Aid

Is there anyone following the news in Turkey who is not worried about the country's future and its economy in terms of income distribution? Specifically, is anyone not troubled by the government's most recent decisions on the education system?

Turkey is a leading country in providing humanitarian assistance to the needy across the world, Deputy Prime Minister Recep Akdağ said on Aug. 19.

Turkey's Foreign Ministry issued a World Humanitarian Day message on Aug.

We have learnt that Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım will announce the "attraction centers" program, including new economic incentives, this week.

A vicious combination of war, cholera and hunger has left 80 percent of Yemeni children in desperate need of aid, the United Nations has said said.

"Nearly 80 percent of Yemen's children need immediate humanitarian assistance," the executive directors of three U.N. agencies said in a joint statement released at the end of a two-day visit on July 25.    

Japan has pledged to fund USD 1 billion in the next two years of UN development activities and has thus become one of the world's largest donors to support development, the French press reported.

According to the ELSTAT, 35,6% of the Greece’s population or 3.789.300 people were at risk of poverty or social exclusion last year, showing a slight decrease compared to the previous year (3.828.500 people, representing 35,7% of the population).

One in every eight people in Turkey is in need of aid, according to statistics released by the Family and Social Policies Ministry upon a parliamentary question submitted by independent Ankara lawmaker Aylin Nazlıaka. 

The ministry said social aid was given to a total of 10,610,928 people in 2016, daily Birgün reported on June 23.

It was December in northern Syria and the temperature was dropping fast. Local militias fighting the Islamic State had suffered heavy casualties after a tough battle, and U.S. special operations forces urgently needed to get blankets to their partners. They turned to a small charity run by Jim Hake, a former venture capitalist who made his fortune on tech startups in California.

Narrowing the gap between rich and poor is key to avoiding a destructive rise in populism, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on April 22 as he laid out a plan to boost private investment in Africa.