Charity News from Saturday, Apr. 8, 2000Social service agency helps fill cracks in China's iron rice bowlMennonite Central Committee | Amity Foundation, a Chinese agency with Christian roots, is one of the first private social service agencies to help fill the gaps. Through a nine-week job training program run by Amity Foundation with the Nanjing Labor Bureau, Cai Chun Hua has ... Tips left on restaurant tables make big change in Indian students' lives Mennonite Central Committee | Kate Myers, Global Family program coordinator, believes that based on population, India is Global Family program's greatest area of need. This past September Sarker traveled to India and visited the children, their families and the schools ... Forgotten by the world, refugees in Lebanon still dream of better days ahead Mennonite Central Committee | SIDON, Lebanon--Hussein Saleh Miaari feels like a forgotten refugee in a land brimming with refugees forgotten by the world. Saleh Miaari is far from alone in Lebanon. Lessons from Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma Mennonite Central Committee | SELMA, Alabama -- It has been 35 years since the fateful march for voting rights across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. Recently, I accompanied congressional representatives to the cities of Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma, Alabama, on a ... Vocational school in Lebanon offers hope of economic liberation Mennonite Central Committee | SIDON, Lebanon --Stuck in the stifling confines of a Palestinian refugee camp here, students of Salaam School are learning vocational skills to help them achieve some economic liberation. Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) has been the major ... Drug That Curbs Nicotine Craving may do Same for Cocaine Duke University Medical Center | A drug that Duke University Medical Center researchers have successfully used to help some people quit smoking may also help curb cocaine cravings, according to studies conducted in rats.
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