0220 GMT June 30, 2022
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University of Toronto scholar Nada Moumtaz:
IRAN DAILY: What conditions have led to, as you observe in your book, the surge of charity worldwide in the most recent decades?
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By Mahdieh Qazvinian
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Santa is back to “sleighing” it on the ski slope.
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A 98-year-old English woman raised thousands of pounds for charity by cycling more than 500 miles for 80 days.
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A grandfather has raised over half a million pounds for charity by rowing unassisted across the Atlantic.
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People living in UK towns and cities are 25 times more likely to die from long-term exposure to poisonous air than a car crash, and those living in the south are at greatest risk, a charity has warned.
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Younger women with a family history of breast cancer should receive annual screenings to pick up the disease earlier, a British charity said.
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Young people are at a higher risk of having an asthma attack than any other age group living with the condition, the charity Asthma UK is warning.
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A British charity tasked with removing child abuse imagery from the Internet warned of a ‘horrifying’ increase in the amount of material it has had to take down over the past year.
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A London-based charity has rolled out plans to introduce sleeping pods to scores of homeless in the run-up to Christmas as record numbers of people have become rough-sleepers in the capital and other cities mainly as a result of government-sponsored cuts to social welfare budget.
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A woman who died from a rare genetic disease aged 22 has helped inspire a leading charity to provide a young adult support service.
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The Samaritans expects to receive hundreds of thousands of calls over the festive period, with figures revealing that one in three people who contacted the British charity on Christmas Day last year were seeking help with loneliness.
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Buy a goat to donate to a poor family...from a vending machine?
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Governments must provide ‘major’ investment in flood risk reduction to save coastal cities around the world, a charity said on Friday, as rising seas and sinking urban areas pose unprecedented threats to millions of homes.
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