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Start Fund: responding to lesser known humanitarian crises

Posted by: Matthew Benson, Humanitarian Programme Manager, Posted on: 21 August 2015 - Categories: Humanitarian, Other

We all too often see in the media, news concerning large scale humanitarian disasters, like the earthquake in Nepal or Typhoon Haiyan in The Philippines. It is right that there...

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World Humanitarian Day: the challenges we face

Posted by: Yves Daccord, Director General of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Posted on: 19 August 2015 - Categories: Humanitarian

...the long term. This support has been in areas such as education and health and has helped build the resilience of people to better withstand crises. But when crises do...

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World Humanitarian Day in South Sudan

Posted by: Henry Donati, Programme Manager, Humanitarian Response Group, Posted on: 19 August 2014 - Categories: Africa, Humanitarian
Delivering aid to Akobo. Picture: Henry Donati/DFID

The helicopter banks down steeply to the left, and we’re approaching Akobo town; the miles of flat scrub land and acacia trees have given way to a scattering of huts and one-story, corrugated iron-roofed brick buildings. We hover over a …

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