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Hunger crisis prompts £250,000 funding from Scottish Government.

HORRIFIC scenes of people dying in the streets of India from coronavirus have sparked a fund raising campaign in Scotland that reached its target in…

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Blackford said educating girls saved lives and built stronger families, communities and economies. “An educated female population increases a country’s productivity and fuels economic growth,” he said. The Sunday National has been told that the cuts are coming when the world is facing the biggest education emergency in living memory and, for girls in particular, the chance for an education could now be lost forever. Christian Aid and the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (S...

CHURCHGOERS across Inverclyde are being urged to dig deep and top the near-£40,000 they raised during last years Lenten appeal. Parishioners in Greenock, Gourock and Port Glasgow donated over £39,900 for SCIAFs WEE BOX appeal in 2020. Over £20,000 was raised in Greenock, £8,372 in Gourock and £8,453 in Port Glasgow. With the UK Government committing again to matching donations pound-for-pound, the charity is appealing for more donations this year. SCIAF director Alistair Dutton s...

SCOTS are being urged to remember Syrians whose lives have been torn apart by the country’s brutal war on the 10th anniversary of the conflict today. The Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (Sciaf) says that during that time numbers equivalent to more than twice the population of Scotland have fled their homes. As many as 12,000 children have been killed and wounded and, in what is the biggest refugee crisis on record, Syrians account for almost one-third of all refugees worldwide. ...

HOLYROOD funding is to help three Scots charities deliver "urgent humanitarian relief" to thousands of people left without homes and food by turmoil in northern Ethiopia, it has been announced. Fighting has been raging in the rural Tigray region since November, driving thousands of people from their homes and into destitution. More than 1.3 million people now need urgent aid as conflict continues between Ethiopian government forces and the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front. Tens of thousa...

Generous Scots raise £2.6m for women victims of horrific sexual violence in Democratic Republic of Congo The Daily Record travelled to the ­Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) last year to expose the chilling reality of life there with women and children burnt to death. Gabrielle was one of the victims that spoke to the Daily Record (Image: Simon Murphy/SCIAF) Join thousands of others and get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our daily Criminal Reco...

MORE than £2.6 million has been raised for a charity appeal to help women and children facing hunger, poverty and violence in the Democratic…