We may only be a pebble in the pond but we hope to send out more and more ripples, get the work done and bring our villages back to where they ought to be, with or without the help of the big aid agencies.
She founded Waging Peace, a London-based group campaigning on Darfur, and Network for Africa, a charity working with survivors of genocide after the big aid agencies move elsewhere.
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As a coalition of businesses, charities, celebrities and big aid donors starts to act on a new strategy for malaria, scientists this week announced two breakthroughs in understanding the genetics of the parasites that spread it.
Eleven of the biggest aid agencies working in the continual crisis of war and hunger in southern Sudan have left the region because of a dispute with the main rebel group over their operations.
The U.S. is one of the biggest aid givers to Egypt, and they could make it one of their conditions".
But some members, including some of the biggest aid agencies, are adamant that the coalition must end.
Oxfam, one of the biggest aid organizations, said in a statement released Monday night that it now considered a response to the Syria crisis its No. 1 priority.
Four of the biggest aid agencies – Oxfam, World Vision, Action Against Hunger and Save the Children – acknowledged as much in a joint statement last month pointing to a "huge gap in funding for aid projects aimed at preventing the deepening food crisis in the Sahel".
