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  21 September Sep 2017 1446 one year ago

  Carbon Credits: cleaner and safer cooking stoves in the Maputo slums

  Traditional cooking stoves consume a lot of energy and emit harmful fumes, leading to high rates of premature deaths....

  Mozambique
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  20 September Sep 2017 0934 one year ago

  South Sudan: Pythagoras in the trenches

  What does it mean to study in South Sudan

  South Sudan
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  19 September Sep 2017 1114 one year ago

  AVSI at the UN on migrants and refugees

  On September 19, six minister of Foreign Affairs from Europe, Africa and Middle East gathered on the occasion of a si...

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  12 September Sep 2017 0940 one year ago

  Despite tension, Syrian refugees find sympathy in Lebanese villages

  While Lebanon’s impoverished border towns are generally more concerned with pre-existing hardships than those brought...

  Lebanon
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  8 September Sep 2017 1001 one year ago

  Syria and Iraq: Tagliani (Avsi), “the real challenge is restoring the social fabric".

  The conflict in Syria and Iraq is no longer front-page news, yet the armed conflict is ongoing in Raqqa, Homs and Dei...

  Syria
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  30 August Aug 2017 1553 one year ago

  Supporting displaced people in Tanganyka, DR Congo

  Two projects implemented by AVSI in the most affected region by the luba-pigmy conflict, currently ongoing in four pr...

  Democratic Republic of the Congo
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  30 August Aug 2017 1155 one year ago

  Violence against women: EU Ambassador to Burundi visits AVSI's project

  Wolfram Vetter, EU Ambassador to Burundi, meets the teachers involved in a project to fight violence against women in...

  Burundi
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  30 August Aug 2017 1026 one year ago

  Syria: things are slightly better but enormous problems remain

  Interview with Edoardo Tagliani, Middle East Programs Director, in charge of AVSI projects in the Middle East. With t...

  Syria
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  8 August Aug 2017 1538 one year ago

  South Sudan's healers on wheels

  The world's youngest country, central African South Sudan is now regarded as a failed state. A civil war began raging...

  South Sudan
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  8 August Aug 2017 1003 one year ago

  With help from church groups, Iraqis begin return to Ninevah Plain

  Iraqi Christian Amir, center, and his family pose in their house Aug. 4 in Qaraqosh, Iraq. The family, who fled Islam...

  Iraq
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  26 July Jul 2017 1724 one year ago

  From development aid to partnership programmes and job creation

  The term ‘development aid’ is no longer in fashion in Brussels. Burdened by its history and ineffective results, the ...

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  19 July Jul 2017 1404 one year ago

  New York, ECOSOC: AVSI presents a statement about Human Dignity, Women’s Emancipation and the importance of Partnerships

  The theme of the 2017 session of ECOSOC High-Level Segment is ambitious: “Eradicating Poverty in All its Forms and Di...