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== CRISES ==
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Name: Earthquake in Haiti
Kind: Natural Disaster
Location: Leogane, Haiti
Date and Time: 6:53 local time (21:53 UTC) 12 January 2010
Human Impact: 316,000 people had died, 300,000 had been injured and 1,000,000 made homeless
Economic Impact: 2,300,000,000 USD
Resources Needed: Food, Volunteers, Donations
Ways to Help: Donations
Embedded Images: http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2010/haiti_time_z/haiti_time_z_01.jpg
Embedded Videos: http://www.youtube.com/embed/3l9B1dvfT-o
External Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Haiti_earthquake, http://www.dec.org.uk/haiti-earthquake-facts-and-figures
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Name: Iraqi Refugee Crisis
Kind: Refugee Crisis, societal crisis
Location: Iraq, other parts of the world
Date and time: 1950-ongoing
Human Impact: displacement of Iraqi civilians
Economic Impact: deteriorating economy, high inflation, high unemployment
Resources Needed: estimated $60 million to assist displaced Iraqis
Ways to Help: charities, volunteer, donations
Embedded Images: http://www.asianews.it/files/img/IRAQ_iraq_refugees_IN_SYRIA.jpg
Embedded Videos: http://www.youtube.com/embed/YaGR9W9zMrk
Social Networks: http://www.facebook.com/IraqiRefugeeAssistanceProject
External Links: http://refugeerights.org/
Organizations: Red Crescent
People: Mustafa Barzani
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Name: Chernobyl disaster
Kind: Nuclear accident
Location: Chernobyl, Ukraine
Date and Time: 01:23 (Moscow Time UTC+3) 26 April 1986
Human Impact: Thyroid cancer among children (more than 4000 cases reported). Psychological problems among the affected population -- survivors feel "fatally flawed" and use illicit drugs and have unprotected sex. 28 emergency workers died from acute radiation syndrome. 15 patients died from thyroid cancer in the years following the disaster. Up to the year 2005 more than 6000 cases of thyroid cancer were reported in children and adolescents exposed at the time of the accident, a number that is expected to increase. Down syndrome peaked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Human_impact
Economic Impact: In Belarus the total cost over 30 years is estimated at US$235 billion (in 2005 dollars). In the 2003-2005 report, The Chernobyl Forum stated taht between 5% an d7% of government spending in Ukraine is sitll related to Chernobl, while in Belarus over $13 billion is thought to have been spent between 1991 and 2003, with 22% of national budget having been Chernobyl-related in 1991, falling to 6% in 2002.
Resources needed: Money
Ways to Help: Donate to or volunteer with: Chernobyl Children's Project International, Friends of Chernobyl's Children
Embedded Images: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1b/Chernobyl_Disaster.jpg, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Kiev-UkrainianNationalChernobylMuseum_15.jpg
Embedded Videos: http://www.youtube.com/embed/vO0NjcLUXTQ
Social Networks: http://twitter.com/#!/Chernobyl
External Links: http://www.chernobyl-international.com/index.aspx
Organizations: Chernobyl Children's Project International, Friends of Chernobyl's Children, The Chernobyl Forum
People: Adi Roche, Mikhail Gorbachev
Causes: Operator error initially faulted, Operating instructions and design deficiencies found
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Name: West Africa Food Crisis
Kind: Food Shortage/Drought
Location: West Africa
Date and Time: Spring 2012 -
Human Impact: Regional food and water shortage affecting over 18 million people.
Resources needed: Money
Ways to help: Donate to or volunteer with: Oxfam America
Embedded Images: http://www.oxfamamerica.org/oxfam-images/women-in-garden-burkina-faso-11-june-2012/image_large, http://www.fao.org/typo3temp/pics/d0e1d9a1a6.jpg, https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.oxfamamerica.org/images/emergencies/west-africa-food-crisis/Oxfam-SahelCrisis-Infographic-050812.jpg
Embedded Videos: http://www.youtube.com/embed/fbCUUv-h7oI
Social networks: http://twitter.com/#!/Chernobyl
External links: http://www.oxfamamerica.org/emergencies/west-africa-food-crisis/
Organizations: Oxfam
People: Raymond C. Offenheiser
Causes: Regional Drought, Poverty, Climate Change
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== ORGS ==
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Name: Red Crescent
Kind: non-governmental, humanitarian
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
History: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Crescent#History_of_Movement
Contact Info: http://www.redcrescent.org/contact-us
Embedded Images: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Croixrouge_logos.jpg
Embedded Videos: http://www.youtube.com/embed/PEB2z8qACMU
Social Networks: http://www.facebook.com/RedCrossRedCrescent
External Links: http://www.redcrescent.org/
Crises: Iraqi Refugee Crisis
People: Mustafa Barzani
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Name: OxFam
Kind: International Aid Organization
Location: Active worldwide
History: Founded Oxford, 1942 with mission of providing food aid to occupied Greece
Contact Info: http://www.oxfam.org/
Embedded Images: http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/themes/oxizen/logo.png
Embedded Videos: http://www.youtube.com/embed/8nGQSV_D_Bk
Social Networks: http://twitter.com/#!/oxfam, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Oxfam/106024056095120
External Links: http://www.oxfam.org/en, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxfam, http://www.oxfamamerica.org/
Crises: West Africa Drought/ Food Crisis, East Africa Food Crisis, Sudan Crisis, Yemen Crisis
People: Raymond C. Offenheiser - President: Oxfam America, Karen Brown - Chair: Oxfam GB
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Name: World Food Programme
Kind: Humanitarian Agency
Location: Based in Rome, Italy
History: The WFP was first established in 1961[4] after the 1960 Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) Conference, when George McGovern, director of the US Food for Peace Programmes, proposed establishing a multilateral food aid programme. WFP was formally established in 1963 by the FAO and the United Nations General Assembly on a three-year experimental basis. In 1965, the programme was extended to a continuing basis.
Contact Info: http://www.wfp.org/contact
Crises: World Hunger, Sahel, South Sudan, Earthquake in Haiti
People: Ertharin Cousin (head), George McGovern (started), Josette Sheeran(2008-2012)
External Links: http://www.wfp.org/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Food_Programme
Embedded Images: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Official_WFP_logo.gif
Embedded Videos: http://www.youtube.com/embed/u-orDpbq3N4
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Name: Chernobyl Children's Project International
Kind: UN-accredited non-profit international development, medical, and humanitarian organization
Location: Cork, Ireland - New York, New York
History: Founded in Ireland in 1991 by Adi Roche in response to an appeal from Ukrainian and Belarusian doctors for aid.
Contact Info: Charity No. CHY 11 477 | Tel: +353 21 431 2999 | Irish Office - Ballycurreen Industrial Estate, Kinsale Road, Cork, Ireland | US Office - Northport Financial Center, 490 Main Street, Northport NY 11768, USA
Embedded Images: http://www.chernobyl-international.com/App_Themes/CCI/images/header/img_logo.gif
Embedded Videos: later
Social Networks: http://www.facebook.com/ChernobylChildrenInternational, http://twitter.com/#!/Chernobyl/
External links: http://www.chernobyl-international.com/index.aspx
Crises: Chernobyl disaster
People: Adi Roche
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== PEOPLE ==
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Name: Mustafa Barzani
Kind: Kurdish nationalist leader, and the most prominent political figure in the modern Kurdish politics
Location: Barzan, Ottoman Empire
Embedded Images: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Mustafa_barzani.jpg/280px-Mustafa_barzani.jpg
Embedded Videos: http://www.youtube.com/embed/t1jLwD-xnPY
External Links: http://www.meforum.org/220/the-last-years-of-mustafa-barzani
Crises: Iraqi Refugee Crisis
Organizations: Red Crescent
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Name: Josette Sheeran
Kind: Vice Chairman of the World Economic Forum
Location: United States
External Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josette_Sheeran
Embedded Images: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Josette_Sheeran_Shiner_Dept_State.jpg
Embedded Videos: http://www.youtube.com/embed/CdxVbUja_pY
Crises: Earthquake in Haiti, World Food Crisis, Gaza conflict
Organizations: World Economic Forum, World Food Programme
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Name: Adi Roche
Kind: Humanitarian
Location: Cork, Ireland
Embedded Images: http://www.businessandfinance.ie/files/2010/images/20100304113435_Adi-Roche.jpg
Embedded Videos: http://www.youtube.com/embed/BFkCCKWCRyk
Social Networks: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Adi-Roche/103118666395441
External Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Roche
Crises: Chernobyl disaster
Organizations: CCPI
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Name: Raymond C. Offenheiser
Kind: Humanitarian
Location: Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
Embedded Images: http://kellogg.nd.edu/about/images/offenheiser.jpg
Embedded Videos: http://www.youtube.com/embed/U_qufZf9iKo
External links: http://www.oxfamamerica.org/whoweare/oxfam-experts/raymond-offenheiser
Crises: West Africa Food Crisis
Organizations: Oxfam