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How to Help Flood Victims
How to Help Flood Victims:
Speaking from experience, helping victims in any catastrophe is not as easy as jumping in your car and heading to the scene.
Don’t get disheartened. Your help IS appreciated, and sometimes it is just a matter of timing.
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Step 1
Understand the needs of people at various stages. When friends and neighbors hear of the plights of people in a disaster, they tend to clean out their closets and want to contribute in this manner. While used clothing may be needed down the road, they are not needed immediately. Understand the stages of a disaster, and see how you can help at each stage. Continue reading this post…
Kimse Yok Mu helps flood victims in Tajikistan
The aid organization Kimse Yok Mu (Is Anybody There) has extended a helping hand to the people of Tajikistan to meet their humanitarian needs after severe floods struck the country last month.
Kimse Yok Mu sent a team of doctors, a search-and-rescue crew and an emergency governance expert to Uyali, a town in the province of Khatlon, which is among the areas affected most by the floods. Continue reading this post…
Conflict Management
Basics of Conflict Management
Clarifying Confusion About Conflict
Conflict is when two or more values, perspectives and opinions are contradictory in nature and haven’t been aligned or agreed about yet, including:
1. Within yourself when you’re not living according to your values;
2. When your values and perspectives are threatened; or
3. Discomfort from fear of the unknown or from lack of fulfillment.
Conflict is inevitable and often good, for example, good teams always go through a “form, storm, norm and perform” period. Getting the most out of diversity means often-contradictory values, perspectives and opinions. Continue reading this post…
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
On 10 December 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the full text of which appears in the following pages. Following this historic act, the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and “to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories.” Continue reading this post…
Poisons
The danger of poisons:
Persons of any age can become ill if they come into contact with certain medications, household pesticides, chemicals, cosmetics, or plants. However, children, in particular, continue to face a greater risk of unintentional poisoning death and exposure than adults – not only because they are smaller, but, also because they have faster metabolic rates and are less able physically to handle toxic chemicals. Continue reading this post…
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