12 Dec 2014

Tom Gilzean collects £50k this year for charity

Dressed in his trademark tartan trews and rattling a collection tin, Tom Gilzean is an unmistakeable sight in the Capital […]

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12 Dec 2014

Charity beard baubles are an unexpected Christmas hit

A quirky beard accessory created by an ad agency for its tongue-in-cheek Christmas cards has become an unexpected hit. Beard […]

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12 Dec 2014

Syria’s civil war has forced 3m refugees to flee why is the US accepting so few?

Since the start of the war in Syria in early 2011, the number of people fleeing the country has swelled […]

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12 Dec 2014

Europe should follow Germany’s example on Syrian refugees’

Hans ten Feld: This was very unpleasant news, obviously, and not something one would hope for and one would want […]

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12 Dec 2014

Uruguay a Poor country Receiving Syrian Refugees

uthorities confirmed that Uruguay is preparing to receive 42 Syrian refugees by next Thursday. The first five families will arrive […]

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12 Dec 2014

Canada speeding up Syrian refugee intake

OTTAWA – Canada has taken in 1,500 Syrian refugees, Immigration Minister Chris Alexander told the House of Commons Monday. The […]

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12 Dec 2014

The forgotten children of Turkey’s Syrian refugee crisis

ISTANBUL // Towards sunset on the busy north-west corner of Taksim Square, Nisreem, 7, and her raggedy gang of Dom […]

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12 Dec 2014

Syrian Kurdish refugees struggle to find affordable housing

ccording to UNHCR official statistics, 214,372 Syrians, many of them Kurdish, have fled to Iraq as a result of the […]

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11 Dec 2014

How to Tell If a Charity Is Legitimate

It’s the end of the year, and whether it’s the spirit of the season or the looming year-end tax deadline, […]

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11 Dec 2014

Syrian refugees: ‘We want to go home. That is our dream’

Sometimes the photographs you don’t take are as important as those you take. I’ve just been introduced to Aya, who […]

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