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Melonie Griffiths-Evans, a CityLife/Vida Urbana organizer, recounted her personal experience with foreclosure. Before receiving help from CityLife/Vida Urbana, Griffiths-Evans said that she felt that she had no other option but to enter a homeless shelter. But CityLife/Vida Urbana barricaded her home to prevent the bank from evicting her and her family. Ultimately the bank entered into negotiations with Griffiths-Evans...
...away in Colombo have made available their kitchens and staff to cook meals that are then airlifted to refugees. Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohita Bogollagama appealed for help last week, asking "our friends in the international community" to provide emergency relief aid "initially by way of semipermanent shelter, water purification plants, sanitation facilities and medical assistance...
...half. The program specifically cited Gogan’s efforts to distribute reusable office supplies and furniture to non-profit organizations such as Habitat for Humanity. It also mentioned Harvard’s annual Valentine’s Day cosmetics drive for a Cambridge woman’s shelter, and the “Stuff Sale,” during which students donate unwanted furniture to be resold at the beginning of each school year. The award comes at a time when Harvard is elevating the profile of its green programs, committing to greenhouse gas reductions this summer and staging...
...assistant to clear my calendar for two weeks so I could travel to China,” he said. “I wanted to try some authentic Chinese food.” While in China, Kim met a North Korean refugee for the first time in a shelter. “I felt really disengaged from it all when I came back from China,” said Kim. “I wanted to do something to help the North Koreans.” For much of the talk, Kim read passages from his book on topics ranging...
...capture of one of Colombia's most wanted drug lords - who had, according to the police, been hiding in the country's northwestern jungle "like a dog" under a shelter of palm fronds - has led to major rejoicing in the country's war on drugs. Daniel Rendon Herrera, alias "Don Mario," allegedly headed a vast narcotrafficking operation, run largely out of the country's northwest, that caused a surge in drug violence in the nearby city of Medellin. The activities of his drug empire were allegedly responsible for 3,000 deaths in the last 18 months alone...