17Jan/16

Chakkorathukulam to Show the way in Organ Donation – The New Indian Express

Chakkorathukulam to Show the way in Organ Donation
The New Indian Express
“Some residents have already expressed their willingness to donate their organs and door-to-door campaigns will be organised to attract more people to cadaver organ donation. We had earlier organised blood donation and eye donation campaigns in the …

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17Jan/16

UN: $40 billion of humanitarian aid needed due to conflicts, disasters – Daily Sabah


Daily Sabah

UN: $40 billion of humanitarian aid needed due to conflicts, disasters
Daily Sabah
Georgieva said zakat, the annual donation many Muslims are religiously required to make as a basic tenet of the Islamic faith, raises between $300 billion and $500 billion a year, and earmarking just 1 percent of that for humanitarian aid would go “a

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17Jan/16

Michael has survived cancer and a heart bypass, now he’s waiting for his third … – thejournal.ie


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Michael has survived cancer and a heart bypass, now he’s waiting for his third
thejournal.ie
Earlier this month, the Irish Kidney Association expressed its disappointment in the decrease of transplants from living donors carried out last year. In 2014, there were 112 deceased kidney transplants from 63 donors. In 2015, there were 81 donors and

17Jan/16

Family Faces Life-Threatening Heart Disease with Courage and Grace – NBCNews.com


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Family Faces Life-Threatening Heart Disease with Courage and Grace
NBCNews.com
Stacy Bingham calls it her “D Day”: June 8, 2012. It’s the day she and her husband, Jason, learned that all five of their children had a deadly condition called dilated cardiomyopathy or markers for it. Their eldest daughter, Sierra, had received a

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17Jan/16

How nonprofit newsrooms avoid conflicts – and their appearance – Philly.com


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How nonprofit newsrooms avoid conflicts – and their appearance
Philly.com
What it didn’t say, and what infuriated teachers’ union leaders when they found out, was that some of the donors backed efforts to turn public schools into private and charter schools, the Washington Post reported. In 2010, critics … The nonprofit

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17Jan/16

Somalia received Saudi aid the day it cut ties with Iran: document – Reuters


Reuters

Somalia received Saudi aid the day it cut ties with Iran: document
Reuters
Somalia’s Finance Minister Mohamed Aden Ibrahim declined to comment on the pledges, but said any financial assistance from Saudi Arabia was not related to Mogadishu’s stance against Iran. “Our relationship with Saudi Arabia was long-standing and is not …

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