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UNHCR Jordan: Zaatari Refugee Camp - Factsheet, December 2020 Format nearly 20% under five years old 19,243 children enrolled in 32 schools 58 community centers offering activities 30% female-headed households 4,361 weekly health consultations on average 13,773 refugees have active work permits, with 23% female Zaatari Camp is under the joint administration of the Syrian Refugee Affairs Directorate (SRAD) and UNHCR. As the lead agency for refugees in Jordan, UNHCR is also covering Camp Coordina...

UNHCR Asia and the Pacific COVID-19 External Update (15 January 2021) Format Islamic Republic of Iran • UNHCR is implementing the second round of Cash for Basic Needs (COVID-19) assistance in conjunction with the Bureau for Aliens and Foreign Immigrants Affairs (BAFIA). Since refugees are now legally allowed to open a bank account, this joint cash-based intervention (CBI) is being implemented through the “bank transfer” modality. Under this project, some 3,400 households will receive a on...

The Aggie The student organization is slated to offer housing in the 2021-22 school year UC Davis students Ashley Lo, Allie O’Brien and Katie Shen will be opening Aggie House, a transitional living space for students who are homeless or experiencing housing insecurity, during the 2021-2022 school year. Aggie House will be funded by a Basic Needs Student Innovation Grant which seeks grant proposals for student-run basic needs initiatives. Lo, a third-year economics and political science double...

Area nonprofits awarded recovery fund grants BOISE, Idaho (KIFI)-The Idaho Community Foundation announced an additional $527,000 from the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund for Idaho will be used to help community organizations across the state help low-income individuals and families. Nearly $1.9 million has been awarded since the pandemic began.  Most of the grants were awarded between April and June.  After observing a surge in COVID-19 cases in late 2020, the Steering Committee released ...

Jaida Hampton, a 2020 UK graduate, was a political science major and active in summer protests over the killing of Breonna Taylor. Black students have only been present, much less welcomed, for less than half of the University of Kentucky’s 155-year history. Seventy-one years ago, Lyman T. Johnson won a lawsuit that helped integrate the all-white school. Even though he never graduated from UK, and never intended to, his actions helped future generations of Black students. However, despite ...

Advertisement CEMEX USA has announced that it has reached a milestone in its efforts to support the fight against COVID-19, delivering grants this year from its philanthropic arm, the CEMEX Foundation, to more than 80 non-profit organisations nationwide to help provide food, shelter, safety and education in communities deeply affected by the pandemic. As the coronavirus began to spread across the US in March 2020, CEMEX USA employees sought opportunities to help by identifying non-profit organ...

HOUSTON, Dec. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- CEMEX USA announced today it has reached a milestone in its efforts to support the fight against COVID-19, delivering grants this year from its

Happy HAAM holidays: Yuletide tunes from a dozen Austin musicians Austin 360 Tis the day before Christmas, and all through the town, music still echoes, with holiday sounds. The good folks at the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians brought a little joy to the season by gathering yuletide tunes from a dozen local artists and stringing them together in this 38-minute video. "2020 was a year that none of us saw coming, but our community came together in so many ways," HAAM CEO Reenie Collins wrot...

UNHCR - Iraq Fact Sheet (December 2020) Format 78,202 Refugee and IDP women and girls have received sanitary kits since April 7,904 IDPs and refugees received remote legal assistance in November +375,000 Persons of concern have benefitted from COVID-19 awareness raising since April Working with Partners Through the Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan (3RP), UNHCR leads the humanitarian response for Syrian refugees in Iraq in close coordination with humanitarian actors and government authoritie...

2020-2021 Community Impact Grant Program – United States 120SHARES The Community Impact Grant Program (formerly the Venture Grant Program), was established in 2003 by the United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley to focus resources on the priority health and human care needs that matter most to the people of their communities. Eligible Activities The intent of this program is to respond to local priority needs as established through the United Way Community Needs process, including: Children ...