Sentence examples for voluntary aid from inspiring English sources

VADs they were called: voluntary aid detachments.

But personal, voluntary aid is no substitute for an effective public response to disaster.

15 Strato; super; shield; submarine; cinder cone? 1 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran). 2 Voluntary aid detachment.

Updated at 2.16pm GMT 1.13pm GMT Australian killed in Syrian cross fire An Australian voluntary aid worker has died in cross gunfire in Syria, according to the Australian.

Brittain could not join Roland at the front, but she could put herself at the service of men like him by joining the Voluntary Aid Detachment as a nurse.

Despite assurances from the authorities that private donors would be given free access to cyclone-affected areas, he and at least 21 others were later arrested for their participation in the voluntary aid effort.

In 1987 Varella started weekly visits to the prison to offer voluntary Aids prevention work.

The wicked Blair is charged with having sent his eldest son to a grammar school, when in fact Euan was consigned to a voluntary aided school.

Under the current structure, academies, foundation, voluntary aided and foundation special schools have the power to set their own term dates, while local authorities are responsible for setting term dates for community and voluntary controlled schools.

Church schools come in two types: the terrifically popular "voluntary aided" ones, which can select their pupils according to the professed faith of their parents; and the "voluntary controlled" ones, which cannot select on this basis.

In Nottingham the process was fraught, in part because proposals would have led to different holidays in academies, voluntary aided and community schools – and different holidays in schools in the city and in the surrounding areas.