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Environmental vulnerabilities are linked to every other problem in Haiti
… in an email that among the first things an outsider to Haiti will notice are "empty plastic bottles thrown anywhere and as a result drains clogged and water stagnates in certain … kinds are being made, she said, including efforts to recycle waste and reduce the use of plastic bottles. One manufacturer is now making stoves that use fuel from sugarcane waste rather … "to construct a plant that manufactures bricks, sheets for roofing, vases for plants from plastic and paper waste." That project still faces hurdles, she said, including finding land to …
CNEWA trustees meet Lebanese, refugees who benefit from their projects
… held several children aloft as the delegation traversed a tight corridor, lined with white plastic chairs in which sat dozens of patients. The clinic, which is open less than four hours …
Colombian diocese strives to serve influx of Venezuelan refugees
… prepare each plate. Portable tents provide shade while the Venezuelans, eating at picnic and plastic tables and chairs, share stories about how they ended up in a situation they never …
Religion and faith underlie three books
… a parent could provide. To compose Where the Past Begins , Tan rummaged through seven large plastic bins of memorabilia, including letters, newspaper clippings, and historical and family …
As Cape Town's water crisis nears 'Day Zero,' faith groups spring into action
… which featured practical water-saving tools and ideas. Goody bags included dense green plastic blocks participants were advised to drop in their toilet tanks at home to save water. …
Being a stand-in for God
… never far from one another. She turns and watches for me, even as she is occupied shaking the plastic bottle full of beans or pulling herself up on the chair or dumping the furniture from the …
Massacre of Rohingya Muslims and mass graves in Myanmar
… cousins. That's when he found his teammates half-buried in the mass graves. He also saw four plastic containers that turned out to contain acid. In the next days and weeks, other villagers … away. When he fled to Bangladesh, Karim removed the memory card from his phone, wrapped it in plastic and tied it to his thigh to hide it from Myanmar police. In the Bangladesh refugee camps, …
In Chile and Peru, pope to see effects of Latin America's migration
… 19. The camps, often consisting of makeshift wood-frame buildings covered with sheets of blue plastic, spring up around unregulated mines, where men work around the clock, sluicing cobbles …
Philippine church leaders urge Trudeau to take back toxic waste
… of toxic waste that Filipinos want returned to Canada. The shipments, labeled as recyclable plastics, arrived in batches from Canada in July and August of 2013, according to environmental …
The good that rises when the bottom falls out of life
… by black mold following months of torrential rains and humidity. Our plants, deck and even our plastic white lawn chairs were covered with the awful black stuff. We treated it repeatedly with …
I know there will always be kindness
… rice that steams up into their faces like heady incense. We pull into our driveway. A white plastic bag hangs on the doorknob. Fresh tomatoes, big ones, little ones, some as red as the … over?" If it's not her meat loaf, it's her chicken with herbs and spices from the Far East or plastic containers of magical chicken soup that could cure lower back pain, and it's always … the kindness that carries our bag to the car or opens the door for us at Chipotle or hangs a plastic bag of just-picked tomatoes on our doorknob. Yes, it's a big, bad world out there, but …
Nearly 3 weeks into Rohingya crisis, refugees still fleeing
… or in open fields. Near the camp of Balukhali, some were setting up tents made of bamboo and plastic along hillsides muddy from days of rain. Children walked uphill to capture rainwater …
Francis' visit to Cartagena draws attention to a city divided by income inequality
… as the eye can see, anticipating the popemobile. Enthusiastic yet peaceful, many are seated in plastic chairs they brought from home, or standing with their multicolored umbrellas on an …
Francis calls on Colombian war survivors to 'rise out of swamp of violence'
… with shorts, flip-flops, and some cowboy hats. Some carried banners while others stood on plastic chairs outside small restaurants and food stands to try to see the pope. Later on Sept. …
Venezuelans who take long ride to Chile find help at Santiago parish
… clothes, coats, trousers, sweaters and shoes. Local residents had brought cars full of black plastic bags of clothes. Ramirez let 10 people in at a time, and they could choose up to five …
The hippopotamus and me, and what unites us
… bathroom, I said, "Joanne, I just met Frank. He bought you these new clothes." I hefted the plastic bag over the top of the stall, and her hand came up to grab it. I said, "You can put your … back toward the stalls, Joanne emerged from hers. She had her new outfit on and carried the plastic bag full of her old clothes. She stuffed a huge wad of paper towels into the trash can. …
Fordham endures disputes over faculty health care, unionizing
… his glasses up sideways. It looks as if something has taken a bite out of the piece of the plastic temple that ought to cover the right hinge. The missing part broke off about five weeks …
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
… of growing up. If he were speaking today he would probably say that it is more radical than plastic surgery or even sexual reassignment surgery. It’s the opposite of a witness protection …
Maka Anguladze: ‘I think I was born here’
… took the buckets upstairs to take showers before school. We knew how to take a shower with a plastic cup. You have to put soap on and then we all use water this way because you don’t want to … dream of citizenship and a home of their own. She will still wash her hair with water from a plastic cup, as she does today. “Alex asks me how come I still do it this way every night. I tell …
'Duck and Cover' like Bert the Turtle in the 21st century
… baby seat trembling slowing across the vinyl floor. My hands shook as I unbuckled the plastic clasp of her tiny seat belt, scooped her out of her chair, crushed her to my chest and …