Zimbabwe's own request for aid, outlined in a petition last month to the United Nations Development Program, makes it clear that outside help is essential.
And Scott Larimer, whose son, John, was killed in the Aurora shootings, said he fears that the structure in place in Newtown will leave families of victims "hat in hand," standing in line and petitioning for the aid that was meant for them.
School officials in Miami have petitioned for federal aid.
I called out, and told her about a letter that I'd written petitioning for financial aid, how I'd used her advice and successfully managed to get funded.
In 1454 rebel Prussian groups petitioned Casimir IV of Poland for aid against the Knights.
The government petitioned international financial institutions for aid and then imposed a stringent austerity program that went beyond even the requirements for the bailout from the International Monetary Fund.
In 1566 he wrote the original draft of the noblemen's petition to the governor-general, Margaret of Parma, for an end to religious persecution, and he began to negotiate for aid from Protestant leaders in France and the Rhineland.
This is the justification for aid programmes.
See if you qualify for aid.
The law gives any municipality that has 10,000 to 125,000 residents and is contained within a larger school district the right to petition for its own separate school district, financed by state education aid.
