008
In the ActionAid tent at Reading festival this year Bollocks to Poverty broke the Guinness World Record for the biggest ever air guitar performance. Thanks to everyone who took part!
Author: ActionAidSpace
Keywords: actionaid bollocks to poverty air guitar reading festival
Added: September 3, 2008
In the ActionAid tent at Reading festival this year Bollocks to Poverty broke the Guinness World Record for the biggest ever air guitar performance. Thanks to everyone who took part!
Author: ActionAidSpace
Keywords: actionaid bollocks to poverty air guitar reading festival
Added: September 3, 2008
In the ActionAid tent at Reading festival this year Bollocks to Poverty broke the Guinness World Record for the biggest ever air guitar performance. Thanks to everyone who took part!
Author: ActionAidSpace
Keywords: actionaid bollocks to poverty air guitar reading festival
Added: September 3, 2008
In the ActionAid tent at Reading festival this year Bollocks to Poverty broke the Guinness World Record for the biggest ever air guitar performance. Thanks to everyone who took part!
Author: ActionAidSpace
Keywords: actionaid bollocks to poverty air guitar reading festival
Added: September 3, 2008
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Independent Italian music festival Italia Wave Love 2008 attracted over 60,000 festival-goers to Livorno. Read how ActionAid were there to get a piece of the action.
http://digg.com/music/Festival_goers_in_Tuscany_take_action_for_a_HungerFREE_world
In a recent report on this pillage, ActionAid shows that fishing families which once ate three times a day are now eating only once or twice.
http://digg.com/world_news/Europe_Is_Using_Trade_Deals_to_to_Steal_Food_from_Poor
According to a recent report by the nongovernmental organisation ActionAid, West African seas are being devastated by legal and illegal overfishing, while local fishing industries decline. Moreover, the economic partnership agreements in their currently proposed form only exacerbate this problem.
http://digg.com/environment/WEST_AFRICA_Overfishing_Linked_to_Food_Crisis_Migration
The charity ActionAid has lodged an application with the City of London requesting that the iconic St Paul's Cathedral should be demolished. The publicity seeking stunt is intended to draw attention to a British company's plans to mine bauxite from a sacred Indian mountain...
http://digg.com/travel_places/Charity_applies_to_knockdown_St_Paul_s
An aid agency has lodged an application to demolish St Paul's Cathedral in protest at plans by a British firm to mine a mountain in India. ActionAid put in the application to the City of London requesting the "total demolition" of the London landmark.
http://digg.com/world_news/Charity_seeks_permission_to_demolish_St_Pauls_Cathedral
Dr Claire Melamed, ActionAid's head of trade policy said: "What Gallagher shows is that the current rush to develop biofuels has not been thought through and is already having disastrous consequences for some of the poorest communities in the developing world. [...]
http://digg.com/business_finance/act_onaid_Biofuels_push_up_food_prices
The number of girls born and surviving in India has hit an all time low compared to boys, ActionAid says.
http://digg.com/world_news/India_baby_girl_deaths_increase_2
Dining Out for Life started in Philadelphia as the brainchild of an ActionAIDS volunteer. It is now in over 45 cities across North America, and raises well over $3,000,000 a year for people living with HIV & AIDS. With cities signing on all of the time, the map keeps growing!
http://digg.com/health/Dining_Out_For_Life_2008
File photo: Daniel Bekele, policy manager of the Ethiopian office of ActionAid, and Netsanet Demissie, founder and director of the Organization for Social Justice Ethiopia - Testimony to U.S Senate by Lynn Fredriksson The following is an excerpt from the testimony of Lynn Fredriksson, Advocacy Director for Africa, Amn
http://digg.com/world_news/Ethiopia_Testimony_to_U_S_Senate_by_Lynn_Fredriksson
Systematic discrimination against girls and women in the world's poorest countries will prevent the United Nations meeting its goals to reduce poverty, according to a report published today by the charity network ActionAid. The report says gender inequality must be put at the heart of the development agenda if those aims are to be met.
http://digg.com/world_news/Action_on_poverty_leaving_women_and_girls_behind_report