By OMAR AKOUR Associated Press AMMAN (AP) — The United Nations regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syrian crisis said Thursday that the country's death toll from last week's deadly earthquake is likely to rise further as teams scramble to remove rubble in...
Turkey - Syria EarthquakeBy SARAH EL DEEB, ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — The earthquakes that killed more than 39,000 people in southern Turkey and northern Syria produced more grieving and suffering along with extraordinary...
Turkey - Syria EarthquakeANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — Rescuers on Tuesday were working to reach people under the rubble in three provinces hit hard by the devastating quakes that hit Turkey and Syria last week. The death toll from the magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 quakes that...
Turkey - Syria EarthquakeADIYAMAN, Turkey (AP) — Thousands who survived the earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria a week ago are pondering what comes next. While many have been evacuated from the devastated region, others are staying by wrecked homes and as the...
News about grants, giftsBy MEHMET GUZEL, FAY ABUELGASIM and TANYA TITOVA Associated Press ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — When war broke out in Ukraine, Aydin Sisman's relatives there fled to the ancient city of Antakya, in a southeastern corner of Turkey that borders Syria....
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Richard Hackett In the South Pacific there are no roads, power lines, or phone systems to connect the thousands of smaller, less populated, islands to the same health care, educational and economic development services offered on...
By Krystin Gollihue In 2010, a magnitude 7.0Mw earthquake hit Haiti. Nearly 1.5 million lost their homes, but in the immediate aftermath, nonprofits were on the ground filling the gap between disaster and international aid. Kerri Murray was on the ground in 2010, and...
By Sandy Cyr In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, two brothers traveled to the storm-ravaged area to help in one of the ways that they know best: feeding people. But what started out as one intention ended up changing the way they thought about giving back....
By David Mueller When the Boxing Day Tsunami hit Thailand in 2004, David Campbell knew he wanted to help, he just wasn’t sure how. With a long career as a leader in the technology sector, Campbell had a hunch that if he could get to the affected areas, he could use...
As the Philanthropy Journal moves through a second cycle of our editorial calendar, we will periodically republish articles from our archive. Please enjoy this piece on Islamic Relief USA that first published in April 2016. By Charlena Wynn Natural and...
