The phrase "a request for aid" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are formally asking for help or assistance in a particular situation.
Example: "The organization submitted a request for aid to support the victims of the natural disaster."
Alternatives: "a plea for assistance" or "an appeal for help."
In eleven years, countless meetings in Afghanistan have begun this way: with a request for aid.
Talks are expected to concentrate on how legal and political obstacles to providing such assistance would be overcome, if Greece does make a request for aid.
It offers a rough description of the predicament – "I am not from here and would like to get back to where I belong" – along with both a request for aid and the promise of a reward for assistance.
In 1821 Dutch forces intervened, responding to a request for aid from the secular leaders but also seeking to cut off Minangkabau trade with the British at Benkulen (Bengkulu in modern Sumatra) and on Penang Island.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency rejected a request for aid to replace infrastructure destroyed near West by an April 17 fertilizer plant explosion, Gov. Rick Perry's office said Wednesday.
Responding to a request for aid from another country, which French officials did not identify, French helicopters had mounted an effort to rescue foreign personnel from a diplomatic residence in the Cocody neighborhood, not far from Mr. Gbagbo's residence.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz let India know as recently as last week that this country would be receptive to a request for food aid only to have the suggestion turned aside, a Government aide said today.
And he repeated a request for weapons aid.
The decision is a rare piece of good news for Mariano Rajoy's government as it continues to inch towards a request for financial aid.
My mother had the same aversion to busywork and paper craft and such a request for scissor aid would only have annoyed her.
Portugal's five-year debt reached a euro-area record on speculation that a request for financial aid was becoming inevitable, a suggestion that was rejected by the country's prime minister, José Sócrates.
