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After a week working for a nongovernmental organization (NGO) in rural Saurashtra, I enlist as odd-job man in a kitchen tent on the outskirts of Bhuj. Not an instinctive volunteer-type, I have no idea why I'm here, just that those images on TV and in the papers demanded more than the routine cash-and-clothes donation. But there's not much time for introspection at the kitchen, run by Girishbhai, a small businessman. We serve two meals daily to quake survivors from nearby camps, anywhere between 150 and 450 people a day. After a couple of days...
...were thinking of giving it to large, international relief groups such as the Red Cross or Direct Relief International, but ultimately decided to donate to a domestic NGO that had been present in Kutch since the earthquake happened and that would be better in touch with what was most needed in the area," Patni said...
Jeffrey D. Ballinger, currently working on a Turkish constitutional law project at the Kennedy School of Government, is a member of the Advisory Council of the Workers Rights Consortium. He is also the founder and Director of Press for Change, a consumer-information NGO which monitors worker rights issues in Asia...
PSLM is pushing for a non-governmental organization (NGO), in addition to PWC, to monitor Harvard's apparel-producing affiliates even though PSLM members said they also recognize the faults of NGOs...
...respect his freedom of speech, but he abuses that freedom," says a protest leader and immigration consultant Ky Ngo. "Exercising your First Amendment rights is one thing; causing dissension in your community is another," says Vietnam vet Larkin Kennedy, whose forearm is tattooed with the image of a Vietnamese lady he left behind. "I used to rent videos here, and I regret it deeply," says Linda Nguyen, a student at the University of California at Long Beach. She sniffs: "His videos were copies and so blurry...