The three schools which Tzu Chi is building in Haiti are due for completion in January 2013 and will accommodate more than 1,800 students. The foundation announced this at a news conference in Taipei attended by four sisters of the Catholic order who will manage the schools and came to Taiwan to express their gratitude.
COLOMBO, February 3, 2012 – Vulnerable communities in North East Sri Lanka are to benefit from a new school and health centre, funded by the European Union through UNICEF.
The new health centre is to play a key role in tackling malnutrition among children aged below five as well as the high levels of anaemia among women. Up to 900 students are to benefit from proper education through the newly opened school.
The European Union (EU) is channelling 50.000 Euros (approx. 120.000 FJD) to the Fiji Red Cross, in the framework of its social mitigation programme under way in the sugar producing areas, to contribute to the relief efforts in the country devastated by the recent natural disaster.
February 7, 2012 (JUBA) - The Abyei Joint Oversight Committee (AJOC) has called on humanitarian organisations to urgently respond to the deteriorating humanitarian situation among those displaced from the contested area in mid-2011 when north Sudan’s military took control of the area by force.
Around 110,000 people fled the area, which was supposed to have held a referendum to decide its future in January 2011. However, disputes over who would be allowed to vote meant that the plebiscite did not go ahead.
