I'd like to introduce a program that could help with that problem; it's called Work Force America. ...more

October 31, 2009

Myanmar needs more than food and shelter. Relief groups say the country needs human expertise for everything from purifying drinking water to mental health counseling - and right now, those experts can't get to the hard-hit delta. ...more

June 1, 2008

SEBRING — It's just a refrigerated trailer, but for one Desoto City civic group, it's a brand spanking-new humanitarian effort they're trying out in Florida. The Fraternal Order of Eagles' Disaster Relief Trailer, parked in front of the club's hall, already has several pallets full of emergency ration bars and water. Joe Waters of the Eagles in Sebring said this was one of two stationed in Florida, with the other one in the Ocala area. The trailer would go wherever the county's Emergency Operations Center tells them to go. "If they were in need of it ... we would take it anywhere they want," Waters said. ...more

May 19, 2008