Actualités ac252/aid
First aid courses
Wed, 23 Oct 2024 23:43:00 GMT
We offer courses for people at work, parents and anyone who wants to learn the simple skills needed to help in a first aid emergency. If you're not sure where to start, call 0344 871 8000 to talk to ...
Psychological First Aid: How It's Used
Sat, 19 Oct 2024 17:00:00 GMT
Psychological first aid (PFA) is a process for helping people after they experience a natural disaster or traumatic event. The goal of PFA is to provide safety, stability, and resources to people in ...
French conference on aid to Lebanon raises $1 billion in pledges
Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:00:00 GMT
Representatives from 70 countries and organizations gathered in Paris on Thursday to pledge $800 million in humanitarian aid and $200 million for Lebanon's security forces. France's President ...
Blinken Announces Another $135M in US Aid to Palestinians
Thu, 24 Oct 2024 08:14:00 GMT
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced an additional $135 million in American aid to the Palestinians during a trip to the Middle East. Blinken left the U.S. Monday for a ...
UN food agency failed to act as U.S. aid was looted in Ethiopia
Thu, 17 Oct 2024 17:00:00 GMT
On a scorching March afternoon last year, an American aid worker was sitting on a stool in the town of Sheraro in the war-scarred Ethiopian region of Tigray, sipping traditional roasted coffee ...
Israel Allows Some Aid Into Northern Gaza After U.S. Warning
Tue, 15 Oct 2024 16:59:00 GMT
By Matthew Mpoke Bigg A day after the United States said it had told Israel that a failure to allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza could prompt a cutoff of military supplies, one of the starkest ...
Upgrading the Plumbing of the International Aid System
Wed, 16 Oct 2024 06:20:00 GMT
In 2023, according to the Global Humanitarian Overview, aid organizations faced a $37 billion funding shortfall to help crisis-affected communities. Yet in that year, the World Bank’s International ...
‘We don’t want aid. We want dignity.’ Air-dropped aid kills 3-year-old Palestinian boy in southern Gaza, family says
Sun, 20 Oct 2024 17:00:00 GMT
Sami Ayyad, a 3-year-old Palestinian boy, was killed by air-dropped aid in the southern city of Khan Younis on Saturday, according to his relatives, as the humanitarian crisis spawned by the ...
Israeli attacks on aid convoys in Gaza persist, U.N. says
Wed, 16 Oct 2024 23:00:00 GMT
Israeli troops have opened fire on U.N. aid convoys to northern Gaza at least four times in three months, according to U.N. and other humanitarian officials, damaging the vehicles and narrowly ...