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12/16/2008 - China Update: Winter Clothing Distributed to Community Hard-Hit by May Earthquake
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More than six months after an earthquake devastated communities within China’s Sichuan Province, FH is continuing to provide relief and rehabilitation assistance to quake survivors.
12/09/2008 - North Kivu (DRC) Assessment Team Update
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Thanks to everyone for your prayers and support for our Relief Unit assessment team in North Kivu, DRC.
11/25/2008 - Thoughts for Thanksgiving
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As I prepare to head to my family’s home for Thanksgiving, where within one meal I will likely eat enough calories to sustain me for a week (or more), I am reminded of a farmer I met two weeks ago during a visit to South Sudan.
11/21/2008 - Reflections on the Crisis in Congo by Lindsay Branham, FH Communications Coordinator
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The border was hauntingly empty. No military drenched in green patrolling. No AKs slung over shoulders. No Swahili floating through the air. Just the pitter-patter of rain falling to the ground and turning the dirt road into a river.
11/19/2008 - New Wells Offer Hope to Flood Victims in Bangladesh
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Recently FH/Bangladesh was able to help families in Haimchar by establishing 23 new tube-wells to provide clean drinking water.
10/20/2008 - Launch of FH-Haiti
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On October 3, in cooperation with several international NGOs, Food for the Hungry officially launched a new program office in Haiti. Through health, child development and church strengthening programs, FH-Haiti is planning to make a significant impact in responding to the call of ending physical and spiritual hungers across several communities of Haiti.
9/19/2008 - Update on China Earthquake
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Just two hours north of Chengdu (where the FH-China team is based) is the city of Jiangyou, where FH has concentrated its relief efforts since the May 12th earthquake struck the Sichuan Province. Jiangyou is located just 20 km outside of Beichuan, the community that was the hardest hit by the earthquake.
9/09/2008 - Renewed violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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Violence has again erupted in the North Kivu Province of the DRC. Renegade General Laurent Nkunda’s CNDP has begun attacking Congolese Government positions in a direct breach to the Goma Agreement, a peace accord signed in January. This new influx of violence is causing fresh waves of displacement in North Kivu, already swelling with over 800,000 displaced people.
8/29/2008 - Crisis in Georgia
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Food for the Hungry is monitoring the events unfolding in the Republic of Georgia. We have been talking to partners on the ground and will send a team or respond if we feel the situation calls for our presence.
8/18/2008 - Update on Myanmar
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In a recent letter, an FH partner in Myanmar shares the heartbreaking stories of the victims of Cyclone Nargis he has met through his relief efforts. He writes of one man who lost his wife and five children in the cyclone. With tears in his eyes, this man conveyed his thanks to the FH partner by expressing that his deceased family had sent him blessings through the relief assistance received.
