For instance, the Coca-Cola Company sent reporters an e-mail on Wednesday afternoon describing how its philanthropic arm has pledged $1 million to "community relief efforts" in the Northeast.
But his most provocative proposal was to abolish the Agency for International Development and shift responsibility for overseeing $7 billion a year in economic and humanitarian aid to a quasi-governmental foundation, which would deliver grants to private and community relief groups.
As a South African, having witnessed protest theater in my early teens, there is an enormous difference between the catharsis that provides a community relief, where they go home relieved, and the catharsis that inspires and provokes change.
In Houston, two CPD affiliates, the Texas Organizing Project Education Fund and Workers Defense Project, along with other trusted organizations, established the Harvey Community Relief Fund to pool resources and coordinate their distribution to meet the needs of the most vulnerable.
The country's marquee megachurches earmark large portions of their budgets and volunteer manpower for services to their local communities and relief work abroad.
The Spanish governor, José de Zúñiga y la Cerda, had advance warning of their arrival, and withdrew civilians and food supplies into the fortress, and also sent messengers to nearby Spanish and French communities for relief.
In the Mansehra district alone, more than 160,000 thousand people had to evacuate from valleys and communities to relief camps set up by Government of Pakistan, UN agencies and NGOs.
"It is a simple matter of the government thumbing its nose at the international community and then coming to the international community for relief," said Tom Malinowski, the Washington advocacy director at Human Rights Watch.
About 250 community leaders and workers were killed in 16 towns and villages, according to Rasul, an engineer who runs a community-based relief project in the valley.
