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Community stepping up to help fire victims
Madrid :: Spain | 3 months ago
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Ukiah Daily Journal Clothing, supplies and furnishings are just some of the things concerned community members and businesses are gathering for the victims of the Fircrest apartment complex fire early Monday morning and left more than 20 people
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100 huts gutted in Mumbai slum blaze
Mumbai :: India | 3 months ago
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Eight people sustained burn injuries and around 100 huts were reduced to ashes in a major fire that engulfed a slum near Bandra station in west Mumbai, officials said on Thursday. The fire which started around 2am quickly spread to adjoining slums in
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Second Harvest opens expanded facility | Video
Orlando :: FL :: USA | 3 months ago
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Last year, Second Harvest distributed 36 million pounds of groceries to those in need, but it had to turn away another 4 million pounds of donations for lack of storage space. Much of that food was highly nutritious fresh produce, meats and dairy
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Study finds homelessness still rising in Minnesota
Saint Paul :: Canada | 3 months ago
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A new study by Wilder Research finds homelessness continues to rise in Minnesota but not as dramatically as during the economic crash. The study, conducted every three years, finds homelessness in Minnesota up about 6 percent since 2009. The one-day
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The Underworld of the Periphery: Countercultures of the Future
Khartoum :: Sudan | 3 months ago
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Think of the musical genres, poetic innovations, and linguistic creoles of the Caribbean; or think of the social margins or the queer periphery, where disenfranchisement and stigmatization give rise to relatively free experimentation in social
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U.N. Aid Workers Distributing Food To Malnourished KFC Customers
Forest Lake :: MN :: USA | 3 months ago
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MNResponding to an ongoing humanitarian crisis, U.N. aid workers reportedly descended on a local KFC Wednesday to deliver much-needed food to the restaurant's critically malnourished customers. In all my years in the field, I've never come across a
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30 Under 30: Social Entrepreneurs
New York City :: NY :: USA | 3 months ago
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Hugh Evans, 29 Cofounder, The Global Poverty Project In 2008, Evans along with his friend Simon Moss, now 29, launched The Global Poverty Project, which is committed to ending extreme poverty defined as living on less than U.S. $1.25 a day within 25
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About 30% people were below poverty line in 2009-10: Govt
New Delhi :: India | 3 months ago
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Rs 673 for rural areas and Rs 860 for urban areas. "The percentage of people living below poverty line in the country in 2009-10 has been estimated at 29.8 per cent," Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Planning Rajeev Shukla told the Lok
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You'll Never Live Like Common People
London :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
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You have either lived there or you have not. I get extremely annoyed at governments pontificating on how poor people can help themselves. Tough Love involves two concepts; moving from a place of understanding and compassion while setting realistic
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Widow's Mite: Pune woman, 85, donates Rs1 lakh to build temple
Pimpalgaon :: India | 3 months ago
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Even though she spent her entire life begging for alms, 85-year-old Laxmibai Pokharkar shocked people when she generously donated a handsome sum of Rs1 lakh to build a Ram temple in Pimpalgaon in Ambegaon tehsil. Pimpalgaon locals claim that after
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