Gangs in Haiti are targeting schools and students – UNICEF
Port-au-Prince, HaitiAP UNICEF warned on Tuesday that schools in Haiti are increasingly at the mercy of gangs, with children becoming targets of robbery or ransom. The agency said that at least seven schools in the capital of Port-au-Prince have been forced to pay unidentified gangs in exchange for security in the past two months and […]
Nigeria building collapse toll rises to at least 16; rescuers search on
Lagos, NigeriaReuters Rescuers combed through the rubble of a high-rise building in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos in search of survivors on Tuesday, a day after it collapsed while under construction, as the death toll rose to 16 with scores reported missing. The Lagos state government said it had put its chief architect on indefinite suspension […]
US Methodist anniversary: 250 years later, St George’s reflects on Francis Asbury’s mission, legacy
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, reports on commemorations of the 250th anniversary of Methodist Francis Asbury’s arrival in the US…
In Peru’s Amazon, ‘forgotten’ tribes discover COVID-19 as vaccines arrive
Mangual, PeruReuters Mariano Quisto, a remote community leader in Peru’s dense Amazon rainforest, first learned of the global pandemic in October when health workers arrived by boat at his isolated village with vaccines. “We didn’t know about COVID-19. This is the first we are hearing about it,” Quisto said through a translator from the village […]
Essay: What the 100 non-profits that raised the most money in 2020 indicate about charity today
SHARIQ SIDDIQUI, DAVID CAMPBELL and MIRAE KIM, three scholars of philanthropy and non-profits, weigh in on The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s list of the 100 non-profits that garnered the most funding through charitable donations in the US in 2020…