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Global Citizen Seeks up to $1 Billion for Six Sustainable ‘Impact’ Funds
Date: April 18, 2022
By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) – Global Citizen, an international non-profit aiming to help end poverty, said on Monday it plans to launch six funds of up to $1 billion each focused on generating environmental and social impact in the developing world. The Global Citizen Impact Funds aim to help plug a large gap in...
Pope Visits Italian Prison for Traditional Foot Washing Mass
Date: April 14, 2022
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis visited an Italian prison for a Holy Thursday Mass where he washed and kissed the feet of 12 inmates to commemorate Jesus’ gesture of humility towards his apostles the night before he died. Francis’ predecessors held the service in St. Peter’s Basilica or another Rome cathedral....
Gumgum Partners With the Ad Council on Support for Ukraine
Date: April 12, 2022
London, UK 12th April, 2022 — GumGum, a contextual-first advertising technology company, today announced that it is working with the Ad Council on a new disaster and crisis relief effort that encourages audiences to give financial donations to the Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund through GlobalGiving. GumGum is providing support to the Ad Council with GumGum...
Exhausted Volunteers Run Low on Supplies as Ukraine Refugee Crisis Drags On
Date: April 4, 2022
By Joanna Plucinska and Gerhard Mey MEDYKA/BORATYN, Poland (Reuters) – Five weeks after the start of the fighting in Ukraine, Kamil Prusinowski and his small band of volunteers are exhausted at their refugee shelter over the border in Poland. Supplies, funding and energy are all running low, Prusinowski said in a room filled with children’s...
Vienna’s Ukrainian School Scrambles to Cope With Influx of Children
Date: April 4, 2022
By Matteo Witt and Leonhard Foeger VIENNA (Reuters) – Volunteers running a Ukrainian Saturday school in Vienna have been scrambling to adapt as the number of children attending has more than tripled in a matter of weeks. The school is only too happy to accommodate the influx of refugee children fleeing the war at home,...
Equestrians Race to Save Horses Abandoned in Ukraine Warzones
Date: April 1, 2022
By Joseph Campbell LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – When bombs began to fall as Russian forces poured into Ukraine in late February, thousands of people fled for safety, leaving their homes and property behind. Those who could often took beloved pets with them. It wasn’t so easy for horse owners, though, who faced the agonising decision...