Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Humanitarian Assistance - period ended 12.15.2006

Humanitarian Assistance/Plain Speaking/Quaker Peace Centre/Madlala-Routledge, Nozizwe/African minister ends decade of denial on Aids/Telegraph.co.uk/London/England/UK/11-Dec-06//Now Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, a plain-speaking 55-year-old Quaker, is being feted as a heroine by health campaigners, Aids sufferers and much of South Africa's media, for daring to end a decade of denial on the disease by the ruling African National Congress. ...

Humanitarian Assistance/Silence/Madlala-Routledge, Nozizwe/Quotes of the week/Citizen/Johannesburg/South Africa/Africa/14-Dec-06//... “I have never met a Quaker who thought that sitting and meditating would solve the world’s problems.”
A Quaker commenting on Deputy Health Minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge’s vision of her job. The deputy minister is herself a Quaker. . ...

Humanitarian Assistance/Religious Diversity/Simiyu, Benson/Protestants to mobilise for 2007 World Social Forum in Kenya/Episcopal News Service/New York/NY/USA/1-Dec-06//... African churches.". Pastor Benson Simiyu of Quaker Friends Church said: "It's a chance for us to let the people know the truth.".

Humanitarian Assistance/Medicine///Practise mature politics, says VP/Kenya Times/Nairobi/Kenya/Africa/16-Dec-06//... The Vice-President was speaking yesterday during the 10th anniversary of Friends Church Sabatia Eye Hospital in Vihiga district where he was the chief guest. ...

Humanitarian Assistance/Immigration/Consensus//Welcome to the new holy land/The Observer/London/England/UK/16-Dec-06//... Except this is a 10th anniversary assembly of the East London Citizens' Organisation (Telco), inspired by American faith-based civic action, with a hydra-headed leadership spearheaded by a Quaker but driven by the involvement of Catholics. On the agenda are a Living Wage Campaign and - the meeting's climax - launching a Strangers Into Citizens' drive, agitating to regularise every illegal immigrant willing to work and abide by the law. ...


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