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Direct Relief International: Healthy People, Better World
505 members
$1,065 donated
$1,065 donated
- 67 recruited
- $175 raised
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- Holiday Person Care Packs Volu...
Direct Relief International
Thursday, December 10 at 10:00am
Direct Relief International Drop by our warehouse and help us assemble thousands of personal care packs to be distributed to more than 30 social service agencies throughout Santa Barbara County.
Time:10:00AM Thursday, December 10th
Location:Direct Relief International
Direct Relief International Our partners Floating Doctors had a nice piece on CNN the other day. We equipped them with a good deal of their on-board medical supplies.
Source: edition.cnn.com
The dream started inside a gray canvas backpack.
Direct Relief International We're all trying to stay healthy and avoid the flu here at Direct Relief. What do you - our fans - do to ward off the flu?
Direct Relief International is the largest international charity in California during 2009 and the 21st largest in the United States in terms of private support received, out of a total of 53 organizations in the International category, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s annual P...
Direct Relief International Great story from one of our program officers in Nairobi about the importance and impact of fistula repair surgery.
Source: www.directrelief.org
While traveling in Kenya, Africa program officer Lindsey Pollaczek delivered this moving dispatch about a woman's journey to healing through obstetric fistula repair.
Source: www.kclu.org
How would Santa Barbara County deal with a crisis so big it would overwhelm the county's medical facilities? A unique volunteer program has been created to create a corps of medical personnel which could help out during a disaster, or epidemic. KCLU's Lance Orozco has the story.
Direct Relief International Members of the Santa Barbara County Medical Reserve Corps packing their custom-designed emergency medical packs in our warehouse this afternoon.
Direct Relief International New YouTube video: Program Officer Matt MacCalla interviews Curt Bradner of partner organization Thirst-Aid about bringing clean, purified water to rural populations in Myanmar using Thirst-Aid's simple but effective solutions. Check it out!
Source: www.youtube.com
Program Officer Matt MacCalla interviews Curt Bradner of partner organization Thirst-Aid about bringing clean, purified water to rural populations in Myanmar using Thirst-Aid's simple but effective solutions. Learn more at www.DirectRelief.org.
Direct Relief International Note with photo from our partners Australian Aid International, responding in the Philippines: As the local population are forced to live and move about the flooded areas the risk of polluted waters causing outbreaks of infections grows everyday.
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We're participating in America's Giving Challenge, put on by The Case Foundation! You can help us win $50,000 by making Direct Relief the cause with the greatest number of donors. Learn more and support us by going to http://apps.facebook.com/causes/818/7330
Source: apps.facebook.com
Direct Relief International Photo from our warehouse this morning: additional medical aid ready to go out to Vietnam partners affected by Typhoon Ketsana.
Direct Relief International Our fall newsletter (The Solutions Issue) is out now! Learn about five things that are working now in delivering healthcare worldwide, preparation for flu season, and more. Download it now at the link below.
Source: www.directrelief.org
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Direct Relief International Working through the weekend on these multiple emergencies. We're also getting in touch with our Indian partners who've been affected by several days of severe flooding.
Direct Relief International Had success today in gathering more of our partners' medical needs in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Samoa today, and are working hard to build emergency airlifts to these areas. We're also paying close attention to Typhoon Parma, which could hit the Philippines this Saturday.
Direct Relief International Heartbreaking photos from Reuters AlertNet (their humanitarian news branch, for those not in the know) from this week's Asian emergencies.
Source: members.alertnet.org
