WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR THIS WEEK
Oxfam will end its Asian tsunami appeal today because the public has already helped the charity raise the GBP70m it needs to help the victims of last month's disaster:
http://society.guardian.co.uk/aid/story/0,14178,1400697,00.html
.... Special focus: the tsunami, one month on. We asked survivors, relatives and volunteers from 12 countries how they spent the day:
http://society.guardian.co.uk/aid/story/0,14178,1399667,00.html
.... As the Red Cross worker Ian Woolverton prepares to leave the tsunami-devastated Indonesian region of Aceh, truckloads of fresh water are finally getting through:
http://society.guardian.co.uk/aid/comment/0,14178,1399838,00.html
.... The world's richest countries need to make a "quantum leap forward" in helping Africa in 2005, Tony Blair said as he announced that Britain would spend GBP45m on mosquito nets to prevent malaria:
http://society.guardian.co.uk/aid/story/0,14178,1400632,00.html
.... Small businesses are to be offered cash incentives to introduce a payroll-giving scheme enabling staff to make regular donations to charity, the government has announced:
http://society.guardian.co.uk/charityfinance/story/0,8150,1398990,00.html
.... For more on fundraising and charity finance, visit our special report:
http://society.guardian.co.uk/charityfinance/0,8145,431062,00.html
.... The UN has backed a call from Oxfam to develop an accreditation system for aid agencies working in the tsunami disaster region:
http://society.guardian.co.uk/aid/story/0,14178,1399799,00.html
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