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New tribal health center services needs of regional Native Americans (Daily Sparks Tribune)

17 May 2008

Native Americans in northern Nevada now have easier access to health care services with the opening of the Reno-Sparks Tribal Health Center. The clinic hosted a preview for the community on Saturday, but will have its grand opening this Friday.

CCT in Philippines is ‘teaching people how to fish’ (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

17 May 2008

Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, but teach him how to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime. This principle is at the core of a new way of doing social assistance in Asia. Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs provide benefits to families on the condition that they invest in their children’s future.

Flushing Mom Arrested For Abandoning Baby (Queens Chronicle)

16 May 2008

(PJ Smith) Hua Zheng leaving the 109th Precinct in Flushing on Tuesday. She was arrested for abandoning her baby. A 31-year-old Flushing woman was arrested Tuesday after leaving her three-day-old infant daughter on the doorstep of a local minister.