First Aid

School lunch aid to be streamlined (The Columbus Dispatch)

7 Jul 2008

Thousands of poor students in Ohio who need free school lunches will get to skip the paperwork this fall. Instead of requiring families who receive food stamps or are part of the Ohio Works First program to fill out forms and return them to their children's schools, districts already will know they are eligible and enroll them automatically.

US church group vows to lobby for aid-rights link (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

7 Jul 2008

Members of the United Methodist Church in the United States over the weekend vowed to lobby for human rights compliance to be made a condition for US military aid to the Philippines to compel the latter’s government to act on the extrajudicial killings and climate of fear and violence pervading parts of the country.

Mute deaf girl, 2, transformed into chatterbox after implant helps her to hear for first time (Daily Mail)

6 Jul 2008

A toddler who was born deaf has been transformed into a little chatterbox after doctors helped her to hear for the first time. Talisha Buckley-Walsh, 2, was fitted with a cochlea implant.