Aid & Relief Programmes

The Robert T Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (the Stafford Act) authorises the President to issue major disaster or emergency...

'A profound memoir' Daily Telegraph'As revealing as the writing of Oliver Sacks' Mark CousinsOutside the Asylum is Lynne Jones's personal and highl...

The 2004 tsunami was massive in every respect: the earthquake that preceded it was one of the largest ever recorded, the number of people killed or...

Disaster strikes, transforming cities and towns into graveyards and wastelands in a matter of minutes. But help is on its way: news channels and so...

Disaster strikes, transforming cities and towns into graveyards and wastelands in a matter of minutes. But help is on its way: news channels and so...

The Obama Administrations Feed the Future (FTF) Initiative is a U.S. international development program launched in 2010 that invests in food securi...

Formed 50 years ago, in 1961, the Peace Corps sends American volunteers to serve at the grassroots level in villages and towns across the globe to ...

Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF (aka Doctors Without Borders), was founded in 1971 by rebellious French doctors. It is arguably the most respected...

For over 55 years, the United States has played a leading role in global efforts to alleviate hunger and malnutrition and to enhance world food sec...

A PACIFIC NORTHWEST BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION BESTSELLER A fascinating look (Esquire) at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefight...

Twenty years ago, the most common cause of death for medical humanitarians and other aid workers was traffic accidents; today, it is violent attack...

The reconstruction of Kosovo after 1999 was one of the largest and most ambitious international interventions in a post-conflict country. The Unite...

Caring for the wounded in the World War II Pacific Theater posed serious challenges to doctors and surgeons. The thick jungles, remote atolls and h...

Amid all the complicated economic theories about the causes and solutions to poverty, one idea is so basic it seems radical: just give money to the...

Disasters, both natural and man-made, are on the rise. Indeed, a catastrophe of one sort or another seems always to be unfolding somewhere on th...