World Relief leaders stepping down after guiding evangelical organisation through “tough season”
RNS World Relief heads Scott Arbeiter and Tim Breene are stepping down after a combined 30 years serving the evangelical Christian organisation. The two saw World Relief – one of nine agencies contracted by the government to resettle refugees in the United States – through a tumultuous period in the country’s refugee resettlement program. Scott […]
Half of aid workers report racism at work in past year – poll
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Half of aid workers have experienced racism at work in the past year, with staff and activists saying agencies are failing to combat discrimination in their ranks, a global survey by the Thomson Reuters Foundation and aid consultancy Aid Works found. An online survey of 286 aid workers in 63 countries […]
Syria offensive leaves 55,000 children without aid
Thomson Reuters Foundation An estimated 55,000 Syrian children are cut off from aid and risk starvation after an offensive by President Bashar al-Assad triggered the single biggest displacement of the bloody seven-year war, humanitarian organisations said late last week. Government forces backed by Russian air power have swept through southwestern Syria in the last month […]