The project on completion will benefit approximately 155,000 farmers, mainly those with small land holdings in Rajasthan (Indian Express).
A recent Oxfam report on low-wage workers – the majority of whom are women - estimated that an increase in the federal minimum wage would benefit approximately 25m Americans, lift nearly 6m people out of poverty and give 3m single parents a raise.
To date, USAID/OFDA has provided 15,480 rolls of plastic sheeting to meet post-earthquake shelter needs, "benefiting approximately 774,000 people," according to government reports.
UNICEF will be supporting 2,000 schools benefiting approximately 300,000 children.
The Dubai Cares donation will benefit approximately 150,000 school children along with primary school teachers, parent teacher associations, school management committees, education civil servants and NGO's programmes.
Mozambique's child-friendly schools programme, which is part of the Schools for Africa initiative, now covers all primary schools in seven districts, benefiting approximately 750 schools and over 300,000 school-age children.
Jamat Zalingei IDP camp, near Geneina, West Darfur was chosen for the trial in Sudan where 200 households were identified, benefiting approximately nearly 550 women and just over 450 men.
Such an approach offers the prospect of a personalised combined chemo RT intervention with reduced treatment-associated toxicity and/or improved outcome that could benefit approximately half of all patients with LSCC who are currently treated with RT.
UNICEF supported more than 60 per cent of the affected schools as part of the emergency response to revitalize education in 2,740 affected primary schools, benefiting approximately 410,000 primary school children, along with 343 Early Child Development centres reaching 10,000 under five children.
