Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association helps to improve the lives of thousands of people in Memphis, Tennessee February is Black History Month in the United States. The national observance pays tribute to people and events that have helped to shape Afr...
A US Army soldier gives a hand as women leave an aid distribution site carrying sacks of rice on their heads in Port-au-Prince, 01 Feb 2010 U.S. government agencies have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on rescue and relief efforts in Haiti, whi...
Haitian-born actor Jimmy Jean-Louis of the popular NBC series 'Heroes' at the 'Sustainable Haiti' conference in Miami, 18 Mar 2010 A year-and-a-half ago, Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) asked Haitian-born actor, Jimmy Jean-Louis to be its...
The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that by the year 2080, one in five Americans will be over age 65. For some time, experts have warned that health care needs of the elderly will be enormous in the years ahead. A study out this week raises concern for...
Reports of chaotic food handouts, Monday, highlight the difficult conditions survivors face as many continue their search for the dead, mourn those they have lost and struggle to meet their basic needs of food and water. William Ide | Washington 26 J...
The damage, the destruction, the loss of life, are just overwhelming. - UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has arrived in Haiti, where he has come to express his support for victims of Tuesday's massive earthquake. M...
By Ron Corben Bangkok 19 June 2008 The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization is calling for urgent aid for thousands of farm families that suffered losses during last month's cyclone in Burma. As Ron Corben reports from Bangkok, while aid experts s...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 11 January 2008 The United Nations says it expects one half million people in Kenya, whose livelihoods were destroyed during post-election violence, will need assistance in the coming months. U.N. aid agencies report the situat...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi, Kenya 10 December 2007 Many medical aid workers in countries facing nutritional emergencies extol the virtues of ready-to-eat foods. A nutrition specialist for Doctors Without Borders reported such therapeutic foods were us...
Can she change how you behave? Dogs that can retrieve cash from ATMs and empty washing machines help disabled people lead more independent lives, but can they also help change disruptive teenagers' behaviour? A unique TV experiment, Dog House, follo...
