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. »