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...Ending this cycle of emigration won't be easy. Aileen Constantino-Peñas, who works for the NGO Atikha, says part of the problem is that most children of migrant workers "do not have the slightest idea of the difficult situations their parents face." More and more women are leaving to work in private homes as domestic helpers, a job that can mean putting up with long hours and cramped living quarters - and, all too often, abusive employers. But few of the grim details get shared in the regular phone calls parents make home to their kids. Through workshops...
...will have hours of free time that you’ll spend agonizing over what Facebook gift to send to that thick biddy in Straus B. In high school, you mostly spent your time padding your resume by competing in the Tri-Valley Quiz Bowl Tournament, creating a (fake) NGO to bring snorkels and inflatable baby pools to inner-Mongolia, and teaching dyslexic ponies to read Braille (Braille works for that, right?). College, however, should be punctuated with pathetic attempts to pad your social resume...
...armed groups alike - apart from their utility for end users in the developed world. Nkunda, for example, is widely believed to be profiting from the transit of minerals through areas he controls (he claims he is only policing the area to protect ethnic Tutsis). Global Witness, a London based NGO, sent researchers to the the provinces of North and South Kivu this summer and reported back that Hutu armed groups as well as members of the country's armed forces were profiting from the trade in cassiterite, or iron ore. The group wants to exert more pressure on Western governments...
...according to humanitarian NGO the International Rescue Committee, the war in Congo - which escalated into a full-scale civil war in 1998 that lasted until 2003, and still erupts periodically, as now - has killed 5.4 million people, mostly through hunger and disease...
...grew to love its unhurried rhythms and the unfailing good humor of its people, he didn't set out to write about it. Instead, his first stab at fiction produced a dense, depressing investigation of child sex-trafficking in Asia, an issue Cotterill has also delved into as an NGO worker. That novel sold "about two copies," Cotterill says. He realized a lighter touch might prove more palatable to readers...