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More Donated Product On Global Hand - September, 2004
New developments underway! This is a longer news article than usual.
Trade, Aid or Traid? Getting it right with the private sector - May, 2008
We are regularly being asked to broaden Global Hand's services. While retaining our traditional 'matching' activity, many have enquired if Global Hand can support the wider engagement between for-profit and non-profit entities in today's landscape of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and...
Iraq Update - July, 2003
A digest of the information available on Iraq in Global Hand's REACT section.
Global Hand at DIHAD, Dubai - April, 2008
“Collaboration is not an option, it is a necessity. Only by working together can we further our ability to alleviate suffering, and help to restore a measure of hope and humanity to a world sorely in need of both.” – Sir John Holmes, Under-Secretary General for UNOCHA at the 2008 DIHAD: Dubai...
Improved Funding Offering - January, 2004
Funding continues to remain the big issue for many of us as we look to the year ahead. So Global Hand has continued research, digging out further names of organisations that specialise in funding activities in the humanitarian arena.
Global Hand News - April, 2006
We are often asked what kind of activity we see on Global Hand. So we have drawn up a very brief overview which you, too, are welcome to use if it is helpful.
Update from Sichuan, China - July, 2008
More than a month after the quake that struck Sichuan province, there is much that Global Hand members can do to help. Currently, there are a reported five million homeless, almost 70,000 dead, and thousands more missing.
Blythswood and Birchwood: Saving lives in Serbia
“They were screaming in terror, badly cut, bruised and in shock. The inside of the car was full of freezing water ….”
Customs Information for the Tsunami Affected Countries - March, 2005
Important changes to tax exemption laws.
An ounce of prevention: The case for Disaster Risk Management - Oct 2008
One dollar spent in disaster prevention, the experts tell us, is worth four dollars spent in disaster response. Business companies have to find the math compelling...
European Organisations - September, 2003
Are you based in Europe? Working in Europe? Needing European contacts?
New Partnership with the United Nations - January, 2010
(14 January 2010) Today sees the launch of a new website which Global Hand has built for the United Nations: business.un.org
Uprooted and forgotten: The atrocities nobody cared about
For twenty years the world stood by with little interest as civil war wrought wanton destruction on Uganda. Why, then, would anyone care now that peace has finally been negotiated?
Legacy of Chernobyl: Radiation’s long fingered reach
Two decades after the tragedy at Chernobyl, a tired eeriness still hovers over parts of the Ukraine, the shadow of the nuclear accident still blighting the lives of local people.
A Sounder Sleep for Children in Eastern Europe: a match through Global Hand
After the fall of Romania's communist government, the world’s press got its first look at the horrendous conditions that Romanian orphans had been living in. Lack of basic care and attention left many of the children despondent, uncommunicative and emotionally crippled.
Money Matters - May, 2003
Money really does matter in the humanitarian aid business. Even if we deal in donated product, we still need to pay the bills. But where do we go to find funding?
Global Hand & the Tsunami Crisis: Product on Offer - January, 2005
Generous response from the international community.