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Humanitarian activist Basma al-Khateeb will tell you that Iraq doesn't need any more reconstruction projects or development programs now. International donor funds are better spent, she says, on emergency aid like food, water and medicine. "We are facing a huge humanitarian catastrophe," says al-Khateeb, who works on gender and youth issues for the Iraq al-Amal Association, an Iraqi nongovernmental organization. "No one is acknowledging how big the humanitarian catastrophe...
...past "democratically elected" governments in Pakistan did only one thing "for" the people, and that was loot them of their hard-earned money and spend it on themselves. Musharraf has finally stood up to save the nation from further misery. BASMA ABDI Karachi...
...wasn't just clown fish and brilliant anemones she discovered down there. Basma was alarmed to find Aqaba's reefs full of litter. She and some friends founded JREDS in 1993 as a diving club, but it became an environmental outfit, and Basma sharpened her interest by taking marine science during a semester at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts...
Through signs, pamphlets and exhibits, Basma's group teaches the Jordanian public how to use the sea without damaging it. Boaters are told not to drop anchors that can break the reef, and divers are discouraged from snatching souvenir corals or feeding the fish. JREDS also organizes cleanup dives and recruits schoolchildren to sweep trash off the beaches...
...JREDS lost a fight against construction of an Aqaba oil refinery, and though the society helped win a law against traps that ensnare precious coral fish as well as edible species, many fishermen still use the devices. Zipping by a culprit as she rides on a royal pleasure boat, Basma gives a shrug that is part resignation, part stiffened resolve. But mostly stiffened resolve...