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News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
U.S. officials admit that hurricane relief supply costs earlier this year were greatly overestimated by mistakenly counting single items as multiples.A General Services Administration estimate of $85 million in household goods intended for victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita should actually have been $18.5 million, the Federal Emergency Management Agency confirmed and CNN reported...
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CNN (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Federal officials vastly overestimated the value of hurricane relief supplies given away earlier this year, the Federal Emergency Management Agency reported Monday.
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OTB News (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Federal officials vastly overestimated the value of hurricane relief supplies given away earlier this year, the Federal Emergency Management Agency reported Monday. The original FEMA estimate of $85 million should have been $18.5 million, according to government figures.
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Beyond Katrina (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source: Direct Relief International (DRI) - USA Website: http://www.DirectRelief.org July 22, 2008 (Santa Barbara, Calif.) With Hurricane Dolly gaining power in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas coast, Direct Relief International has contacted its long-standing network of safety-net clinics...
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UAEinteract.com - News (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The Red Crescent Authority (RCA) has commenced preparations for launching a humanitarian relief programme in the drought-hit Ethiopia and Somalia. Dr Ali bin Abdullah Al Ka'abi, Chairman of the RCA, said the RCA would transfer funds for purchasing r
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CNN (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Federal officials vastly overestimated the value of hurricane relief supplies given away earlier this year, the Federal Emergency Management Agency reported Monday.
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Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Source: [b]CNN[/b] (CNN) -- Federal officials vastly overestimated the value of hurricane relief supplies given away earlier this year, the Federal Emergency Management Agency reported Monday. The General Services Administration, which manages federal property, over-counted cases of toilet pape...
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Myanmar (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Cutbacks to United Nations aid flights to Burma next month could hamper relief efforts that have already been criticized for failing to provide adequate food and water to many of the survivors of Cycl...
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Cutbacks to United Nations aid flights to Burma next month could hamper relief efforts that have already been criticized for failing to provide adequate food and water to many of the survivors of Cyclone Nargis, humanitarian groups said Friday.
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Myanmar (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Humanitarian groups say the ending of United Nations aid flights in Myanmar next month could slow a relief effort that already has come under fire for leaving many of the 2.4 ...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Humanitarian groups say the ending of United Nations aid flights in Myanmar next month could slow a relief effort that already has come under fire for leaving many of the 2.4 million survivors without adequate food and water.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hong Kong - Relief supplies intended for the victims of May's devastating Sichuan earthquake were left sitting at Hong Kong's port in a bureaucratic wrangle with Chinese authorities, a media report said Wednesday. The aid, comprising 1,000 tins of ba...
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Myanmar (Free subscription) | yesterday
Discrimination is evident in distribution of aid, with many victims of Cyclone Nargis still not getting adequate relief material being disbursed by international aid groups including the United Nation...
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Sisyphus Shrugged (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Huge math error in Katrina supply giveaway Federal officials vastly overestimated the value of hurricane relief supplies given away earlier this year, the Federal Emergency Management Agency reported Monday. The General Services Administration, which manages federal property, over-counted cases of toilet paper, plastic sporks and other cutlery, by mistakenly counting a single...
