Word: aid
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...after they helped carry out protests against Zimbabwe’s worsening economic and health crises. The death toll is edging toward a thousand people, and tens of thousands more have fallen ill. Zimbabwe has declared the events a national emergency. Fortunately, the Zimbabwean government has been open to aid from Western organizations. The World Health Organization (WHO), which has maintained a team in the region for several years, has been allowed to step up its efforts in light of the crisis. We are glad that this immediate aid from the WHO is being delivered to Zimbabweans. However, regardless...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith, the University as a whole has been mobilized to tackle unprecedented budgetary constraints. We recognize the new limits facing the College and commend the College for reiterating its commitment to the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative. Likewise, we encourage them to maintain their support of undergraduate life through the continued development of initiatives such as the Student Life Fund and social programming for freshmen, in addition to long-term projects such as House renewal...
Ellwood, who has made financial aid a priority during his time as Kennedy School dean, pledged that the amount the school allocates for student financial aid will be at least as much as last year.According to Ellwood, Kennedy School’s primary revenue sources are endowment payouts, degree program and executive education tuitions, gifts, and sponsored research, all of which will probably be negatively affected by the financial crisis...
...Working at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, Hartigan and Haller have long represented tenants against banks, but when they realized less than half of foreclosure cases reached the courts, they knew they needed to go out and find the missing tenants...
...downturn in real estate prices over the past year has hardly helped the owners of these rental units. According to Patricia A. Whiting, a clinical instructor affiliated with the Legal Aid Bureau, foreclosure evictions have spiked over the past months, after a 90-day waiting-period law on all foreclosures expired in August...