Every Ramadan for the past 11 years, our family has volunteered to assist the Foundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary Help (FAITH, a local shelter and food pantry) with its weekly distribution of food staples to local families in need.
But on top of that, people of faith -- locals and non-locals alike -- are slowly trickling into affected neighborhoods, offering aid of their own kind.
Ms. Jacobs viewed cities as self-regulating organisms, and placed her faith in local residents.
One wall is covered with messages of love and faith from local schoolchildren.
The opposition party is bigger and younger than the Conservatives, and has an almost cultish faith in local campaigning.
What is more, Higginson would have to win back the faith of local freedpeople, who had chafed at Hunter's unorthodox recruitment tactics that spring.
So it's no surprise that the general manager of a Tindle paper, the Glamorgan Gem, should express her faith in local weekly papers.
Spurring the trend, experts say, are the very obsessions that drive New York parents to distraction: the increasing competitiveness of the college entrance process, the introduction of more rigorous national curriculum standards, and a lack of faith in local public schools.
Television in Haiti resembles the nation's other underdeveloped industries, like agriculture, manufacturing and construction, in at least one way: Humanitarian aid organizations lose faith in local solutions, and the country's business and political elite never had any.
Thanks to a widespread lack of faith in local institutions, UN forces still provide vital backup to the police and army in their efforts to deal with land disputes and to limit mob justice.
