Charity News from Friday, Jan. 18, 2002CA-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians January/February 2002American Cancer Society | Cancer now accounts for about one in four deaths in the United States, reports Ahmedin Jemal, PhD and colleagues of the American Cancer Society (ACS), in the January/February 2002 issue of CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. CA: A Cancer Journal... AJC Discusses Property Restitution with Lithuanian President American Jewish Committee | The American Jewish Committee met with Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus yesterday to discuss efforts to advance Jewish property restitution in his country. The meeting with Rabbi Andrew Baker, AJC's Director of International Jewish Affairs, ... Red Cross Collaborates with the National Black Catholic Congress to Bolster Much Needed Blood Donations American Red Cross | In a collaboration aimed at increasing minority blood donations, the American Red Cross and the National Black Catholic Congress are partnering to hold blood drives in January 2002 commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday and will hold ... Volcano Refugees Flee to Rwanda: CARE Provides Shelter, Health Care, Sanitation CARE | In response, CARE is mobilizing emergency provisions, such as shelter, blankets, health care and sanitation to meet immediate needs. The agency has dispatched a mobile health clinic to Ruhengeri, and is bringing in additional shelter materials ... Relief Workers Mobilize to Aid Thousands Fleeing Volcanic Eruption in the Congo Catholic Relief Services | The city of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is without electricity and water, and thousands have left the city, which is divided in two by lava flows following yesterday's eruption of Mount Nyiragongo, according to staff reports from ... Kids Go to Bat for Florida Black Bear - Defenders Announces Black Bear Essay Contest Defenders of Wildlife | Students in grades 3 through 7 will get a chance to do something positive for the Florida black bear in an essay contest announced today by Defenders of Wildlife. A unique subspecies of the American black bear, the Florida black bear is ... Kids Stand Up for Sea Otters - Defenders Announces Sea Otter Essay Contest Defenders of Wildlife | Students in grades 6 through 8 will get a chance to do something positive for the threatened California sea otter in an essay contest announced today by Defenders of Wildlife. Defenders has also developed new sea otter lesson plans that are ... Conservation Groups Resist Expansion of Poison Trapping Defenders of Wildlife | Defenders of Wildlife and six western regional conservation organizations urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today to deny USDA's Wildlife Services' (WS) request to expand the use of dangerous poisonous devices known as M-44s in ... Food Crisis Worsening in Northern Afghanistan Doctors Without Borders USA | A nutritional survey conducted by Doctors Without Borders/M‚decins Sans FrontiŠres (MSF) over the past two weeks in the Karai valley, in Faryab province, northern Afghanistan, shows that 1 out of 7 children under five is malnourished. An MSF ... Food For The Hungry Responds To Volcanic Eruption In The Democratic Republic Of The Congo Food for the Hungry | Food for the Hungry released $10,000 from its Rapid Response Fund to help people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who were effected by the eruption of Mt. Food for the Hungry staff are preparing for a possible influx of displaced ...
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