When calls went out throughout San Diego County for volunteers to assist those displaced by rapidly spreading wildfires, the response often was more than the 23 emergency shelters could handle. In fact, from major centers such as Qualcomm Stadium and the Del Mar Fairgrounds to smaller quarters set up in rural communities, the emergency shelters were a model of civic cooperation and commitment. »
A commission of three Venezuelan doctors is traveling Ecuadorian lands in order to attend the poorest zones of Quito and the indigenous village of Saraguro, where they are carrying out a patients selection journey for the Miracle Mission. »
Manufacturing in the 21st century doesn’t get any lower-tech — or lower-cost — than this. »
MORUYA man John Gillett is the Eurobodalla’s one and only Angel Flight pilot. His voluntary job consists of flying sick children, who live in isolated areas, to a major hospital. »
Jose Gomez bounds around the patio of a sunny vacation cottage near the beach, giggling as his mother gently tosses him a soccer ball. »
When Lissa Klueter decided to take flying lessons in 2000, her interest was purely recreational. When her husband David began taking lessons in March 2001, it was still just for fun. But now the two Belmont residents, and their plane, are involved in something much larger. Last year the husband and wife team began flying missions for Angel Flight of Virginia, the local chapter of Angel Flight of America, a nonprofit charitable air medical transportation organization that gets patients to the treatment facilities they need. »
More than 10.000 low-income Ecuadorians have undergone eye-surgery for free and recovered their sight thanks to the Operation Miracle program, a project promoted by Cuba and Venezuela in several Latin American countries. »
IT WAS supposed to be a relaxing break in a new and fascinating location, Likoma, an island on Lake Malawi. Then Sonia Waters got chatting to the cleaner and her holiday turned into a dream mission, Malawi Dream, to be precise. That is the name she has given to the nonprofit organisation she has started to help the community she befriended on the island. »
Louie and Stella Sandoval met working in a San Jose apricot orchard when they were 13 and married right out of high school in 1973. When they set out to raise a family, Louie had one goal: He didn’t want his children to have to work as hard as he did, growing up one of 14 in a migrant family. He wanted them to focus on their education. »
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has spoken of the miracle of giving sight to people through cataract operations. »
The image of a young Ethiopian girl ravaged by hunger and 15 minutes from death came to symbolise Live Aid’s 1985 plea for money for the victims of the devastating famine. Birhan Woldu, described as a “miracle baby”, survived the 1984 humanitarian crisis and was seen as a symbol of hope for Ethiopia. »
In the mountains around Kabul, Afghanistan, the Moss brothers — a symbiotic set of identical twin doctors tough to tell apart in peacetime — lost their identities. »
NATO’s engineers are assisting the Pakistan army in ‘Operation Winter Race’ to help survivors of October’s earthquake exposed to harsh weather conditions in the mountainous Himalayan region, the organization’s spokesman said on Friday. »
The “seal woman” is going to work herself out of her financial distress. »
“Dee” had a comfortable life in another state with her three children and a man who made a good living running his own contracting business. Then, she said, he fell in with drugs and a rowdy crowd, and everything fell apart. »
Dave Brown cut his hair. Kassie Wright pounded the address book. Maggie McGaffigan recruited her mom. Chris Rooney might donate blood plasma. »
It’s sad but true fact that the negative side of a situation is always more newsworthy than the positive. In response to your articles, I want to say that there was much that was positive at Century Village in Boca during the days of Hurricane Wilma, and thousands of residents were given aid and support. »
Today the Anastasis is the world’s largest floating non-governmental hospital, with three fully-equipped operating theatres, a dental clinic, an X-ray unit, CT scanner and a laboratory. The ship employs new technology that enables pathologists in the UK to view images of tumors via satellite and make quick diagnoses. »
Haircuts, manicures, pedicures, facials and massages are part of the regular routine for some, a special treat for others. »
Imagine living in a place where you have to sleep on a dirt floor atop a torn bamboo mat. A place where some children walk six miles to and from school to sit on the floor of a crowded room without pens, pencils or books. Mothers stay home to tend to the fields, growing corn and pounding the kernels to make a flour-like substance for dinner. There is no electricity. There is no running water. There is hardly enough food and AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is leaving thousands of children orphaned. Most could never imagine living in these conditions but for residents of Africa, it’s their daily lifestyle and has been for decades. »
They need ice. They need water. They need food. They need clothes and diapers. »
A private pilot in town volunteered his time and airplane to fly reunification flights for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina. »
As a personal chef and Sur La Table cooking teacher, Nanci Wokas of Saratoga is used to preparing gourmet meals with the finest ingredients on state-of-the-art appliances. »
An outpouring of support and generosity swept through the San Fernando Valley and surrounding areas in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. A campuswide fund-raising drive by the students and faculty at California State University, Northridge, netted $84,484, which was presented in a ceremony last week to the American Red Cross. »
The owners of a local salon are working to help a family from the Gulf relocate to Canton. »
Since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf coast last month, the news has been dominated by reports of crime and criticisms about officials’ slow response to the devastation. »
The forgotten towns are now getting relief. As word trickles in about small towns on the Mississippi Gulf Coast that are barely a dot on the map, much like Pontotoc, whose needs have been overlooked, folks in Pontotoc have been responding with truckloads of water, food, and clothes. »
Donated items will be hand-delivered the to Salvation Army distribution centers in Biloxi, Mississippi, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. »
Going door to door and asking for money is not an easy thing to do. »
Earlier this month, the coordinator for The Daily News Newspapers in Education program sent out a request for students to write letters of encouragement to children in Louisiana and Mississippi displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The Daily News received hundreds of letters from students at 13 schools in Longview and Kelso. Here is a sampling of the letters, which also included construction paper cutouts, drawn pictures, pencils and pieces of candy. »