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RNWMicrofinance: RT @hvandenbergh during a crisis medical & food help comes first. But for the reconstruction phase I think microfinance is great #rnwmf
RNWMicrofinance: RT @hvandenbergh during a crisis medical & food help comes first. But for the reconstruction phase I think microfinance is great #rnwmf ...
More Dutch freelancers heading for food banks
that cares about the welfare of it's citizens. (Dutch Food Bank agency, economic crisis, Food banks ... voedselbank_2.jpg The financial crisis is creating so many problems for self-employed people in the Netherlands that more and more of them are requesting help from food banks. The Dutch ...
Bartering for a better environment
side of lawn grass, food education at the Screaming Avocado, and hunting your own food. Listen ... in Amsterdam Bartering is big in these times of financial crisis… and it’s also good for the environment ... around the country where people bartered goods and services to get through the crisis. Now, even though ...
UNICEF: child protection crisis in Haiti
children's agency says it is facing its biggest child protection crisis in the wake of the devastating ... in the Horn of Africa are suffering from drought, chronic food shortages and armed conflicts. Sudan, Chad ... . UNICEF says it needs almost one billion euros to provide security, food, hygiene, health care ...
Millions hungry in Africa amid high food prices
and war have compounded the crisis, with some 20 million people desperately in need of food aid. Of the 20 ... FAO 2008 EPA.jpg Food prices remain high in the developing world ... , the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned. Although international food ...
Free food for poor pets
Animals shouldn't be victims of the credit crisis, so Linda Schut has opened a food bank for them. Hard-up owners can collect free parcels of pet food from her. They're the leftovers from pet shops that would ... food, more than these animals, but then people aren't as helpless as these dumb animals in snowy lands ...
UN stops food aid to over half a million Nepalis
downturn, a World Food Programme (WFP) official said on Wednesday. The UN agency says it needs ... it was assisting - in the impoverished Himalayan nation over the next three months. "WFP food-for-work programmes have protected millions of poor Nepalis from hunger caused by drought, high food prices, rising ...
Supermarkets to test cheap healthy food
crisis is prompting more people, especially in poor areas, to eat badly because much unhealthy food ... to reduce the prices on healthy foods next year. It’s part of a test designed to find out whether people will make a conscious effort to eat more healthily. Healthy foods such fruit and vegetables ...
US report: 49 million Americans short of food
food kitchen.jpg Almost 50 million Americans - one in seven - are struggling to get enough to eat, according to a US federal survey on "food insecurity". Because of the credit crisis, up to 15 percent of all households, equal to 49.1 million people, have ...
UN food aid facing funds shortage
is threatening its food aid operations in certain parts of West Africa. It says flights to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Chad by its World Food Programme are at risk. Every month, 4000 UN aid workers fly to ten ... aid to Ivory Coast and Niger. The lack of money has been caused by the global economic crisis. UN ...
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