News Articles: November 2008
Containers 2 and 3 arrive at Chittagong
Today (26th) two more containers are due at the port of Chittagong. Photograph by Hamid Hajihusseini. Many thanks to him....
First Container Arrives at Chittagong
We have just heard that the first container with medical and educational equipment has arrived in the port of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Look for news of the "Green Bag" in later news items. The photograph was taken by Jason and his description of his visit to Bangladesh can be found on www.travelblog.org/Asia/Bangladesh/blog-3013.html...
Congo humanitarian crisis
Leading UK aid agencies are today (Thursday, November 20) appealing to the public for urgently needed funds to help ease the increasingly desperate plight of people affected by the recent upsurge of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. More than 250,000 people have been forced to flee their homes to escape the fighting in recent weeks, adding to more than one million already displaced as result of the conflict. Agencies that make up the DEC are already delivering life-saving food, water, shelter and emergency...
