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  • Aid Worker Diary: Overcoming grief and loss after Typhoon Bopha
    13 February 2013 - 10:53am
    ‘When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life a thousand reasons to smile.’ That’s the motto 25-year-old Marietes Dayaguit lives by after she was forced from her home when Tropical Storm Washi swept through Mindanao in 2011 causing massive flooding and destruction.  Tes...
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  • Yemen: Helping migrants from the Horn of Africa
    12 February 2013 - 3:42pm
    Adam Abdul Haji, 19, left his home town of Jimma in Ethiopia with a group of friends to find work in Saudi Arabia. That dream came to an abrupt end when he was seriously injured in a car accident in Yemen and abandoned by the side of the road. Two months later, he is still receiving treatment at a...
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  • Aid worker diary: the dislocation of Syria’s displaced people
    11 February 2013 - 4:40pm
    In a frigid two-room apartment in the Damascus suburb of Saboura, Fatimah fights back the tears. It’s been six months since she and her family fled their home under the cloak of night. Six months since she saw neighbours and friends, six months since she last watered the rose bushes that grew in her...
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  • Interview: Humanitarian Coordinator for the Democratic Republic of...
    11 February 2013 - 9:26am
    An estimated 6.4 million people across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are food insecure, including 2 million children who are acutely malnourished. About 2.7 million people, mostly affected by recurrent conflict in the east of the country, are internally displaced. In November 2012, heavy...
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  • DRC: UN calls for $892.6 million for aid in 2013
    7 February 2013 - 3:48pm
    UN agencies and humanitarian partners appealed today for US$892.6 million to help millions of people affected by food insecurity, conflict and disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).  The Humanitarian Action Plan (HAP) 2013, which was launched in DRC’s capital Kinshasa, will...
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