Ebola wrecks years of aid work in worst-hit countries
Ebola is wrecking years of health and education work in Sierra Leone and Liberia following their civil wars, forcing many charity groups to suspend operations or re-direct them to fighting the epidemic. More than a decade of peace and quickening economic growth had raised hopes ...
Group offers free English to kids in care in Japan and aid to children in Philippines
JOYFUL — the Japan Outreach Youth Foundation for Underprivileged Learners — is a volunteer group that helps children here in Japan and in the founder's homeland of the Philippines.
China dispatches drinking water to Maldives after appeal for help
China is sending a military vessel filled with water to the Maldives to help with a fresh-water crisis on the Indian Ocean archipelago, China's state-run Xinhua news agency said Sunday. A fire at the sole water sewage treatment plant in the capital, Male, has left ...
Video shop worker jolted into career as diversity advocate
When the Great Hanshin Earthquake hit in January 1995, Taro Tamura, then 23, was quick to sense the need in foreign communities for disaster-related information. Three days after the temblor devastated Kobe and the surrounding areas, Tamura launched a volunteer-based disaster information center for foreigners. ...
About 13.6 million people, equivalent to the population of London, have been displaced by conflicts in Syria and Iraq, and many are without food or shelter as winter starts, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday. Amin Awad, UNHCR's director for the Middle East ...
A Japanese man who recently arrived from Liberia will be tested for the deadly virus after he developed a fever and reported to a medical institution in Tokyo.
Cash aid for refugees found to succeed despite donors' doubts
For decades, aid groups have assumed they know what is best for refugees and the poor. A growing body of evidence suggests they are wrong. Both academic research and practical experience, such as with the mass of Syrians fleeing civil war, shows that simply handing ...
China took last place in an aid transparency index of 68 donor nations released on Wednesday, which said the majority of the world's donors were not sharing enough information about their activities. It took last place for the second year in a row in the ...
Afghan-born doctor keeps adopted Japan city healthy while still helping his native land
Since his first year of medical training at the Kyoto University-affiliated Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Afghanistan-born Khaled Reshad has worked harder than others to gain Japanese patients' trust. "I would usually stay at work until 11 p.m. or try to accept patients on weekends," ...
Japan considering aid for North Korea if it seems abductees could be returned
Japan is mulling providing humanitarian aid to North Korea if it judges that the outcome of the North's probe into the abduction issue will lead to the return of abductees, a government source said Friday. But the scale of the assistance is likely to be ...
Ask Maj.-Gen. Wayne W. Grigsby Jr., the top U.S. military officer in Africa, how he thinks U.S. and European-backed African troops are faring in their war on Islamist militants in Somalia, and his answer comes back smartly: "Pretty darn good!" But when "son of Africa" ...
Japan to set up new economic aid programs for Caribbean Community
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday pledged to launch new economic aid programs for the 14 member states of the Caribbean Community to continue support for the countries even after Japan's official development assistance ends. At the first summit meeting between Japan and the community ...
