Sentence examples for humanitarian venture from inspiring English sources

He said the defendants had turned the United Nations program into a "cash cow masquerading as a humanitarian venture".

He set up his colony (the Congo Free State) as a private, ostensibly humanitarian venture aimed at limiting the devastation of slaving and the liquor trade.

To win over the Islamic world in the war of public relations, the Bush administration's message masters devised a theme, "Iraq: From Fear to Freedom," that casts the war as a humanitarian venture to liberate the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein.

Unlike the one-time surgical fistulae repair 'camps' that have become a common humanitarian venture in the last few decades, the MSF model of obstetric fistula care goes beyond just the technical act of surgical repair.

First, for 20 years, he used a food-aid programme called Public Law 480, under which America sold surplus wheat to third-world countries and then used the local-currency payments for humanitarian ventures.

Across borders, exemplars of relationships between nurses in high- and low-income countries established through short-term humanitarian ventures aimed at strengthening clinical and research capacity in low-income countries were abundant [ 47, 64, 71– 80].

Saving time and money, fostering employment and entrepreneurialism, reducing pollution, and enabling farmers to improve the quality of their soil are worthy outcomes for any humanitarian design venture.

Unlike many other humanitarian design ventures, which were initiated by Western designers in the hope of helping people in developing economies, Eco-Fuel Africa was conceived by people, like Mr. Sanga, whose friends and relatives are intended to benefit from it.

BioLite's designers, whose design-studio-cum-testing center is in an airy loft in Brooklyn, have had the benefit of time to refine their stove and to finesse the distribution, marketing and maintenance systems that some humanitarian design ventures have neglected.

The concert was the first of its kind and is recognized as the inspiration behind more recent humanitarian fundraising ventures like 'Band Aid' and 'Live Aid'.

IDEA is part think tank, part venture capital fund, part humanitarian agency, part bureaucracy, and all business.