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HALUAN Volunteers Visit High Comm in Nairobi

Friday, 21 October 2011 19:00

Nairobi, 19 Oct 2011 – HALUAN’s second humanitarian team of the Life Line for Somalia mission visited the High Commission of Malaysia to Kenya in Gigiri, Nairobi today. All three activists of HALUAN were welcomed by the Second Secretary, who is also the Chief of Chancery, Mr S Kathiravan and Third Secretary, Mr. Zahari Ghazali.

Heavy Rain and Flood in Somalia

Monday, 17 October 2011 23:57

Dadaab, Kenya, 15 Oct 2011 – It had not rained here for more than two years. In fact, many of the Somali refugees’ children in Dadaab camp and Garissa town had never seen rain in their entire lives. On the fourth day of our mission to help the Somali refugees in camps near the Kenya-Somalia border, we headed along with our international NGO partners to a few nearby camps; the settlement for new refugees. Rain from the previous night caused flooding in many routes and settlements, which made it very difficult to deliver food aid.

“I Speak English,” says the dozen

Wednesday, 29 December 2010 22:28

Shah Alam, Dec 29 - A dozen schoolgirls put to good use their long December school holidays by brushing up on their English communications skill by doing the obvious – opening up their mouths.

Gaza Food Supplies Strangled

Monday, 14 June 2010 21:16

alt The amount and quality of food available to the estimated 1.5 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip has been severely restricted by more than 1,000 days of a near-complete blockade, states a UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report.

“Sixty-one percent of the Gaza population is food insecure,” said Sarah Leppert, FAO’s communications adviser for the West Bank and Gaza Strip. “There is a diverse range of foods available in Gaz; the problem is people do not have the means to purchase the food due to rising poverty and unemployment, now nearly 39 percent.”

HMM09 moulds minds of students and professionals

Thursday, 30 July 2009 14:29

A hundred odd students and intending students of tertiary institutions, along with House Officers, junior Medical Officers and allied health officers underwent a full-day training and workshop aimed at invigorating oneself while facing new challenges in study and career development.