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Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Charity Spotlight: Myositis Association
CountryUnited States
Category
Research/Dev
Charity Mission Statement
_______________________________________________________________
To find a cure for inflammatory and related myopathies, while serving those affected by these diseases.
To find a cure for inflammatory and related myopathies, while serving those affected by these diseases.
To donate and read the full charity profile, click here
Monday, February 27, 2012
SYRIA: Humanitarian aid
Geneva talks continue as Red Cross hopes major humanitarian intervention will be allowed soon
Talks in Geneva have been continuing as the International Red Cross and its partners negotiate humanitarian access to Syrians affected by armed conflict…
The International Red Cross is continuing to press for access to Homs and other affected areas to deliver food and vital medical aid.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent were in negotiations Sunday February 26 with both the Syrian authorities and opposition groups in Homs. The discussions have been highly sensitive and have yielded no concrete results.
Despite ICRC and Red Crescent workers evacuating seven wounded people to Al Amin hospital, and 20 women and children outside the affected zone on Saturday, the NGO is requesting urgent access to the worst hit areas with the situation described as deteriorating.
It is not sure when or if essential emergency evacuations will be allowed to take place… The ICRC and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent say they will continue to negotiate with the Syrian authorities and the opposition in an attempt to enter Baba Amr and carry out vital evacuations. Homs continues to be the main focus of conflict as the rebellion against Assad's rule gathers momentum.
In an increasingly complex situation the ICRC has been urging the Syrian authorities and all others involved in the ongoing violence to implement a daily cessation of fighting for at least two hours, in all areas affected, to allow urgent humanitarian assistance.
On Friday ICRC spokesperson Carla Haddad described the situation in Homs and in the other affected areas as deteriorating and that the security situation has become so bad that it is impossible to provide the humanitarian aid people desperately need…
"The situation is very difficult on the ground, she said.
"People are in a desperate situation - they need water, food, access to medical care. Some are seriously injured. We need to be able to access the different areas including Homs to be able to help them out."
Many people will be asking questions of the Syrian authorities - why don't they allow access for impartial ICRC workers to deliver aid and evacuate the wounded and the sick?
Syrian Arab Red Crescent and ICRC teams since February 11 have managed to enter the cities of Homs, Bludan, Al Zabadani and Madaya to provide humanitarian assistance for vulnerable people in need. A temporary halt in the fighting would allow the ICRC and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent to improve their assistance significantly and better respond to the vital needs of the population.
Since Thursday following an initiative in Switzerland, talks on the coordination of humanitarian aid for Syria have taken place in Geneva involving international governments and UN agencies.
International agencies including the UNHCR have stressed the importance of the neutrality of humanitarian aid. The ICRC has described the situation as worsening by the hour and says that people must get help urgently…
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Talks in Geneva have been continuing as the International Red Cross and its partners negotiate humanitarian access to Syrians affected by armed conflict…
The International Red Cross is continuing to press for access to Homs and other affected areas to deliver food and vital medical aid.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent were in negotiations Sunday February 26 with both the Syrian authorities and opposition groups in Homs. The discussions have been highly sensitive and have yielded no concrete results.
Despite ICRC and Red Crescent workers evacuating seven wounded people to Al Amin hospital, and 20 women and children outside the affected zone on Saturday, the NGO is requesting urgent access to the worst hit areas with the situation described as deteriorating.
It is not sure when or if essential emergency evacuations will be allowed to take place… The ICRC and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent say they will continue to negotiate with the Syrian authorities and the opposition in an attempt to enter Baba Amr and carry out vital evacuations. Homs continues to be the main focus of conflict as the rebellion against Assad's rule gathers momentum.
In an increasingly complex situation the ICRC has been urging the Syrian authorities and all others involved in the ongoing violence to implement a daily cessation of fighting for at least two hours, in all areas affected, to allow urgent humanitarian assistance.
On Friday ICRC spokesperson Carla Haddad described the situation in Homs and in the other affected areas as deteriorating and that the security situation has become so bad that it is impossible to provide the humanitarian aid people desperately need…
"The situation is very difficult on the ground, she said.
"People are in a desperate situation - they need water, food, access to medical care. Some are seriously injured. We need to be able to access the different areas including Homs to be able to help them out."
Many people will be asking questions of the Syrian authorities - why don't they allow access for impartial ICRC workers to deliver aid and evacuate the wounded and the sick?
Syrian Arab Red Crescent and ICRC teams since February 11 have managed to enter the cities of Homs, Bludan, Al Zabadani and Madaya to provide humanitarian assistance for vulnerable people in need. A temporary halt in the fighting would allow the ICRC and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent to improve their assistance significantly and better respond to the vital needs of the population.
Since Thursday following an initiative in Switzerland, talks on the coordination of humanitarian aid for Syria have taken place in Geneva involving international governments and UN agencies.
International agencies including the UNHCR have stressed the importance of the neutrality of humanitarian aid. The ICRC has described the situation as worsening by the hour and says that people must get help urgently…
Read more Xperedon Charity News at: http://www.xperedon.com/charity_news
Friday, February 24, 2012
Charity Spotlight: CUPA
CountryIndia
Category
Animals/Wildlife
Charity Mission Statement
_______________________________________________________________
CUPA is an organisation for the welfare of animals.
CUPA is an organisation for the welfare of animals.
To donate and read the full charity profile, click here
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
LEONA LEWIS: Valentine's plea
Singer Leona Lewis sends Valentine’s card to EU Commissioner
I've gotta getta message to you...
Why has X Factor star Leona Lewis sent a Valentine's Card to the EU's Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy?
It may well be the case that some EU officials in their corridors of power in Brussels look forward to receiving a Valentine's card from a glamorous pop star to brighten their day.
Well that's what John Dalli, European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy has received today...
However the pop star's Valentine’s card and letter is not one of devotion but more of a rap on the knuckles... The message features the singer wearing an End Animal Testing body art message... and includes a plea for a complete ban on animal tested cosmetics across the EU.
The singer and the charity Humane Society International which she is supporting are concerned about a potential loophole occurring allowing unethical animal tested products into the European Union. The Valentine's correspondence is part of Leona Lewis' support for the Humane Society International’s CrueltyFree2013 campaign.
Whilst the European Union banned animal testing for cosmetics in 2009, the campaign points out that ingredients can still be tested on animals in other countries and sold in EU stores.
The ban on selling these animal-tested cosmetics is due to come into force in 2013 and animal welfare activists see this as a major incentive for cosmetic companies to stop animal testing.
However, Leona Lewis along with the charity is concerned that Commissioner Dalli is now considering a proposal that would undermine the ban by giving cosmetics companies a loophole to continue making profits in the EU from the considerable animal suffering that occurs.
In her Valentine's Day message to the commissioner Leona Lewis writes:
"Animals have suffered enough. If their pain has been deemed immoral within the EU, it must also be immoral outside the EU. To trade in their pain would be hypocrisy..."
The campaign points out that cosmetics animal testing is inhumane and unnecessary forcing animals to suffer painful toxicity tests for no real discernible purpose. Whilst thousands of animals are killed in cosmetics tests each year cruelty free products are readily available using safe ingredients.
Guinea pigs, rabbits, mice and hamsters are commonly used for testing in countries outside the EU including China and the United States. Procedures can involve force-feeding animals with cosmetic ingredients and having them dripped on to their eyes or on to their skin and even forcing pregnant animals to ingest substances to see the effects on offspring.
Leona Lewis and the Humane Society International's campaign is also being supported by Ricky Gervais, Dame Judi Dench, Sir Roger Moore, Virginia McKenna and others...
Additional animal welfare charities such as Animal Aid and BUAV are also running cruelty free cosmetics campaigns hoping to ensure EU legislation offers a resounding no to cruelty testing for cosmetics...
Read more Xperedon Charity News at: http://www.xperedon.com/charity_news
I've gotta getta message to you...
Why has X Factor star Leona Lewis sent a Valentine's Card to the EU's Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy?
It may well be the case that some EU officials in their corridors of power in Brussels look forward to receiving a Valentine's card from a glamorous pop star to brighten their day.
Well that's what John Dalli, European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy has received today...
However the pop star's Valentine’s card and letter is not one of devotion but more of a rap on the knuckles... The message features the singer wearing an End Animal Testing body art message... and includes a plea for a complete ban on animal tested cosmetics across the EU.
The singer and the charity Humane Society International which she is supporting are concerned about a potential loophole occurring allowing unethical animal tested products into the European Union. The Valentine's correspondence is part of Leona Lewis' support for the Humane Society International’s CrueltyFree2013 campaign.
Whilst the European Union banned animal testing for cosmetics in 2009, the campaign points out that ingredients can still be tested on animals in other countries and sold in EU stores.
The ban on selling these animal-tested cosmetics is due to come into force in 2013 and animal welfare activists see this as a major incentive for cosmetic companies to stop animal testing.
However, Leona Lewis along with the charity is concerned that Commissioner Dalli is now considering a proposal that would undermine the ban by giving cosmetics companies a loophole to continue making profits in the EU from the considerable animal suffering that occurs.
In her Valentine's Day message to the commissioner Leona Lewis writes:
"Animals have suffered enough. If their pain has been deemed immoral within the EU, it must also be immoral outside the EU. To trade in their pain would be hypocrisy..."
The campaign points out that cosmetics animal testing is inhumane and unnecessary forcing animals to suffer painful toxicity tests for no real discernible purpose. Whilst thousands of animals are killed in cosmetics tests each year cruelty free products are readily available using safe ingredients.
Guinea pigs, rabbits, mice and hamsters are commonly used for testing in countries outside the EU including China and the United States. Procedures can involve force-feeding animals with cosmetic ingredients and having them dripped on to their eyes or on to their skin and even forcing pregnant animals to ingest substances to see the effects on offspring.
Leona Lewis and the Humane Society International's campaign is also being supported by Ricky Gervais, Dame Judi Dench, Sir Roger Moore, Virginia McKenna and others...
Additional animal welfare charities such as Animal Aid and BUAV are also running cruelty free cosmetics campaigns hoping to ensure EU legislation offers a resounding no to cruelty testing for cosmetics...
Read more Xperedon Charity News at: http://www.xperedon.com/charity_news
Monday, February 6, 2012
Charity Spotlight: Kidsave
CountryUnited States
Category
Children/Education
Charity Mission Statement
_______________________________________________________________
To create change – so forgotten orphanage and foster kids grow up in families and connected to caring adults.
To create change – so forgotten orphanage and foster kids grow up in families and connected to caring adults.
To donate and read the full charity profile, click here
Friday, January 27, 2012
UGANDA: HIV/AIDS awareness
Small Ugandan charity hopes to lead the way in supporting its community
A Ugandan NGO leader has described how he returned home from living abroad and found his community devastated by HIV/AIDS and so became determined to help...
Andrew Ojambo returned to Uganda from living in the United States and set up the Sherman Health Care Foundation in Kampala, providing health care awareness (sensitization) programmes tackling HIV/AIDS, and promoting voluntary testing and other health services.
"I was inspired when I came back from the United States and found many of my community people in Busia District had passed away leaving most of the children with helpless grandmothers, explains Mr Ojambo.
"Most of the entire community around was found to be HIV/AIDS positive and they need a lot of sensitization to know that they can be still useful to society and support their families and children.
"Therefore I was inspired to begin Sherman Health Care Foundation to help educate and find support for the community."
After successful campaigning against HIV/AIDS in Uganda in the 1990s, which saw steady reductions in infections, in recent years the battle against HIV/AIDS has needed to be stepped up again. In 2011 Uganda was reported as the only country in East Africa that was seeing HIV/AIDS infection rates rising. The Ugandan Ministry of Health identifies complacency about sexual practices as the main cause for the most recent epidemic and recommends educational programmes as the way forward to prevent transmission, along with medical treatment for those who are already infected, as joint priorities...
Along with HIV/AIDS Mr Ojambo describes the health priorities on the ground in Uganda as two fold...
"The challenges faced today in Uganda are Malaria killing many children and HIV/AIDS which has affected families, he says.
"Our communities need a lot of sensitization but due to funds (lack of) to carry out the sensitization projects, many children has been left to die and families loosing parents leaving behind helpless orphans...
"The children are also dropping out of school due to becoming orphans after losing parents because of HIV/AIDS. Hence lack of education support like school fees, books, uniforms, text books and welfare.
"Given funding opportunity we could carry out workshops on HIV/AIDS sensitization in the family communities as well as school communities.
"Also sensitizing the community masses on malaria controls and providing mosquito nets to each household.
"The organisation has the goal of supporting orphans and needy children through education support, providing school fees, uniforms, pens, books and text books."
Sherman Health Care Foundation is seeking individual volunteer partners and ambassadors to help fundraise for the organisation and its partners.
The NGO's programmes include education programmes for women to promote the prevention of HIV infection and for men to ensure they are informed of their potential role and responsibilities when it comes to the prevention of transmitting HIV.
High quality voluntary testing and counselling for pregnant women and care and support services for mothers living with HIV and their families being made available and accessible over the long-term are other priorities.
The charity says it conducts many of these programmes and seminars by health care workers in the community and other gathering places away from the health clinics, to limit the stigma and suspicion surrounding HIV, which is still a major problem at the heart of the challenges that need to be overcome...
Read more Xperedon Charity News at: www.xperedon.com/charity_news
A Ugandan NGO leader has described how he returned home from living abroad and found his community devastated by HIV/AIDS and so became determined to help...
Andrew Ojambo returned to Uganda from living in the United States and set up the Sherman Health Care Foundation in Kampala, providing health care awareness (sensitization) programmes tackling HIV/AIDS, and promoting voluntary testing and other health services.
"I was inspired when I came back from the United States and found many of my community people in Busia District had passed away leaving most of the children with helpless grandmothers, explains Mr Ojambo.
"Most of the entire community around was found to be HIV/AIDS positive and they need a lot of sensitization to know that they can be still useful to society and support their families and children.
"Therefore I was inspired to begin Sherman Health Care Foundation to help educate and find support for the community."
After successful campaigning against HIV/AIDS in Uganda in the 1990s, which saw steady reductions in infections, in recent years the battle against HIV/AIDS has needed to be stepped up again. In 2011 Uganda was reported as the only country in East Africa that was seeing HIV/AIDS infection rates rising. The Ugandan Ministry of Health identifies complacency about sexual practices as the main cause for the most recent epidemic and recommends educational programmes as the way forward to prevent transmission, along with medical treatment for those who are already infected, as joint priorities...
Along with HIV/AIDS Mr Ojambo describes the health priorities on the ground in Uganda as two fold...
"The challenges faced today in Uganda are Malaria killing many children and HIV/AIDS which has affected families, he says.
"Our communities need a lot of sensitization but due to funds (lack of) to carry out the sensitization projects, many children has been left to die and families loosing parents leaving behind helpless orphans...
"The children are also dropping out of school due to becoming orphans after losing parents because of HIV/AIDS. Hence lack of education support like school fees, books, uniforms, text books and welfare.
"Given funding opportunity we could carry out workshops on HIV/AIDS sensitization in the family communities as well as school communities.
"Also sensitizing the community masses on malaria controls and providing mosquito nets to each household.
"The organisation has the goal of supporting orphans and needy children through education support, providing school fees, uniforms, pens, books and text books."
Sherman Health Care Foundation is seeking individual volunteer partners and ambassadors to help fundraise for the organisation and its partners.
The NGO's programmes include education programmes for women to promote the prevention of HIV infection and for men to ensure they are informed of their potential role and responsibilities when it comes to the prevention of transmitting HIV.
High quality voluntary testing and counselling for pregnant women and care and support services for mothers living with HIV and their families being made available and accessible over the long-term are other priorities.
The charity says it conducts many of these programmes and seminars by health care workers in the community and other gathering places away from the health clinics, to limit the stigma and suspicion surrounding HIV, which is still a major problem at the heart of the challenges that need to be overcome...
Read more Xperedon Charity News at: www.xperedon.com/charity_news
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