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unusual facts about relief work



Violet Tillard

She provided relief in Germany as a nurse until October 1921 where she was transferred to famine-ravaged Buzuluk in Russia to help organise the relief work.


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Chicago Hearing

The organization, along with the International Committee of the Red Cross and the League of Red Cross Societies, was asked by the United Nations to organize relief work for Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip.

Demetrios Capetanakis

For a short period he went to Birmingham to help a team of the Friends Ambulance Unit prepare for relief work in Greece as soon as that country should be liberated from Nazi occupation; he was supported by Elizabeth Cadbury.

Giovanni Battista Foggini

In Florence, his masterpieces are his sculptural relief work in the Capella Corsini of the Chiesa del Carmine.

Hong Kong Family Welfare Society

The Society started out by being heavily involved with relief work after World War II.

Horse Show Fountain

John Michiels, an architect with Perkins and Will, designed the reconstruction while local sculptor Gerald Jaquard replicated Bock's relief work.

Irene Osgood Andrews

She began her career as agent for the Associated Charities at Minneapolis, Minnesota, and, in 1906 was appointed special agent for relief work in the American Red Cross in San Francisco, and factory inspector in Wisconsin.

J. Hemachandran

Amongst other things, J. Hemachandran campaigned for a ban on Coca-Cola and Pepsi sales in Tamil Nadu and coordinated relief work in the state after the 2004 tsunami.

John Andelin

His first numismatic relief work is a 2 oz silver portrait of Adam Smith, embedded with 2 bitcoins.

Siret River

During July 2010, Gheorghe Flutur, president of Suceava judet, told the Mediafax news agency his region was one of the worst hit in the country in the morning of the 29th as he co-ordinated local flood relief work in his stricken county.

Sue Ryder

At first Cavendish, Suffolk, was established by her following her relief work in Europe after the Second World War, as a home for concentration camp survivors and later to provide nursing care for the elderly and disabled.