Titled "Designed for eclipse – Designers Unite for UNICEF", the collaborative fashion-for-aid effort features top Malaysian designers Tom Abang Saufi, Khoon Hooi and Gillian Hung who have each created an exclusive limited collection of shoes and handbags for the campaign.
Designers unite for children The fundraising project will continue through to the end of November 2006 with the innovative first collaborative fashion-for-aid effort in Malaysia involving designers Tom Abang Saufi, Khoon Hooi and Gillian Hung.
Two months after resigning under fire for his handling of aid efforts after Hurricane Katrina, Michael D. Brown, the ex-chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, actually left the agency's payroll last week.
During the closing session Friday morning, World Health Organization director-general Dr. Margaret Chan praised the Prime Minister for his efforts to promote accountability for development aid efforts to save the lives of the 289,000 women and 6.6 million children under five who die each year, mostly from preventable causes.
He was also dogged with controversy, ending up in the news more often for his beefs with other rappers and legal problems than for his aid efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Mr. Weeks said that he expected the airport there to become the secondary staging area for the aid efforts.
But if Goma falls, it will be the first time in years that rebels have snatched a major city — and a particularly important one — because it is a staging ground for United Nations aid efforts that are helping keep millions alive.
Until December, Kenya was known as an anchor state in East Africa, and it remains a base of operations for extensive aid efforts in some of its more turbulent neighbors, like Somalia, Sudan and Congo.
He said that the program was succeeding, and that if more than $155 million -- its current allocation -- was needed, his agency would try to get more money from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, a subsidiary of Empire State that independently controls $1.3 billion in still uncommitted federal funds for 9/11 aid efforts.
But the Turks are far less interested in the U.N. when it comes to handing over Turkish goods and cash for U.N. aid efforts.
